Ushitsa uezd

Ushitsa uezd Ушицкій уѣздъ
Uezd
Coat of arms
Location in the Podolia Governorate
Country	Russian Empire
Krai	Southwestern
Governorate	Podolia
Established	1795
Abolished	1923
Capital	Novaya Ushytsa
Area
• Total	2,840.26 km2 (1,096.63 sq mi)
Population  (1897)
• Total	223,312
• Density	79/km2 (200/sq mi)
• Urban	5.76%
• Rural	94.24%

The Ushitsa uezd^[a] was a county (uezd) of the Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire. The uezd bordered Letichev uezd to the north, the Mogilev uezd to the east, the Khotin uezd of the Bessarabia Governorate to the south, and the Kamenets-Podolsky uezd to the west. It included most of Kamianets-Podilskyi Raion of Ukraine. The district was eponymously named for its administrative center, Novaya Ushitsa (modern-day Nova Ushytsia).

The subcounties (volosts) of the Ushitsa uezd in 1912 were as follows:^[1]

At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Ushitsky Uyezd had a population of 223,312. Of these, 84.6% spoke Ukrainian, 11.4% Yiddish, 2.3% Russian, 1.2% Polish, 0.4% German and 0.1% Moldovan or Romanian as their native language.^[2]