Novi Sanzhary Raion

Country Ukraine

Admin. centerNovi Sanzhary

Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET)

Postal index

39300—39373

Novi Sanzhary Raion Новосанжарський район
Raion
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Coordinates: 49°18′41.9718″N 34°27′31.0968″E / 49.311658833°N 34.458638000°E / 49.311658833; 34.458638000
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Poltava Oblast
Established	7 March 1923
Disestablished	18 July 2020
Admin. center	Novi Sanzhary
Subdivisions	List    — city councils    — settlement councils  — rural councils Number of localities:    — cities    — urban-type settlements 76 — villages    — rural settlements
Government
• Governor	Volodymyr Levytskiy
Area
• Total	1,300 km2 (500 sq mi)
Population  (2020)
• Total	32,824
• Density	25/km2 (65/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+02:00 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Postal index	39300—39373
Area code	+380-5344
Website	Official homepage

Novi Sanzhary Raion (Ukrainian: Новосанжарський район) was a raion (district) in Poltava Oblast of central Ukraine. The raion's administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Novi Sanzhary. The raion was abolished and its territory was merged into Poltava Raion on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Poltava Oblast to four.^[1][2] The last estimate of the raion population was 32,824 (2020 est.)^[3]

At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of three hromadas:^[4]

• Drabynivka rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Drabynivka;
• Nekhvoroshcha rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Nekhvoroshcha;
• Novi Sanzhary settlement hromada with the administration in Novi Sanzhary.