Prokhorovsky District (russian: Про́хоровский 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-one in
Belgorod Oblast
Belgorod Oblast (russian: Белгоро́дская о́бласть, ''Belgorodskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Belgorod. Population:
History
At the turn of the 17th c ...
,
Russia
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.
[Law #248] Municipally, it is incorporated as Prokhorovsky Municipal District.
[Law #159] It is located in the north of the
oblast
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. 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
urban locality (a
settlement
Settlement may refer to:
*Human settlement, a community where people live
*Settlement (structural), the distortion or disruption of parts of a building
* Closing (real estate), the final step in executing a real estate transaction
*Settlement (fin ...
) of
Prokhorovka
Prokhorovka (russian: Про́хоровка) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.
;Urban localities
* Prokhorovka, Belgorod Oblast, a settlement in Prokhorovsky District of Belgorod Oblast
;Rural localities
* Prokhorovka, Irk ...
.
Population: 31,847 (
2002 Census);
The population of Prokhorovka accounts for 36.1% of the district's total population.
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Districts of Belgorod Oblast