Synelnykove Raion (Ukrainian: Синельниківський район) is a raion (district) of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, southeastern-central Ukraine.
[2] On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Synelnykove Raion was significantly expanded.
Four abolished raions, Mezhova, Petropavlivka, Pokrovske, and Vasylkivka Raions, as well as the cities of Pershotravensk (later renamed to Shakhtarske) and Synelnykove, which were previously incorporated as cities of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Synelnykove Raion.
[3][4] The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was 36,845 (2020 est.).
[5] After the reform in July 2020, the raion consists of 19 hromadas:[4] Before the 2020 reform, the raion consisted of five hromadas:[12]