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Country
  
Work settlements
  
1

Urban-type settlements
  
1

Federal subject
  
Selsoviets
  
18

Area
  
1,135 km²

Konyshyovsky District

Administrative center
  
work settlement of Konyshyovka

Konyshyovsky District (Russian: Конышёвский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-eight in Kursk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northwestern central part of the oblast. The area of the district is 1,135 square kilometers (438 sq mi). Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Konyshyovka. Population: 10,594 (2010 Census); 15,155 (2002 Census); 19,234 (1989 Census). The population of Konyshyovka accounts for 35.4% of the district's total population.

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Map of Konyshyovsky District, Kurskaya Oblast, Russia

Geography

Konyshyovsky District is located in the northwest region of Kursk Oblast. The terrain is hilly plain in the north and south, with more dissicating ravines in the east. The district lies on the Orel-Kursk plateau of the Central Russian Upland. The main river in the district is the Svapa River, in the Dnieper River basin. The district is 45 km west of the city of Kursk and 435 km southwest of Moscow. The area measures 32 km (north-south), and 48 km (west-east); total area is 1,135 km2 (3.8% of Kursk Oblast). The administrative center is the town of Konyshyovka.

The district is bordered on the north by Dmitriyevsky District, on the east by Fatezhsky District, on the south by Lgovsky District, and on the west by Khomutovsky District.

References

Konyshyovsky District Wikipedia


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