Petropavlivka rural hromada

Petropavlivka rural hromada (Ukrainian: Петропавлівська сільська громада) is a hromada in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Raion of Odesa Oblast in southwestern Ukraine. Population: 7,822 . The hromada consists of 8 villages:

• Faraonivka
• Furativka
• Miniailivka
• Starosillia
• Semysotka
• Oleksandrivka
• Petropavlivka (seat of administration)
• Pshenychne

Out of 8,811 inhabitants, 5,127 were Romanian-speaking (58.89%), out of which 5,122 called their language Moldovan (58.13%) and 5 called it Romanian (0.06%), while 2,004 were Ukrainian-speaking (22.74%), and 1,612 (18.30%) were Russian-speaking by mother tongue. The Petropavlivka rural hromada was the only hromada in the Odesa Oblast in which a majority of the people were Romanian-speaking, and declared their language as Moldovan, in the 2001 census, though the Reni urban hromada has a Romanian mother tongue plurality. The Moldovan linguistic identity population also represented a majority in four mostly Romanian-speaking hromadas of the Chernivtsi Oblast, including the Novoselytsia urban hromada the Boyany rural hromada, the Vanchykovetska rural community and the Mamalyhivska rural community, and a plurality in another one, the Mahala rural community.