Horodok, Khmelnytskyi Oblast

City in Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine

Horodok Городок
City
Skyline of Horodok
Flag Seal
49°10′N 26°34′E / 49.167°N 26.567°E / 49.167; 26.567
Country	Ukraine
Oblast	Khmelnytskyi Oblast
Raion	Khmelnytskyi Raion
Hromada	Horodok urban hromada
Population (2001)
• Total	17,746

Horodok (Ukrainian: Городок) is a city in Khmelnytskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast (province) of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Horodok urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.^[1] Its population was 17,746 according to the 2001 census. Current population is 15,633 (2022 estimate).^[2]

Until 18 July 2020, Horodok was the administrative center of Horodok Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Khmelnytskyi Oblast to three. The area of Horodok Raion was merged into Khmelnytskyi Raion.^[3]^[4]

Notable people

Clara Lemlich - American union organizer, suffragist
Jan Paul Lenga - Priest, archbishop

Gallery

Ancient oak in downtown Horodok
The Smotrych River in Horodok
Local history museum
Church of St. Anthony

References

^ "Городецкая громада" (in Russian). Портал об'єднаних громад України.
^ Чисельність наявного населення України на 1 січня 2022 [Number of Present Population of Ukraine, as of January 1, 2022] (PDF) (in Ukrainian and English). Kyiv: State Statistics Service of Ukraine. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2022.
^ "Про утворення та ліквідацію районів. Постанова Верховної Ради України № 807-ІХ". Голос України (in Ukrainian). 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
^ "Нові райони: карти + склад" (in Ukrainian). Міністерство розвитку громад та територій України.