Baksansky District

Baksansky District Баксанский район (Russian) Бэхъсэн къедзыгъуэ (Kabardian) Басхан район (Karachay-Balkar)
Location of Baksansky District in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic
Coordinates: 43°41′N 43°32′E / 43.683°N 43.533°E / 43.683; 43.533Coordinates: 43°41′N 43°32′E / 43.683°N 43.533°E / 43.683; 43.533
Landscape near the selo of Verkhny Kurkuzhin in Baksansky District
Location
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Kabardino-Balkar Republic
Administrative structure (as of April 2014)
Administrative center	town of Baksan
Inhabited localities:
Rural localities	13
Municipal structure (as of April 2014)
Municipally incorporated as	Baksansky Municipal District
Municipal divisions:
Urban settlements	0
Rural settlements	13
Statistics
Area	829.58 km2 (320.30 sq mi)
Population (2010 Census)	60,970 inhabitants
• Urban	0%
• Rural	100%
Density	73.5/km2 (190/sq mi)
Time zone	MSK (UTC+03:00)
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Population of Baksansky District

2010 Census	60,970
2002 Census	114,888
1989 Census	96,259
1979 Census	86,171

Baksansky District (Russian: Бакса́нский райо́н; Kabardian: Бэхъсэн къедзыгъуэ; Karachay-Balkar: Басхан район) is an administrative and a municipal district (raion), one of the ten in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia. It is located in the north of the republic. The area of the district is 829.58 square kilometers (320.30 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Baksan (which is not administratively a part of the district). As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 60,970.

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Baksansky District is one of the ten in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic and has administrative jurisdiction over all of its thirteen rural localities. The town of Baksan serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as a town of republic significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.

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