Ivnyansky District () is an administrative district (
raion
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), one of the
twenty-one in
Belgorod Oblast
Belgorod Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (an oblast) of Russia. Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Belgorod. , the population is 1,540,486.
History
During the Princely ...
,
Russia
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.
[Law #248] Municipally, it is incorporated as Ivnyansky Municipal District.
[Law #159] It is located in the northwest of the
oblast
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. The area of the district is .
Its
administrative center
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In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgiu ...
is the
urban locality (a
settlement
Settlement may refer to:
*Human settlement, a community where people live
*Settlement (structural), downward movement of a structure's foundation
*Settlement (finance), where securities are delivered against payment of money
*Settlement (litigatio ...
) of
Ivnya
Ivnya (, ) is an urban-type settlement and the administrative center of Ivnyansky District of Belgorod Oblast, Russia. Population:
The name of the settlement comes from the trees, willow, in Russian "Ivnya" which grew up in a multitude of lakes ...
.
Population: 24,468 (
2002 Census);
The population of Ivnya accounts for 33.0% of the district's total population.
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Districts of Belgorod Oblast