Subdivision of Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine
Raion in Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine
Tiachiv Raion (Ukrainian: Тячівський район, Romanian: Raionul Teceu, Hungarian: Técsői járás) is a raion in Zakarpattia Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Tiachiv. Population: 183,756 (2022 estimate).[2]
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Zakarpattia Oblast was reduced to six, and the area of Tiachiv Raion was significantly expanded. [3][4] According to the 2001 census, the majority of the population of the Teceu district spoke Ukrainian (83.52%), with Romanian (12.45%), Hungarian (2.76%) and Russian (1.06%) speakers in the minority.[5] The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 175,048 (2020 est.).[6]
Romanian became in September 2012 a regional language in the village of Bila Tserkva; meaning it was allowed to be used in the towns administrative office work and documents.[7] This was made possible after new legislation on languages in Ukraine was passed in the summer of 2012.[7] The Constitutional Court of Ukraine on 28 February 2018 ruled this legislation unconstitutional.[8]
The raion has one city: Tiachiv, and five urban-type settlements: Bushtyno, Dubove, Solotvyno, Teresva and Ust-Chorna.[9]
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