Chemerivtsi

Chemerivtsi is an urban-type settlement in Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast in western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Chemerivtsi settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The settlement's population was 5,431 as of the 2001 Ukrainian Census and 5,137Chemerivtsi was first founded in 1565 and it received the Magdeburg rights in 1797. It received the status of an urban-type settlement in 1959.Until 18 July 2020, Chemerivtsi was the administrative center of Chemerivtsi 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 Chemerivtsi Raion was merged into Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion.