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Tes Khemsky District

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Country
  
Russia

Administrative center
  
selo of Samagaltay

Rural localities
  
8

Founded
  
1923

Federal subject
  
Tuva Republic

sumon
  
7

Area
  
3,745 km²

Tes-Khemsky District

Municipally incorporated as
  
Tes-Khemsky Municipal District

Tes-Khemsky District (Russian: Тес-Хе́мский кожуун; Tuvan: Тес-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 south of the republic. The area of the district is 6,680 square kilometers (2,580 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Samagaltay. Population: 8,174 (2010 Census); 8,908 (2002 Census); 10,413 (1989 Census). The population of Samagaltay accounts for 39.6% of the district's total population.

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

References

Tes-Khemsky District Wikipedia