Vovkovyntsi ( uk, Вовковинці) is an urban-type settlement in Khmelnytskyi Raion ( district) of

Khmelnytskyi Oblast Khmelnytskyi Oblast ( uk, Хмельни́цька о́бласть, translit=Khmelnytska oblast; also referred to as Khmelnychchyna — uk, Хмельни́ччина) is an oblast (province) of western Ukraine covering portions of the histo ...

in western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of

Vovkovyntsi urban hromada Vovkovyntsi ( uk, Вовковинці) is an urban-type settlement in Khmelnytskyi Raion (Raions of Ukraine, district) of Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Vovkovyntsi urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukr ...

, one of the

hromada A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=territorial community, translit=terytorialna hromada) is a basic unit of administrative division in Ukraine, similar to a municipality. It was established by the Government of Ukra ...

s of Ukraine. The settlement's population was 2,909 as of the

2001 Ukrainian Census The Ukrainian Census of 2001 is to date the only census of the population of independent Ukraine. It was conducted by the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine on 5 December 2001, twelve years after the last Soviet Union census in 1989.

and Vovkovyntsi was first founded in 1659, and it received the status of an urban-type settlement in 1957. Until 18 July 2020, Vovkovyntsi belonged to

Derazhnia Raion Derazhnia Raion ( uk, Деражнянський район, ) was one of the 20 administrative raions (a Raions of Ukraine, ''district'') of Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western Ukraine. Its Administrative centre, administrative center was located in t ...

. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Khmelnytskyi Oblast to three. The area of Derazhnia Raion was merged into Khmelnytskyi Raion.

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{{Authority control Urban-type settlements in Khmelnytskyi Raion Populated places established in 1659 1659 establishments in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 17th-century establishments in Ukraine Letichevsky Uyezd

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