# Poltava Raion

Poltava Raion (Ukrainian: Полтавський район) is a raion (district) in Poltava Oblast of central Ukraine. The raion's administrative center is the city of Poltava. Population: 582,391 (2022 estimate).
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Poltava Oblast was reduced to four, and the area of Poltava Raion was significantly expanded. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 68,174 (2020 est.).

## Administrative division
### Current

After the reform in July 2020, the raion consisted of 24 hromadas:
* Bilyky settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Bilyky, transferred from Kobeliaky Raion;
* Chutove settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Chutove, transferred from Chutove Raion;
* Dykanka settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Dykanka, transferred from Dykanka Raion;
* Karlivka urban hromada with the administration in the city of Karlivka, transferred from Karlivka Raion;
* Kobeliaky urban hromada with the administration in the city of Kobeliaky, transferred from Kobeliaky Raion;
* Kolomatske rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Kolomatske, retained from Poltava Raion;
* Kotelva settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Kotelva, transferred from Kotelva Raion;
* Lanna rural hromada with the administration in the settlement of Lanna, transferred from Karlivka Raion;
* Machukhy rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Machukhy, retained from Poltava Raion;
* Martynivka rural hromada with the administration in the settlement of Martynivka, transferred from Karlivka Raion;
* Mashivka settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Mashivka, transferred from Mashivka Raion;
* Mykhailivka rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Mykhailivka, transferred from Mashivka Raion;
* Novoselivka rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Novoselivka, retained from Poltava Raion;
* Poltava urban hromada with the administration in the city of Poltava, transferred from city of the oblast significance of Poltava and retained from Poltava Raion;
* Shcherbani rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Shcherbani, retained from Poltava Raion;
* Skorokhodove settlement hromada with the administration in the urban-type settlement of Skorokhodove, transferred from Chutove Raion;
* Tereshky rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Tereshky, retained from Poltava Raion;
* Velyka Rublivka rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Velyka Rublivka, transferred from Kotelva Raion.

### Before 2020

Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of five hromadas,
* Kolomatske rural hromada with the administration in Kolomatske, retained from Poltava Raion;
* Machukhy rural hromada with the administration in Machukhy, retained from Poltava Raion;
* Novoselivka rural hromada with the administration in Novoselivka, retained from Poltava Raion;
* Shcherbani rural hromada with the administration in Shcherbani, retained from Poltava Raion;
* Tereshky rural hromada with the administration in Tereshky, retained from Poltava Raion.