Sokolsky District (russian: Сокольский райо́н) is an administrative district (
raion
A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is co ...
), one of the
forty in
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (russian: link=no, Нижегородская область, ''Nizhegorodskaya oblast''), is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Nizhny Novgorod. It has a population of 3,310,5 ...
,
Russia
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. As a
municipal division, it is incorporated as Sokolsky Urban Okrug.
[Resolution #670] It is located in the northwest of the
oblast
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. The area of the district is .
[Order #3-od] Its
administrative center
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In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...
is the
urban locality (a
work settlement) of
Sokolskoye.
Population: 14,139 (
2010 Census);
The population of Sokolskoye accounts for 44.9% of the district's total population.
History
The district was a part of
Ivanovo Oblast until 1994.
References
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Districts of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Districts of Ivanovo Oblast
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