Korosten Raion Коростенський район
Raion
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Coordinates: 50°53′23″N 28°39′45″E / 50.88972°N 28.66250°E / 50.88972; 28.66250
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Zhytomyr Oblast
Admin. center	Korosten
Subdivisions	13 hromadas
Area
• Total	10,897.6 km2 (4,207.6 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[1]
• Total	251,208
• Density	23/km2 (60/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Area code	+380

Korosten Raion (Ukrainian: Коростенський район) is a raion (district) of Zhytomyr Oblast, northern Ukraine. Its administrative centre is Korosten. The raion covers an area of 10,897.6 square kilometres (4,207.6 sq mi). ^{[citation needed]} It makes Korosten raion the largest by area in Ukraine. Population: 251,208 (2022 estimate).^[1]

On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Zhytomyr Oblast was reduced to four, and the area of Korosten Raion was significantly expanded. ^[2][3] Before the expansion, the area of the raion was 865.2 square kilometres (334.1 sq mi). The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 25,297 (2020 est.).^[4]

Economy

Agricultural Institute of Polesia is located in the village of Hrozyne.

Settlements

• Davydky, Horshchyk rural hromada
• Davydky, Narodychi settlement hromada
• Hunychi
• Khodaky
• Kupech
• Verkhnia Rudnia

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Korosten Raion.

• Find out Korosten District @ Ukrainian.Travel {en}