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Kizilyurtovsky District

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Country
  
Russia

Administrative center
  
town of Kizilyurt

Rural localities
  
16

Founded
  
1944

Federal subject
  
Republic of Dagestan

Selsoviets
  
3

Area
  
524 km²

Kizilyurtovsky District

Municipally incorporated as
  
Kizilyurtovsky Municipal District

Kizilyurtovsky District (Russian: Кизилю́ртовский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. It is located in the center of the republic. The area of the district is 524 square kilometers (202 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Kizilyurt (which is not administratively a part of the district). As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 61,876.

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Map of Kizilyurtovsky District, Dagestan Republic, Russia

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kizilyurtovsky District is one of the forty-one in the republic. It is divided into three selsoviets, comprising sixteen rural localities. The town of Kizilyurt serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.

As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Kizilyurtovsky Municipal District. Its three selsoviets are incorporated as thirteen rural settlements within the municipal district. The Town of Kizilyurt is incorporated separately from the district as Kizilyurt Urban Okrug, but serves as the administrative center of the municipal district as well.

References

Kizilyurtovsky District Wikipedia