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Sunzhensky District, Republic of Ingushetia

Sunzhensky District (Russian: Сунженский райо́н; Ingush: Шолжа шахьар, Šolža šaꜧar) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the four in the Republic of Ingushetia, Russia. It is made up of territory that was formerly part of the Sunzha Cossack Okrug . It is located in the eastern and central parts of the republic. The area of the district is 1,513 square kilometers (584 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Sunzha (called stanitsaOrdzhonikidzevskaya before 2016). As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 116,470, with the population of Sunzha accounting for 52.9% of that number.