Myrhorod Raion

Myrhorods'kyi Raion Миргородський район
Raion
Flag Coat of arms
Country	Ukraine
Region	Poltava Oblast
Established	July 3, 1923
Admin. center	Myrhorod
Subdivisions	List    — city councils    — settlement councils  — rural councils Number of localities:    — cities    — urban-type settlements 98 — villages    — rural settlements
Area
• Total	1,540 km2 (590 sq mi)
Population
• Total	40,900
• Density	27/km2 (69/sq mi)
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Area code	+380
Website	www.obladmin.poltava.ua

Myrhorodskyi Raion (Ukrainian: Миргородський район; translit.: Myrhorods'kyi raion) is a raion (district) in the central Ukrainian province of Poltava. The raion's administrative center is the city of Myrhorod, which has a separate administrative status within the oblast'.

Important rivers within the Myrhorodskyi Raion include the Psel and Khorol rivers. The raion was officially founded on July 3, 1923, from the old raion of Lubny. The raion's boundaries, in its current form, exist form January 8, 1966.

An important village in the raion is Velyki Sorochyntsi, in which, since the 1960s, takes place the Sorochynski Fair. On April 1 [O.S. March 20] 1809, famous writer Nikolai Gogol was born in Velyki Sorochyntsi. His short story The Fair at Sorochintsï made the small village, and its fair, world-famous.

Settlements

See also

• Subdivisions of Ukraine
• Poltava Oblast

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Administrative divisions of Poltava Oblast Administrative center: Poltava Raions Chornukhy Chutove Dykanka Hadiach Hlobyne Hrebinka Karlivka Khorol Kobeliaky Kotelva Kozelschyna Kremenchuk Lokhvytsia Lubny Mashivka Myrhorod Novo Sanzhary Orzhytsia Poltava Pyriatyn Reshetyliva Semenivka Shyshaky Velyka Bahachka Zinkiv Cities Regional Komsomolsk Kremenchuk Lubny Myrhorod Poltava District Chervonozavodske Hadiach Hlobyne Hrebinka Karlivka Khorol Kobeliaky Lokhvytsia Pyriatyn Zinkiv Urban-type settlements Category:Poltava Oblast