Korosten Raion ( uk, Коростенський район) is a

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 ...

(district) of

Zhytomyr Oblast Zhytomyr Oblast ( uk, Жито́мирська о́бласть, translit=Zhytomyrska oblast), also referred to as Zhytomyrshchyna ( uk, Жито́мирщина}) is an oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. The administrative center of the obla ...

, northern

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 inv ...

. Its administrative centre is

Korosten Korosten ( uk, Ко́ростень, ; historically also ''Iskorosten'' ) is a historic city and a large transport hub in the Zhytomyr Oblast (province) of northern Ukraine. It is located on the Uzh River. Korosten serves as the administrative ce ...

. The raion covers an area of . It makes Korosten raion the largest by area in Ukraine. Population: 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. Before the expansion, the area of the raion was . The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was

Economy

Agricultural Institute of Polesia is located in the village of

Hrozyne Hrozyne ( uk, Грозине) is a Ukrainian village in Korosten Raion (district) of Zhytomyr Oblast (province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provi ...

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Find out Korosten District @ Ukrainian.Travel
{{Authority control Raions of Zhytomyr Oblast 1923 establishments in Ukraine

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