Tonshayevsky District
| Tonshayevsky District Тоншаевский район (Russian) |
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 Location of Tonshayevsky District in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast |
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| Coordinates: 57°44′19″N 47°01′05″E / 57.73861°N 47.01806°ECoordinates: 57°44′19″N 47°01′05″E / 57.73861°N 47.01806°E | |
 Altsevo peat narrow gauge railway in Tonshayevsky District |
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| Location | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Nizhny Novgorod Oblast |
| Administrative structure (as of January 2016) | |
| Administrative center | work settlement of Tonshayevo |
| Administrative divisions: | |
| Work settlements | 3 |
| Selsoviets | 6 |
| Inhabited localities: | |
| Urban-type settlements | 3 |
| Rural localities | 77 |
| Municipal structure (as of August 2014) | |
| Municipally incorporated as | Tonshayevsky Municipal District |
| Municipal divisions: | |
| Urban settlements | 3 |
| Rural settlements | 6 |
| Statistics | |
| Area (administrative district) (January 2016) | 2,353.1 km2 (908.5 sq mi) |
| Population (2010 Census) | 20,219 inhabitants |
| • Urban | 48.9% |
| • Rural | 51.1% |
| Density | 8.59/km2 (22.2/sq mi) |
| Time zone | MSK (UTC+03:00) |
| Established | 1929 |
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Tonshayevsky District (Russian: Тонша́евский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the forty in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.Municipally, it is incorporated as Tonshayevsky Municipal District. It is located in the northeast of the oblast. The area of the district is 2,353.1 square kilometers (908.5 sq mi). Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Tonshayevo. Population: 20,219 (2010 Census);20,038 (2002 Census);19,588 (1989 Census). The population of Tonshayevo accounts for 22.6% of the district's total population.
The district was established in 1929.
The Altsevo peat narrow gauge railway is located in the work settlement of Pizhma, closed in 2015.
The Pizhemskaya narrow gauge railway is located in the work settlement of Pizhma.
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