Chay (russian: Чай; sah, Чай, ''Çay'') is a

rural locality In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry typically are describ ...

(a '' selo'') and the

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, L ...

of Borogonsky Rural Okrug in

Vilyuysky District Vilyuysky District (russian: Вилю́йский улу́с; sah, Бүлүү улууһа, ''Bülüü uluuha'', ) is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one of the t ...

of the Sakha Republic,

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, located from

Vilyuysk Vilyuysk ( rus, Вилюйск, p=vʲɪˈlʲʉjsk; sah, Бүлүү, ''Bülüü'') is a town and the administrative center of Vilyuysky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the Vilyuy River (left tributary of the Lena), about f ...

, the administrative center of the district. ''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic'' Its population as of the 2010 Census was 479;Sakha Republic Territorial Branch of the

Federal State Statistics Service The Federal State Statistics Service (russian: Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Росстат), ''Federal'naya sluzhba gosudarstvennoi statistiki (Rosstat)'') is the governmental statistics ...

. Results of the 2010 All-Russian Census
Численность населения по районам, городским и сельским населённым пунктам
(''Population Counts by Districts, Urban and Rural Inhabited Localities'') up from 478 recorded in the 2002 Census.

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*Official website of the Sakha Republic. ''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''
Vilyuysky District
* Rural localities in Vilyuysky District {{SakhaRepublic-geo-stub