Polohy Raion

Polohy Raion (Ukrainian: Пологівський район) is one of the five raions (districts) of Zaporizhzhia Oblast in southern Ukraine. The administrative center of the region is the town of Polohy. Population: 163,641 (2022 estimate).[2]

Polohivskyi Raion
Пологівський район
Raion
Flag of Pologivskyi Raion
Flag
Coat of arms of Pologivskyi Raion
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 47°30′2.29″N 36°22′52.95″E
Country Ukraine
Oblast Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Established1923
Admin. centerPolohy
Subdivisions15 hromadas
Government
 • GovernorYuriy Kovalenko
Area
[1]
 • Total6,762.5 km2 (2,611.0 sq mi)
Population
 (2022)[2]
 • Total163,641
 • Density24/km2 (63/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index
70600—70661
Area code+380 6165

The district was established in accordance with the resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine No. 807-IX of July 17, 2020. It included: urban hromadas: Tokmak, Huliaipole, Orikhiv, Polohy, Molochansk and the following rural hromadas: Bilmatska, Komysh-Zoryanska, Rozivska settlements, Vozdvyzhivska, Malynivska, Smyrnovska, Malotokmachanska, Preobrazhenska, Voskresenska, Fedoralni territories.

On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Zaporizhzhia Oblast was reduced to five, and the area of Polohy Raion was significantly expanded. [3][4] The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 38,636 (2020 est.).[5]

Administrative divisions

The hromadas are:

References
  1. https://www.zoda.gov.ua/files/WP_Article_File/original/000142/142760.pdf
  2. 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.
  3. "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  4. "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.
  5. 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.


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