Yavoriv Raion ( uk, Яворівський 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 ...

Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast ( uk, Льві́вська о́бласть, translit=Lvivska oblast, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna ( uk, Льві́вщина, ), ). The name of each oblast is a wikt:Appendix:Glossary#relational, relational adjective—in Englis ...

in western

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 center An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ...

Yavoriv Yavoriv ( uk, Яворів, ; pl, Jaworów; yi, יאַוואָראָוו , translit=Yavorov; german: Jaworiw) is a city in the Lviv region of western Ukraine which is around 15 kilometers from the Polish border. It is the administrative centre ...

. It was established in 1939. Its estimated population is . On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Lviv Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Yavoriv Raion was significantly expanded. One abolished raion,

Mostyska Raion Mostyska Raion ( uk, Мостиський район) was a raion (district) in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center was Mostyska. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which ...

, was merged into Yavoriv Raion. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was

Subdivisions

Current

After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 6

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: * Ivano-Frankove settlement hromada with the administration in 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 ...

Ivano-Frankove Ivano-Frankove ( uk, Івано-Франкове), formerly Yaniv, is an urban-type settlement in Yavoriv Raion of Lviv Oblast in Ukraine. It is located on the right bank of the Vereshchytsia, a left tributary of the Dniester. The Vereshchytsia ...

, retained from Yavoriv Raion; * Mostyska urban hromada with the administration in the city of

Mostyska Mostyska ( uk, Мости́ська, pl, Mościska, both in the ''plural''), is a small city in Yavoriv Raion, Lviv Oblast (oblast, region) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Mostyska urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Popula ...

, transferred from Mostyska Raion; *

Novoiavorivsk urban hromada Novoiavorivsk (, pl, Nowojaworowsk), alternatively transliterated Novoyavorivsk, is a city in the Yavoriv district, Lviv region of Ukraine. Novoiavorivsk hosts the administration of Novoiavorivsk urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. I ...

with the administration in the city of

Novoiavorivsk Novoiavorivsk (, pl, Nowojaworowsk), alternatively transliterated Novoyavorivsk, is a city in the Yavoriv district, Lviv region of Ukraine. Novoiavorivsk hosts the administration of Novoiavorivsk urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. I ...

, retained from Yavoriv Raion; *

Shehyni rural hromada Shehyni ( uk, Шегині, pl, Szeginie) is a village of Yavoriv Raion in Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Shehyni rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Located at the border with Poland, it is best known ...

with the administration in the selo of

Shehyni Shehyni ( uk, Шегині, pl, Szeginie) is a village of Yavoriv Raion in Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Shehyni rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Located at the border with Poland, it is best known ...

, transferred from Mostyska Raion; * Sudova Vyshnia urban hromada with the administration in the city of

Sudova Vyshnia Sudova Vyshnia ( uk, Судова Вишня) is a town in the Yavoriv district of the Lviv Oblast (region) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Sudova Vyshnia urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population is . The town ...

, transferred from Mostyska Raion; *

Yavoriv urban hromada Yavoriv urban territorial hromada ( uk, Яворівська міська територіальна громада, translit=Yavorivska miska terytorialna hromada) is a hromada (municipality) in Ukraine, in Yavoriv Raion of Lviv Oblast. The a ...

with the administration in the city of

, retained from Yavoriv Raion.

Before 2020

Map of Lviv Oblast highlighting Yavorivskyi Raion

Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of three hromadas, * Ivano-Frankove settlement hromada with the administration in Ivano-Frankove ; *

with the administration in Novoiavorivsk; *

with the administration in Yavoriv.

Demographics

According to 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.

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