Zolotonosha Raion is araion (district) ofCherkasy Oblast, centralUkraine. Its administrative centre is located at the city ofZolotonosha. Population:135,445 (2022 estimate).[1]
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Cherkasy Oblast was reduced to four, and the area of Zolotonosha Raion was significantly expanded. Two abolished raions,Chornobai andDrabiv Raions, as well as the city of Zolotonosha, which was previously incorporated as acity of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Zolotonosha Raion.[2][3] The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was39,349 (2020 est.).[4]