Lubny Raion

Lubny Raion (Ukrainian: Лубенський район) is a raion (district) in Poltava Oblast in central Ukraine. The raion's administrative center is the city of Lubny. Population: 184,616 (2022 estimate).^[1]

Lubny Raion Лубенський район
Raion
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Coordinates: 50°2′41.1072″N 33°2′49.8408″E
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Poltava Oblast
Established	March 7, 1923
Admin. center	Lubny
Subdivisions	7 hromadas
Government
• Governor	Oleksiy Dyadechko
Area
• Total	5,472.7 km2 (2,113.0 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[1]
• Total	184,616
• Density	34/km2 (87/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index	37510—37574
Area code	+380-5361
Website	Official homepage

On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Poltava Oblast was reduced to four, and the area of Lubny Raion was significantly expanded. ^[2][3] The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 30,260 (2020 est.).^[4]

Administrative division

Current

After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 7 hromadas:^[3]

• Chornukhy settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Chornukhy, transferred from Chornukhy Raion;^[5]
• Hrebinka urban hromada with the administration in the city of Hrebinka, transferred from Hrebinka Raion;^[6]
• Khorol urban hromada with the administration in the city of Khorol, transferred from Khorol Raion;^[7]
• Lubny urban hromada with the administration in the city of Lubny, transferred from Lubny Raion and the city of Lubny;

Before 2020

Lubny Raion in Poltava Oblast before 2020

Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of one hromada,^[8] Lubny urban hromada with the administration in Lubny. After the reform, the city of Lubny was merged into Lubny urban hromada, and part of the hromada was transferred into Myrhorod Raion.