Uzhhorod Raion ( uk, Ужгородський район, hu, Ungvári járás) is one of the

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 ...

s (

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s) of

Zakarpattia Oblast The Zakarpattia Oblast ( uk, Закарпатська область, Zakarpatska oblast) is an administrative oblast located in western Ukraine, mostly coterminous with the historical region of Carpathian Ruthenia. Its administrative centre is ...

in western

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. Its

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is located in the city of

Uzhhorod Uzhhorod ( uk, У́жгород, , ; ) is a city and municipality on the river Uzh in western Ukraine, at the border with Slovakia and near the border with Hungary. The city is approximately equidistant from the Baltic, the Adriatic and the B ...

. Over 30% of population in the raion speak the

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according to the latest census. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Zakarpattia Oblast was reduced to six, and the area of Uzhhorod Raion was significantly expanded. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was Some

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live in this raion. They live more precisevly in the area of

Poroshkovo Poroshkovo ( uk, Порошково; hu, Poroskő; ro, Poroșcovo) is a village in Uzhhorod Raion of Zakarpattia Oblast in Ukraine. Until 18 July 2020, Poroshkovo was located in Perechyn Raion. The raion was abolished and its territory was m ...

and are known in

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as .

Names

There are several alternative names used for this raion: hu, Ungvári járás, sk, Užhorodský rajón, german: Rajon Uschhorod, ro, Raionul Ujhorod, rue, Ужгородьскый район, russian: Ужгородский район.

Administrative division

The raion is divided into one town council and 35 village councils. Some village councils combine several individual villages. In 16 out 64 villages the Hungarian speaking population accounts for over 70%. There is a sizeable Roma community in the town of Serednie.

Urban-type settlements

Villages

References

Raions of Zakarpattia Oblast 1953 establishments in Ukraine Hungarian-speaking countries and territories {{Zakarpattia-geo-stub

Names

Administrative division

Urban-type settlements

Villages

See also

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