Country Belarus Municipalities Total: 36 + Minsk Area 1,943 km² Local time Monday 6:59 PM | Seat Minsk Website Official website Population 166,600 (2008) Voblast Minsk Region | |
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Governor Rusak Leonid Vjačeslavovič Weather 7°C, Wind NW at 6 km/h, 61% Humidity | ||
Minsk Raion (Belarusian: Мінскі раён, Russian: Минский район) is a second-level administrative subdivision (raion) of Belarus in the Minsk Voblast.
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Map of Minsk Region, Belarus
The administrative seat is the city of Minsk, administratively separated from the raion. The most populated town of the proper raion is Zaslawye.
Geography
The district is situated both in the middle of his Voblast and of the Belarus. It is crossed by the Svislach river and the towns around Minsk are part of its metropolitan area.
It borders, from north to south in a clockwise sense, with the districts of Vilejka, Lahoysk, Smalyavichy, Chervyen, Pukhavichy, Dzyarzhynsk, Valozhyn and Maladzyechna.
Subdivision
The district is divided into 20 rural councils (selsoviets) and 37 municipalities (including Minsk).
Rural councils
The 20 selsoviets are: Borovyasky, Ciyansky, Goransky, Khatezhinsky, Kolodishansky, Krupitsky, Loshansky, Lugovoslobodsky, Mikhanovichsky, Novodvorsky, Ostroshitsko-Gorodoksky, Papernensky, Petrishkovsky, Rogovskoy, Samokhvalovichsky, Senitsky, Shomyslitsky, Yuzufovsk, Zaslavsky and Zhdanovitssky.
Municipalities
The 37 municipalities counts one autonomous city (Minsk), one town (Zaslawye), one urban-type settlement (Machulishi), and 34 simple municipalities (Population as of 2009).