Raion

//ɹaɪˈjɒn//

Synonyms for "raion"

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Translations

13 translations across 11 languages.

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Crimean Tatar

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  • rayon noun (administrative unit)

Czech

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  • rajón noun (administrative unit)

Estonian

1 entries
  • rajoon noun (administrative unit)

Finnish

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  • piiri noun (administrative unit)
  • piirikunta noun (administrative unit)
  • rajoni noun (administrative unit)

Georgian

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  • რაიონი noun (administrative unit)

German

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  • Rajon noun (administrative unit)

Ingrian

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  • raijona noun (administrative unit)

Polish

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  • rejon noun (administrative unit)

Ukrainian

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  • район noun (administrative unit)

Uyghur

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  • رايون noun (administrative unit)

Yakut

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  • оройуон noun (administrative unit)

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Below the oblasts come cities of oblast subordination and raiony. At the bottom we find rural and settlement soviets. We should note that certain very small cities will be subordinate to the raion level. In larger cities there will also be urban raiony. In the republics of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaidzhan and Moldavia, there are no oblasts and thus the raiony and cities here will be subordinate to the Republic level.

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Suffice it to mention that several thousand raion papers were replaced by “territorial administrations” organs, and that all transport papers were closed.

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In Kirgiziia, which had thirty-four registered mosques in 1957, there were in that same year thirty-one raiony with none, and the ones which did exist did not answer the needs of the believer population either from the purely numerical standpoint or from that of their geographical distribution, and not only in raiony with no mosque.

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In 1923 Soviet Ukraine’s 102 povity were replaced by 53 larger okruhy (sing. okruha), and its 1,989 volosti by 706 raions.

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