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Rutulsky District

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Country
  
Administrative center
  
selo of Rutul (ru)

Rural localities
  
40

Founded
  
1929

Federal subject
  
Republic of Dagestan

Selsoviets
  
11

Area
  
2,188 km²

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Municipally incorporated as
  
Rutulsky Municipal District

Rutulsky District (Russian: Рутульский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. It is located in the south of the republic. The area of the district is 2,170 square kilometers (840 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Rutul. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 22,926, with the population of Rutul accounting for 18.0% of that number.

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Map of Rutulsky District, Dagestan Republic, Russia

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Rutulsky District is one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan. The district is divided into eleven selsoviets which comprise forty rural localities. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Rutulsky Municipal District. Its eleven selsoviets are incorporated as seventeen rural settlements within the municipal district. The selo of Rutul serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal district.

Demographics

Ethnic composition (according to the 2010 Census):

  • Rutul people: 75%
  • Other: 25%
  • References

    Rutulsky District Wikipedia


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