Raion

A raion (rayon forby) (pl. raiony) is a type o admeenistrative unit o several post-Soviet kintras (like a pairt o an oblast). The term, whilk comes frae French "rayon" (meanin "hinnycomb, department"),^[1] describes baith a kin o a subnaitional entity an a diveesion o a ceety, an is commonly translate in Scots as "destrict".^[2]