Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion (; ) is a raion (district) in Odesa Oblast of Ukraine. It is part of the historical region of Bessarabia. Its administrative center is the town of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi. Population:
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Odesa Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion was significantly expanded. Two abolished raions, Sarata and Tatarbunary Raions, as well as Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Municipality and part of Ovidiopol Raion, were merged into Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was
Administrative division
Current
After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 16 hromadas:
- Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi urban hromada with the administration in the city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, transferred from Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Municipality;
- Dyvisiia rural hromada with the administration in the village of Dyvisiia, transferred from Tatarbunary Raion;
- Karolino-Buhaz rural hromada with the administration in the village of Karolino-Buhaz, transferred from Ovidiopol Raion;
- Kulevcha rural hromada with the administration in the village of Kulevcha, transferred from Sarata Raion;
- Lyman rural hromada with the administration in the village of Lyman, transferred from Tatarbunary Raion;
- Marazliivka rural hromada with the administration in the village of Marazliivka, retained from Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion;
- Moloha rural hromada with the administration in the village of Moloha, retained from Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion;
- Petropavlivka rural hromada with the administration in the village of Petropavlivka, transferred from Sarata Raion;
- Plakhtiivka rural hromada with the administration in the village of Plakhtiivka, transferred from Sarata Raion;
- Sarata settlement hromada with the administration in the rural settlement of Sarata, transferred from Sarata Raion;
- Serhiivka settlement hromada with the administration in the rural settlement of Serhiivka, retained from Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Municipality;
- Shabo rural hromada with the administration in the village of Shabo, retained from Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion;
- Starokozache rural hromada with the administration in the village of Starokozache, retained from Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion;
- Tatarbunary urban hromada with the administration in the city of Tatarbunary, transferred from Tatarbunary Raion;
- Tuzly rural hromada with the administration in the village of Tuzly, transferred from Tatarbunary Raion;
- Uspenivka rural hromada with the administration in the village of Uspenivka, transferred from Sarata Raion.
The Village of Krutoyarivka (Moldova in Romanian) in the Starokozache rural hromada had a population of 1,933, out of which 1,820 spoke Romanian (94.15%), including 1,792 who called the language "Moldovan" (92.71%) and 28 who declared the language to be "Romanian" (1.45%), while 25 spoke Ukrainian (1.29%) and 84 Russian (4.35%).
Before 2020
Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of five hromadas,
- Marazliivka rural hromada with the administration in Marazliivka;
- Moloha rural hromada with the administration in Moloha;
- Serhiivka settlement hromada with the administration in Serhiivka (partially in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Municipality);
- Shabo rural hromada with the administration in Shabo;
- Starokozache rural hromada with the administration in Starokozache.
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