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Reni urban hromada (Ukrainian: Ренійська міська громада) is a hromada (municipality) in Ukraine, in Izmail Raion of Odesa Oblast. The administrative center is the city of Reni. Population: 35,156 (2022 estimate)
Until 18 July 2020, the hromada belonged to Reni Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Odesa Oblast to seven. The area of Reni Raion was merged into Izmail Raion.
Settlements
The hromada consists of 1 city (Reni) and 7 villages: Dolynske, Kotlovyna, Lymanske, Nahirne, Novosilske, Orlivka, and Plavni.
Population
The hromada was predominantly Moldovan and the Ukrainian language was rare. According to the 2001 Ukrainian census the population of the Reni raion in its boundaries at that time was 49% Moldovan/Romanian, 18% Ukrainian, 15% Russian, 8.5% Bulgarian and 8% Gagauz. Most of villages (five) are Romanophone (Romanian-speaking), as is most of the rural population, while there was one village populated by Gagauz and another one was populated by Bulgarians. The city of Reni was mostly (70.54%) Russophone, 13.37% Moldovan/Romanian-speaking, 12.5% Ukrainian-speaking, 1.52% Gagauz-speaking and 1.33% Bulgarian-speaking. The Reni urban hromada, whose boundaries are identical with those of the former Reni Raion, had 40,680 inhabitants in 2001, out of which 16,639 spoke Romanian (40.9%), 15,411 spoke Russian (37.88%), 2,955 spoke Ukrainian (7.26%), 2,751 spoke Gagauz (6.76%), and 2,688 spoke Bulgarian (6.61%). The Reni urban hromada, identical in its territory to the former Reni Raion, in its boundaries until 2020, including the city of Reni, had 40,680 inhabitants in 2001, including 19,938 self-identified Moldovans (49.01%), 7,196 ethnic Ukrainians (17.69%), 6,136 ethnic Russians (15.08%), 3,439 Bulgarians (8.45%), 736 Gagauz (1.81%) and 36 self-identified Romanians (0.09%).