Sokal Raion (, ''Sokal’s’kyi raion'') was a

raion A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is c ...

(

district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...

) of

Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast (, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna (, ), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast in western Ukraine. The capital city, capital of the oblast is the city of Lviv. The current population is History Name The region is named ...

(

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) in western

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. Its

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was the city of

Sokal Sokal (, ) is a city located on the Bug River in Sheptytskyi Raion, Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Sokal urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The population is approximately History The first written ...

. It had a population of 98,123 in the

2001 Ukrainian Census The 2001 Ukrainian census is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.Chervonohrad Raion Sheptytskyi Raion () is a Raions of Ukraine, raion (district) of Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It was known as Chervonohrad Raion () from 2020 until 2024. The center of the raion is the city of Sheptytskyi. Population: History From the 12th century, th ...

. The last estimate of the raion population was The Sokal Raion had a total of 106 populated settlements. Five were cities subordinate to the raion administration:

Belz Belz (, ; ; ) is a small city in Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine, located near the border with Poland between the Solokiya River (a tributary of the Bug River) and the Richytsia stream. Belz hosts the administration of Belz urban hromada, one of ...

, Sokal, Sosnivka, Uhniv, and

Velyki Mosty Velyki Mosty (, , ; ; ) is a city in Sheptytskyi Raion of Lviv Oblast (oblast, region) of western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Velyki Mosty urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population is History In the Crown of the ...

. One, Zhvyrka, was an

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, and were 101 villages. The raion bordered

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to the west,

Volyn Oblast Volyn Oblast () or simply Volyn (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in northwestern Ukraine. It borders Rivne Oblast to the east, Lviv Oblast to the south, Poland to the west and Belarus to the north. Its Capital city ...

to the north, and Lviv Oblast's

Radekhiv Raion Radekhiv Raion () was a raion (district) in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center was Radekhiv. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv ...

to the east, and

Kamianka-Buzka Kamianka-Buzka (, ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, of western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Kamianka-Buzka urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The city was previously known as Kamianka St ...

and Zhovkva Raions to the south. The raion was established in 1939 with the annexation of Western Ukraine to the

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. In 1951, the raion's administration was expanded to include territories ceded from the

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of the

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during the 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange. During the transfer, the cities of Bełz, Uhnów, Krystynopol, and

Waręż Variazh (; ) is a village (former town) in Sheptytskyi Raion (district) of Lviv Oblast (province) in western Ukraine. Its population is 825 as of the 2024 Census. The village is located close to the border with Poland, near the Polish village of ...

were transferred to Ukraine. Also Pawłowice village was placed in the Ukrainian territory after that exchange Until June 2019, Sosnivka was administratively subordinated to the city of Chervonohrad, and then transferred to Sokal Raion. At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of three

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s: * Belz urban hromada with the administration in the city of

; * Sokal urban hromada with the administration in Sokal; * Velyki Mosty urban hromada with the administration in the city of

. File:Belz Monastery of dominican.jpg, St. Nicholas

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Church in Belz. File:Chervonograd sancti spiriti.jpg, Holy Spirit Church in Chervonohrad, ca. 1750s. File:2015 Sokal, Ratusz 04.JPG, The city hall in Sokal. File:Варяж. Костел Святого Марка.jpg, St. Mark's Church in Variazh.

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* * {{Authority control Former raions of Lviv Oblast 1939 establishments in Ukraine Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform

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