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Yakymivka Raion ( uk, Якимівський район) was one of
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 (
district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...
s) of
Zaporizhzhia Oblast Zaporizhzhia Oblast ( uk, Запорі́зька о́бласть, translit=Zaporizka oblast), also referred to as Zaporizhzhia ( uk, Запорі́жжя, links=no), is an oblast (province) of southeast Ukraine. Its capital is Zaporizhzhia. The ...
in southern
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 ...
. The administrative center of the region was the
urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...
of
Yakymivka Yakymivka ( uk, Якимівка) is an urban-type settlement in Melitopol Raion of Zaporizhzhia Oblast (province) in east-central Ukraine, but was formerly the administrative center of Yakymivka Raion. Population: . Yakymivka was first mentione ...
. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Zaporizhzhia Oblast to five. The area of Yakymivka Raion was merged into
Melitopol Raion Melitopol Raion ( uk, Мелітопольський район) is one of the five raions (districts) of Zaporizhzhia Oblast in southern Ukraine under occupation by Russia. The administrative center of the region is Melitopol. Population: . On 1 ...
. The last estimate of the raion population was .


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Former raions of Zaporizhzhia Oblast 1923 establishments in Ukraine Ukrainian raions abolished during the 2020 administrative reform {{Zaporizhzhia-geo-stub