Reni Raion

{{short description|Former subdivision of Odesa Oblast, Ukraine}}

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| name = Reniyskyi Raion

| native_name = Ренійський район
Raionul Reni

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| settlement_type = Raion

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{UKR}}

| subdivision_type1 = Region

| subdivision_name1 = Odesa Oblast

| parts_type = Subdivisions

| parts_style = coll

| p1 =   1 — city councils

| p2 =   0 — settlement councils

| p3 = 7 — rural councils

| p4 = Number of localities:
  1 — cities

| p5 =   {{nowrap|0 — urban-type settlements}}

| p6 = 7 — villages

| p7 =   0 — rural settlements

| established_title1 = Established

| established_date1 = 1969

| established_title2 = Disestablished

| established_date2 = 18 July 2020

| seat_type = Admin. center

| seat = Reni

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| leader_title = Governor

| leader_name = Oleksandr Soshenko

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| unit_pref = Metric

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| area_total_km2 = 861

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| population_total = {{decrease}} 36117

| population_as_of = 2020

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| postal_code_type = Postal index

| postal_code = 68800—68831

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| area_code = +380 4840

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Reni Raion ({{langx|uk|Ренійський район}}; {{langx|ro|Raionul Reni}}) was a raion (district) in Odesa Oblast in south-western Ukraine, in the historic Budjak region of Bessarabia. Its administrative center was the city of Reni. The raion was abolished on 18 July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Odesa Oblast to seven. The area of Reni Raion was merged into Izmail Raion, but the Reni urban hromada has the same territory as the old Reni Raion.{{Cite news|title=Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ.|url=http://www.golos.com.ua/article/333466|access-date=2020-10-03|date=2020-07-18|website=Голос України|language=uk}}{{cite web |title=Нові райони: карти + склад |url=https://www.minregion.gov.ua/press/news/novi-rajony-karty-sklad/ |publisher=Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України |language=Ukrainian}} The last estimate of the raion population was {{Ua-pop-est2020|36,117|.}} In 2001, population was 40,680.

The raion was predominantly Moldovan and the Ukrainian language was rare. The raion of Reni, in its boundaries at that time, including the city of Reni, had 40,680 inhabitants in 2001, including 19,938 self-identified Moldovans (49.01%), 7,196 ethnic Ukrainians (17.69%), 6,136 ethnic Russians (15.08%), 3,439 Bulgarians (8.45%), 736 Gagauz (1.81%) and 36 self-identified Romanians (0.09%).[http://www.ukrcensus.gov.ua/eng/results/general/nationality/Odesa/ 2001 All Ukrainian population census results for Odesa Region] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090731133158/http://www.ukrcensus.gov.ua/eng/results/general/nationality/Odesa |date=2009-07-31 }}The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at http://pop-stat.mashke.org/ukraine-ethnic2001.htm The inhabitants of the former Reni Raion, which are identical to those of the current Reni urban hromada, were 37.88% Russian-speaking, 40.9% Romanian-speaking, 7.26% Ukrainian-speaking, 6.76% Gagauz-speaking and 6.61% Bulgarian-speaking.The Ukrainian census of 2001, language data by cities, at https://datatowel.in.ua/pop-composition/languages-raionsThe Ukrainian census of 2001, language data by localities, at https://socialdata.org.ua/projects/mova-2001/ Most of villages (five) are Romanophone/Romanian-speaking, while there was one village populated mostly by ethnic Gagauz and another one was populated mostly by ethnic Bulgarians.{{Cite book |last=Monica |first=Kaneff, Deema Heintz

|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/945629435 |title=Guest Editors' Note: Bessarabian Borderlands: One Region, Two States, Multiple Ethnicities |publisher=IUScholarWorks |oclc=945629435}} The city of Reni had 20,761 inhabitants in 2001, including 6,694 ethnic Ukrainians (32.24%), 6,126 self-identified Moldovans (29.5%), 5,589 ethnic Russians (26.92%), 1,012 Bulgarians (4.87%), 736 Gagauz (1.81%) and 22 self-identified Romanians (0.11%).The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at http://pop-stat.mashke.org/ukraine-ethnic2001.htm The city of Reni was mostly (70.54%) Russophone, 13.37% Romanian-speaking, 12.5% Ukrainian-speaking, 1.52% Gagauz-speaking and 1.33% Bulgarian-speaking.The Ukrainian census of 2001, language data by localities, at https://socialdata.org.ua/projects/mova-2001/ Most (69.41%) of the rural population of the raion was Romanian-speaking in 2001.The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at http://pop-stat.mashke.org/ukraine-ethnic2001.htm In 2001, this was one of two of Ukraine's raions (the other one is Novoselytsia Raion in Chernivtsi Oblast) in which those having a Moldovan identity are the largest demographic group.Ion Popescu and Constantin Ungureanu, Romanii dn Ucraina - intre trecut si viitor, vol. 1 (Romanii din Regiunea Cernauti), Cernauti, 2005, p. 259.The Ukrainian census of 2001, ethnicity/nationality data by localities, at http://pop-stat.mashke.org/ukraine-ethnic2001.htm It was also one of the three raions of Ukraine in which the Romanian language predominated; the other ones were mostly Romanian-speaking Hertsa Raion and Novoselytsia Raion.Ion Popescu and Constantin Ungureanu, Romanii dn Ucraina - intre trecut si viitor, vol. 1 (Romanii din Regiunea Cernauti), Cernauti, 2005, p. 259, 261.The Ukrainian census of 2001, language data by cities, at https://datatowel.in.ua/pop-composition/languages-raions

At the time of disestablishment, the raion consisted of one hromada,{{cite web |title=Ренійська районна рада (состав до 2020 г.) |url=https://gromada.info/ru/region/Одесская-область/Ренийский-район/ |publisher=Портал об'єднаних громад України |language=Russian}} Reni urban hromada with the administration in Reni.