Storozhynets Raion | district, second-level administrative division

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Storozhynets Raion (Ukrainian: Сторожинецький район, Romanian: Raionul Storojineţ) is a raion (administrative district) in Chernivtsi Oblast, (province) in the southwest of Ukraine. The administrative center of the raion is the town of Storozhynets. It borders with Romania from south, Vyzhnytsia Raion from west, Kitsman Raion from north, municipality of Chernivtsi and Hlyboka Raion from east. Population: 99,530 (2015 est.).

According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census, the raion's population was 95,295.[1] The ethnic composition of the district's population as reported by the census: 56,786 Ukrainians, 35,095 Romanians, 1,367 Russians, 307 Moldovans, and 1,740 other.

The Romanian population is concentrated in the south of the raion, especially around the town of Krasnoilsk (Romanian: Crasna).

The raion has 1 city (Storozhynets), 1 urban-type settlement (Krasnoilsk), 24 communes (selsoviets), and 13 villages attached to communes.