Obluchensky District (russian: Облученский райо́н) is an administrative
[Law #982-OZ] and municipal
[Law #229-OZ] district (
raion
A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is co ...
), one of the
five in the
Jewish Autonomous Oblast
The Jewish Autonomous Oblast (JAO; russian: Евре́йская автоно́мная о́бласть, (ЕАО); yi, ייִדישע אװטאָנאָמע געגנט, ; )In standard Yiddish: , ''Yidishe Oytonome Gegnt'' is a federal subject ...
,
Russia
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. It is located in the north, east, and center of the
autonomous oblast. The area of the district is .
Its
administrative center
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.
In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...
is the
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
of
Obluchye.
Population: 29,035 (
2010 Census);
The population of Obluchye accounts for 32.3% of the district's total population.
Geography
Obluchensky District is located in the northwest region of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast; it is the largest district in the oblast. About 50 km of the
Amur River runs along the western border of Obluchensky. The district is dominated by mountain ranges such as the
Bureya Range with high
Mount Studencheskaya, the highest point of the oblast,
География Новой Земли
/ref> and the Lesser Khingan
Lesser Khingan (; russian: Малый Хинган, ''Maly Khingan'') is a mountain range in China's Heilongjiang province and the adjacent parts of Russia's Amur Oblast and Jewish Autonomous Oblast. , through which flow the upper and middle reaches of the Bira River. The Bira basin runs west-to-east through the middle of the district, and is relatively narrow. Most of the larger towns of the district are along the Bira. The southeastern area of the district lies on the lowlands and plains of the Amur itself. The district is about 150 km west of the city of Khabarovsk, and the area measures 90 km (north-south) by 190 km (west-east).Birobidzhansky District
Birobidzhansky District (russian: Биробиджа́нский райо́н, yi, ביראָבידזשאַן סקי דיסטריקט) is an administrativeLaw #982-OZ and municipalLaw #227-OZ district (raion), one of the five in the Jewish Auton ...
, Leninsky District, and Oktyabrsky District.
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External links
Obluchensky District on Google MapsObluchensky District on OpenStreetMap
{{Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Districts of Jewish Autonomous Oblast