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Piy Khemsky District

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Country
  
Russia

Administrative center
  
town of Turan

Sumons
  
7

Area
  
7,952 km²

Federal subject
  
Tuva Republic

Towns under district jurisdiction (urban settlements)
  
1

Cities/towns
  
1

Piy-Khemsky District

Piy-Khemsky District (Russian: Пий-Хе́мский кожуун; Tuvan: Бий-Хем кожуун) is an administrative and municipal district (raion, or kozhuun), one of the seventeen in the Tuva Republic, Russia. It is located in the north of the republic. The area of the district is 9,200 square kilometers (3,600 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Turan, Tuva Republic. Population: 10,092 (2010 Census); 11,431 (2002 Census); 14,236 (1989 Census). The population of Turan accounts for 49.4% of the district's total population.

Map of Piy-Khemskiy r-n, Tuva, Russia

References

Piy-Khemsky District Wikipedia