Khivsky District (russian: Хи́вский райо́н) is an administrative
[Law #16] and municipal
[Law #6] district (
raion
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), one of the
forty-one in the
Republic of Dagestan
Dagestan ( ; rus, Дагеста́н, , dəɡʲɪˈstan, links=yes), officially the Republic of Dagestan (russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н, Respúblika Dagestán, links=no), is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia sit ...
,
Russia
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. It is located in the southeast of the republic. The area of the district is .
Its
administrative center
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is the
rural locality
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(a ''
selo'') of
Khiv
Khiv (russian: Хив, tab, Хив) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Khivsky District of the Republic of Dagestan, Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning ...
.
As of the
2010 Census, the total population of the district was 22,753, with the population of Khiv accounting for 11.7% of that number.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the
framework of administrative divisions, Khivsky District is one of the
forty-one in the
Republic of Dagestan
Dagestan ( ; rus, Дагеста́н, , dəɡʲɪˈstan, links=yes), officially the Republic of Dagestan (russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н, Respúblika Dagestán, links=no), is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia sit ...
.
The district is divided into eleven
selsoviet
Selsoviet ( be, сельсавет, r=sieĺsaviet, tr. ''sieĺsaviet''; rus, сельсовет, p=ˈsʲelʲsɐˈvʲɛt, r=selsovet; uk, сільрада, silrada) is a shortened name for a rural council and for the area governed by such a cou ...
s which comprise forty-two
rural localities.
As a
municipal division, the district is incorporated as Khivsky Municipal District.
Its eleven selsoviets are incorporated as sixteen rural settlements within the municipal district.
The ''
selo'' of
Khiv
Khiv (russian: Хив, tab, Хив) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Khivsky District of the Republic of Dagestan, Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning ...
serves as the administrative center of both the administrative
and municipal
district.
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Districts of Dagestan
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