Novoselytsia Raion

Novoselytsia Raion
Новоселицький район
Raionul Noua Suliță
—  Raion  —
Location of Novoselytsia Raion in Urkaine
Country  Ukraine
Oblast Chernivtsi Oblast
Established 1940
Admin. center Novoselytsia
Government
 • Governor N/A
Area
 • Total 734 km2 (283.4 sq mi)
Population
 • Total 87,461
 • Density 119.2/km2 (308.6/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) is a raion (administrative district) in Chernivtsi Oblast, (province) in the west of Ukraine. The center of the raion is the town of Novoselytsia.

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

Total Ukrainians Russians Romanians Moldovans Other
87,461 29,703 1,235 5,904 50,329 290

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

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