Korosten Raion

Subdivision of Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine

Raion in Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine

Korosten Raion Коростенський район
Raion
Coat of arms
50°53′23″N 28°39′45″E / 50.88972°N 28.66250°E / 50.88972; 28.66250
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Zhytomyr Oblast
Admin. center	Korosten
Subdivisions	13 hromadas
Area
• Total	10,897.6 km² (4,207.6 sq mi)
Population (2022)^[1]
• Total	251,208
• Density	23/km² (60/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Area code	+380

Korosten Raion (Ukrainian: Коростенський район) is a raion (district) of Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine. Its administrative centre is Korosten. The raion covers an area of 10,897.6 square kilometres (4,207.6 sq mi). ^{[citation needed]} It makes Korosten raion the largest by area in Ukraine. Population: 251,208 (2022 estimate).^[1]

On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Zhytomyr Oblast was reduced to four, and the area of Korosten Raion was significantly expanded. ^[2]^[3] Before the expansion, the area of the raion was 865.2 square kilometres (334.1 sq mi). The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 25,297 (2020 est.).^[4]

Economy

Agricultural Institute of Polesia is located in the village of Hrozyne.

Settlements

References

^ ^a ^b Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
^ "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.