Chernobyl Raion

The Chernobyl Raion or Chornobyl Raion (, ) was one of 26 administrative raions (districts) of Kiev Oblast in northern Ukraine. After the Chernobyl disaster, the majority of the raion was contaminated, and many of its populated places were included into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, which is an officially designated exclusion area around the site of the disaster.