Ipatovsky District (russian: Ипа́товский 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
twenty-six in
Stavropol Krai,
Russia
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.
[Resolution #63-p] Municipally, it is incorporated as Ipatovsky Municipal District.
[Law #89-kz] It is located in the north of the
krai
A krai or kray (; russian: край, , ''kraya'') is one of the types of federal subjects of modern Russia, and was a type of geographical administrative division in the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR.
Etymologically, the word is relat ...
. The area of the district is .
Its
administrative center
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.
In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...
is the
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
of
Ipatovo.
Population: 69,268 (
2002 Census);
64,725 (
1989 Census).
The population of Ipatovo accounts for 41.5% of the district's total population.
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Districts of Stavropol Krai