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Surgutsky District

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Coat of arms
  
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Administrative center
  
city of Surgut

Urban-type settlements
  
3

Founded
  
1924

Country
  
Russia

Cities/towns
  
1

Area
  
104,998 km²

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Federal subject
  
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug

Surgutsky District (Russian: Сургу́тский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the nine in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is located in the center of the autonomous okrug. The area of the district is 105,190 square kilometers (40,610 sq mi). Its administrative center is the city of Surgut (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 113,515 (2010 Census); 106,624 (2002 Census); 74,685 (1989 Census).

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Surgutsky District is one of the nine in the autonomous okrug. The city of Surgut serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as a city of okrug significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.

As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Surgutsky Municipal District. The city of okrug significance of Surgut is incorporated separately from the district as Surgut Urban Okrug.

References

Surgutsky District Wikipedia