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Khunzakhsky District

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Country
  
Russia

Administrative center
  
selo of Khunzakh

Rural localities
  
59

Founded
  
1929

Federal subject
  
Republic of Dagestan

Selsoviets
  
15

Area
  
551.9 km²

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Municipally incorporated as
  
Khunzakhsky Municipal District

Khunzakhsky District (Russian: Хунзахский райо́н; Avar: Хунзахъ мухъ) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. It is located in the western central part of the republic. The area of the district is 551.91 square kilometers (213.09 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Khunzakh. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 31,691, with the population of Khunzakh accounting for 13.4% of that number.

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Map of Khunzakhsky District, Dagestan Republic, Russia

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Khunzakhsky District is one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan. The district is divided into fifteen selsoviets which comprise fifty-nine rural localities. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Khunzakhsky Municipal District. Its fifteen selsoviets are incorporated as twenty-four rural settlements within the municipal district. The selo of Khunzakh serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal district.

References

Khunzakhsky District Wikipedia