English

Alternative forms

• rayon
• rajon

Noun

raion ‎(plural raions)

1. An administrative unit of some Eastern European and Asian states.
   • 2000, Roman Szporluk, Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union, Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, p 119:

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

Usage notes

The term describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city and is almost always translated as "district". A raion is usually an entity two steps below the national level.

Translations

Anagrams

• noria, oiran, on air, on-air

Japanese

Romanization

raion

1. rōmaji reading of ライオン
2. rōmaji reading of らいおん

Ladin

Alternative forms

• region

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin regio, regionem.

Noun

raion m ‎(plural raions)

1. region