Chornukhy Raion

Former subdivision of Poltava Oblast, Ukraine

Raion in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine

Chornukhy Raion Чорнухинський район
Raion
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Coordinates: 50°15′48.9852″N 32°55′58.0614″E / 50.263607000°N 32.932794833°E / 50.263607000; 32.932794833
Country	Ukraine
Region	Poltava Oblast
Established	7 March 1923
Disestablished	18 July 2020
Admin. center	Chornukhy
Subdivisions	List — city councils — settlement councils — rural councils Number of localities: — cities — urban-type settlements 41 — villages — rural settlements
Government
• Governor	Borys Lysenko
Area
• Total	682 km² (263 sq mi)
Population (2020)
• Total	10,568
• Density	15/km² (40/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Area code	+380
Website	Official homepage

Chornukhy Raion (Ukrainian: Чорнухинський район; translit.: Chornukhyns'kyi Raion) was a raion (district) in Poltava Oblast in central Ukraine. The raion's administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Chornukhy. The raion was abolished and its territory was merged into Lubny Raion on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Poltava Oblast to four.^[1]^[2] The last estimate of the raion population was 10,568 (2020 est.)^[3].

Important rivers within the Dykanskyi Raion included the Vorskla and the Orzhytsia rivers.

At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of one hromada,^[4] Chornukhy settlement hromada with the administration in Chornukhy.

Settlements

Bohodarivka

Chornukhy

Kharsiky

References

^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2020 року / Population of Ukraine Number of Existing as of January 1, 2020 (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2023.
^ "Чорнухинська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.)" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.