Matta (; ) 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 are typically describ ...

(a '' selo''), the administrative centre of and one of two settlements, in addition to Kerdyugen, in Megyuryonsky Rural Okrug of

Megino-Kangalassky District Megino-Kangalassky District (; , ''Meŋe Xaŋalas uluuha'', ) is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic, Article 45 and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Rus ...

in the

Sakha Republic Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia, and the largest federal subject of Russia by area. It is located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of one million ...

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

. It is located from

Nizhny Bestyakh Nizhny Bestyakh (; , ''Allaraa Besteex'') is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Megino-Kangalassky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the east bank of the Lena River, opposite the republic's capital city of Yakutsk, ...

, the administrative center of the district. Its population as of the 2002 Census was 511.''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''

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