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Agin-Buryat Okrug


Coordinates: 51°00′N 114°30′E / 51.000°N 114.500°E / 51.000; 114.500

Agin-Buryat Okrug (Russian: Аги́нский Буря́тский о́круг; Buryat: Агын Буряадай тойрог, Agyn Burjaadaj toirog), or Aga Buryatia, is an administrative division of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. It was a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Chita Oblast) until it merged with Chita Oblast to form Zabaykalsky Krai on March 1, 2008. Prior to the merger, it was called Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug (Аги́нский Буря́тский автоно́мный о́круг). Its administrative center is the urban-type settlement of Aginskoye.

While residents of the autonomous okrug (as of the 2002 census) identified themselves as belonging to 54 different ethnic groups, most of them consider themselves either Buryats (62.5%) or ethnic Russians (35.1%), the Tatars at 390 (0.5%) ending up as a distant third most numerous group in the region.


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