Berezhany Raion
Berezhany Raion was a raion in the westernmost corner of Ternopil Oblast in western Ukraine, area traditionally known as Halychyna. The administrative center was the city of Berezhany, some away from Ternopil and away from Lviv. Berezhany was separately incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion. The Zolota Lypa river, a tributary of the Dniester tributary crossed the district from the north to the south. The river forms a large lake north of Berezhany. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Ternopil Oblast to three. The area of Berezhany Raion was merged into Ternopil Raion. The last estimate of the raion population was The area of the raion was. There were 54 villages and 1 town in the raion.
At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of three hromadas:
- Berezhany urban hromada with the administration in Berezhany, also included Berezhany Municipality;
- Naraiv rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Naraiv;
- Saranchuky rural hromada with the administration in the selo of Saranchuky.
Villages
Villages are ranked after size
- Naraiv - 1.799 inhabitants
- Shybalyn - 1.359 inhabitants
- Zhukiv - 929 inhabitants
- Rohachyn - 886 inhabitants
- Saranchuky - 880 inhabitants
- Verbiv - 865 inhabitants
- Kuryany - 831 inhabitants
- Vilkhovets - 765 inhabitants
- Bozhykiv - 670 inhabitants
- Urman - 622 inhabitants
- Bishche - 547 inhabitants
- Poruchyn - 503 inhabitants
- Trostianets - 428 inhabitants
- Rybnyky - 323 inhabitants
- Pidvysoke - 317 inhabitants
- Baranivka - 250 inhabitants
- Pavliv - 191 inhabitants
- Baznykivka - 116 inhabitants