Uman Raion is a raion

Raion

A raion is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet countries. The term, which is from French rayon 'honeycomb, department,' describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is commonly translated in English as "district"...

 (district

District

Districts are a type of administrative division, in some countries managed by a local government. They vary greatly in size, spanning entire regions or counties, several municipalities, or subdivisions of municipalities.-Austria:...

) in the westernmost corner of Cherkasy Oblast

Cherkasy Oblast

Cherkasy Oblast is an oblast of central Ukraine located along the Dnieper River. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Cherkasy).-Geography:...

 (province

Oblast

Oblast is a type of administrative division in Slavic countries, including some countries of the former Soviet Union. The word "oblast" is a loanword in English, but it is nevertheless often translated as "area", "zone", "province", or "region"...

) of central Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

. Its administrative center is Uman

Uman

Uman is a city located in the Cherkasy Oblast in central Ukraine, to the east of Vinnytsia. The city rests on the banks of the Umanka River at around , and serves as the self-governing administrative center of the Umanskyi Raion ....

 with 88,730 inhabitants.

Uman Raion, the 4th largest in Cherkasy Oblast, covers 1.394,7 km² with population density of 35.7 p/km² and a population of 49,800 (2005). The head of district state administration (2006) is Petro Hryhorenko. Telephone code for the district is +380-4744. Postal codes for district settlements range within 20300 - 20399.

Settlements

The city of Uman is the administrative center of the Umanskyi Raion, but the city is not subordinate to the raion administration, but instead is directly subordinate to the oblast administration.

The Uman Raion includes 1 urban-type settlement and 52 rural settlements. Some of the raion's settlements include:

Babanka Babanka Babanka is an urban-type settlement in Cherkasy Oblast of Ukraine. Population is 2,541....  - 2,541 residents, urban type settlement Kolodyste - 2,054 residents, village Stari Babany - 1,859 residents, village Palanka - 1,608 residents, village Horodnytsia - 1,146 residents, village Ryzhavka - 1,025 residents, village Tanske - 980 residents, village Ostrivets - 458 residents, village Zatyshok - 413 residents, village

Stepkivka - 435 residents, village Antonivka - 637 residents, village Apolyanka - 578 residents, village Berestovets - 853 residents, village Korzhova - 117 residents, village Dubova - 589 residents, village Vilshanka - 215 residents, village Vilshanka-Slobidka - 285 residents, village Cherpovody - 784 residents, village Tomashivka - 671 residents, village

Ukraine's two the most famous granite

Granite

Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...

 deposits Starobabanske and Tanske are located in the raion. The first one in Stari Babany a few km north east of Uman and the second in the village of Tanske. Their granite production is widely exported.