Zavitinsky District (russian: Завитинский район) is an administrative
[Law #127-OZ] and municipal
[Law #88-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
twenty
Twenty or 20 may refer to:
* 20 (number), the natural number following 19 and preceding 21
* one of the years 20 BC, AD 20, 1920, 2020
Music
Albums
* ''20'' (2nd Chapter of Acts album), 1992
* ''20'' (Cunter album), 2011
* ''20'' (Dr ...
in
Amur Oblast
Amur Oblast ( rus, Аму́рская о́бласть, r=Amurskaya oblast, p=ɐˈmurskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located on the banks of the Amur and Zeya Rivers in the Russian Far East. The administrat ...
,
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eig ...
. 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
Zavitinsk
Zavitinsk (russian: Завити́нск) is a town and the administrative center of Zavitinsky District in Amur Oblast, Russia. Population:
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Zavitinsk serves ...
.
[According to Law #127-OZ, the administrative-territorial structure of Amur Oblast matches its municipal structure. The laws dealing with the structure of the municipal districts serve as the registries of the inhabited localities of the administrative districts and list their administrative centers. For Zavitinsky District, Law #88-OZ is used.] Population: 20,198 (
2002 Census);
The population of Zavitinsk accounts for 71.9% of the district's total population.
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Districts of Amur Oblast