Polohy Raion (Ukrainian: Пологівський район) is one of the five raions (districts) of Zaporizhzhia Oblast in southern Ukraine. The administrative center of the region is the town of Polohy. Population: 163,641 (2022 estimate).
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Zaporizhzhia Oblast was reduced to five, and the area of Polohy Raion was significantly expanded by absorbing the , Huliaipole, Tokmak, Chernihivka, Rozivka Raions and most of the Orikhiv as well as the city of Polohy, which was previously incorporated as a city of Oblast significance. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 38,636 (2020 est.).
During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, part of the raion has been occupied by Russia.
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Administrative divisions
Number of settlements 240. Number of cities ― 5 (Huliaipole, Molochansk, Orikhiv, Polohy, Tokmak). Zhmerynka Raion includes 15 territorial communities. The raion contains seventeen hromadas:
Fedorivka rural hromada
Huliaipole urban hromada
Kamianka settlement hromada
Komysh-Zoria settlement hromada
Mala Tokmachka rural hromada
Malynivka rural hromada
Molochansk urban hromada
Orikhiv urban hromada
Polohy urban hromada
Preobrazhenka rural hromada
Rozivka settlement hromada
Smyrnove rural hromada
Tokmak urban hromada
Voskresenka rural hromada
Vozdvyzhivka rural hromada
Geography
Polohy Raion is located on the Dnieper Lowland and the Azov Upland. The area of the district is 6 762.5 km2.
Typical landscapes for Polohy Raion are steppes on chernozems. There are salt marshes. Steppe vegetation, due to plowing, has been preserved mainly on the slopes of river valleys and gullies.
The left tributaries of the Dnieper flow through the Polohy Raion.
The climate of the district is temperate continental with dry periods. According to the Köppen-Geiger climate classification, the climate of the Polohy Raion is humid continental with warm summers (Dfb).
There are deposits of brown coal, clay, kaolinite, sand, manganese ores in the Polohy Raion.
Notable landmarks
The National Historical and Archaeological Reserve "Kamyana Mohyla" have been created in the Polohy Raion.
Transport
Polohy Raion is crossed by railways and highways. The largest transport hubs Tokmak and Polohy, through which roads pass in the direction of Zaporizhzhia.