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Novoselytsky Raion

Novoselytsia Raion
Новоселицький район (Ukrainian)
Raionul Noua Suliță (Romanian)
Raion
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Coat of arms of Novoselytsia Raion
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Country  Ukraine
Region Chernivtsi Oblast
Established 1940
Admin. center Novoselytsia
Subdivisions
Government
 • Governor N/A
Area
 • Total 734 km2 (283 sq mi)
Population
 • Total 87,461
 • Density 120/km2 (310/sq mi)
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 • Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Postal index 604XX
Area code 380-3733X
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Novoselytsia Raion (Ukrainian: Новоселицький район, Romanian: Raionul Noua Suliță pronounced [raˈjonul ˈnowa ˈsulit͡sə]) is a raion (administrative district) in Chernivtsi Oblast, (province) in the west of Ukraine. The center of the raion is the town of Novoselytsia.

From 1775 to 1918, Bukovina was an administrative division of the Habsburg Monarchy, and a province of Austria–Hungary (Austrian half). After World War I, Bucovina became part of Romania. In 1940, the northern half of Bucovina was annexed by the Soviet Union.

According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census, the raion's population was 87,241. The ethnical composition was as follows:

Sofia Rotaru was born in Marshintsy, one of the Romanian speaking villages of Novoselytskyi Raion.

Tarasivtsi village in the raion is notable as the only place in Ukraine where the Moldovan (Romanian) language has been designated as a regional language. This occurred after Ukraine permitted regional languages to be designated in August 2012 .

Novoselytsia Raion has 1 town and 30 communes:

Of these, Boiany, Chornivka, Mahala, Sloboda, Pripruttia, Toporivtsi and Zelenyi Hai are in the historical region of Bukovina, while the remainder are in Bessarabia.



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