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Kurilsky District

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Coat of arms
  
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Federal subject
  
Sakhalin Oblast

Cities/towns
  
1

Area
  
5,146 km²

Country
  
Russia

Administrative center
  
town of Kurilsk

Rural localities
  
6

Kurilsky District

Kurilsky District (Russian: Кури́льский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion) of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia; one of the seventeen in the oblast. Municipally, it is incorporated as Kurilsky Urban Okrug. It is located on the central Kuril Islands southeast of the Island of Sakhalin. The area of the district is 5,145.9 square kilometers (1,986.8 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Kurilsk. Population: 7,359 (2010 Census); 7,108 (2002 Census); 10,498 (1989 Census). The population of Kurilsk accounts for 28.1% of the district's total population.

Map of Kurilskiy r-n, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia

References

Kurilsky District Wikipedia