Bokhansky District (russian: Боханский райо́н; bua, Боохоной аймаг, ''Bookhonoi aimag'') is an administrative district of
Ust-Orda Buryat Okrug
Ust-Orda Buryat Okrug (russian: Усть-Орды́нский Буря́тский о́круг; bua, Усть-Ордын (Усть-Ордагай) Буряадай тойрог ), or Ust-Orda Buryatia, is an administrative division of Irkuts ...
of
Irkutsk Oblast
Irkutsk Oblast (russian: Ирку́тская о́бласть, Irkutskaya oblast; bua, Эрхүү можо, Erkhüü mojo) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the Angara, Lena, and Nizh ...
,
Russia
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, one of the
thirty-three in the
oblast
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.
[Charter of Irkutsk Oblast] Municipally, it is incorporated as Bokhansky Municipal District.
[Law #59-oz] It is located in the south of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its
administrative center
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is the
rural locality
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(a settlement) of
Bokhan.
[Law #49-OZ] Population: 26,897 (
2002 Census);
The population of Bokhan accounts for 20.4% of the district's total population.
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Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Formations of Irkutsk Oblast'
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Districts of Irkutsk Oblast