- Source: Svatove Raion
Svatove Raion (Ukrainian: Сватівський район, romanized: Svativskyi raion) is a raion (district) in Luhansk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. the administrative center of the raion is the city of Svatove. Population: 76,693 (2022 estimate).
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Luhansk Oblast was reduced to eight. The area of Svatove Raion was significantly expanded. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 33,302 (2020 est.).
Subdivisions
The raion contains seven hromadas:
Bilokurakyne settlement hromada
Kolomyichykha rural hromada
Krasnorichenske settlement hromada
Lozno-Oleksandrivka settlement hromada
Nyzhnia Duvanka settlement hromada
Svatove urban hromada
Troitske settlement hromada
Demographics
As of the 2001 Ukrainian census:
Ethnicity
Ukrainians: 91.4%
Russians: 7.3%
Belarusians: 0.3%