Kosiv Raion
Косівський район | |
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Kosivskyi raion | |
Coordinates: 48°19′32″N 24°59′13″E / 48.32556°N 24.98694°E | |
Country | Ukraine |
Oblast | Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast |
Established | 1939 |
Admin. center | Kosiv |
Subdivisions | 5 hromadas |
Government | |
• Governor | Yaroslav Shynkaruk |
Area | |
• Total | 903 km2 (349 sq mi) |
Population (2022)[1] | |
• Total | 83,700 |
• Density | 93/km2 (240/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Postal index | 285250 |
Area code | +380 |
Website | Official website |
Kosiv Raion (Ukrainian: Ко́сівський райо́н) is a raion (district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of Ukraine. The city of Kosiv is the administrative center of the raion. Population: 83,700 (2022 estimate).[1]
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast was reduced to six, however, the area of Kosiv Raion was essentially unchanged.[2][3] The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 86,615 (2020 est.)[4]
Both before and after 2000, the raion consisted of five hromadas:[5]
The district is located in the Precarpathian region of Ukraine. The total area is 903 km² with 91,1 thousand inhabitants.
The climate is moderately continental.
The mountains go up to 1000 m above the sea level in the mountainous part of the raion. There are few big rivers among the mountains: Cheremosh — 80 km, Pistynka — 56 km, Rybnytsa — 54 km.
Archaeological finds show that the territory of the raion was inhabited from the Neolithic times. First written information about Kosiv is from 1424. Firstly, the town was called Rykiv, and only latter it was renamed to Kosiv. Other old settlements of the raion are Kobaky (15th century), Kuty (1448), Vyzhnii Bereziv (1412).
Famous people that were born, lived or worked in Kosiv district: