Tokmak Raion ( uk, Токмацький район) was one of

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 co ...

s (

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, municipa ...

s) of

Zaporizhzhia Oblast Zaporizhzhia Oblast ( uk, Запорі́зька о́бласть, translit=Zaporizka oblast), also referred to as Zaporizhzhia ( uk, Запорі́жжя, links=no), is an oblast (province) of southeast Ukraine. Its capital is Zaporizhzhia. Th ...

in southern

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian invas ...

. The administrative center of the region was the town of

Tokmak Tokmak may refer to one of the following: *Tokmak, Ukraine, a city in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine * Tokmak, Uzbekistan, a city in Uzbekistan *Tokmok, a city in Kyrgyzstan, often also spelt Tokmak *Molochna, also referred to as Tokmak by Nogais. S ...

, which did not belong to the raion and was incorporated separately as a town of regional significance. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Zaporizhzhia Oblast to five. The area of Tokmak Raion was merged into

Polohy Raion Polohy Raion ( uk, Пологівський район) is one of the 5 raions ( districts) of Zaporizhzhia Oblast in southern Ukraine. The administrative center of the region is the town of Polohy Polohy (, ; russian: Пологи, transli ...

. The last estimate of the raion population was .

References

Former raions of Zaporizhzhia Oblast 1923 establishments in Ukraine Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform {{Zaporizhzhia-geo-stub