Karymsky District () is an administrativeRegistry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the Inhabited Localities and municipalLaw #316-ZZK district (

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), one of the thirty-one in

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. It is located in the center of the

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and borders

Tungokochensky District Tungokochensky District () is an administrativeRegistry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the Inhabited Localities and municipalLaw #316-ZZK district (raion), one of the thirty-one in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. It is located in the centra ...

in the north, Shilkinsky District in the east,

Aginsky District Aginsky District () is an administrative district (raion) Agin-Buryat Okrug of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, one of the thirty-one in the krai.Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the Inhabited Localities It is located in the south of ...

in the south, and

Chitinsky District Chitinsky District () is an administrative district (raion), one of the thirty-one in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia.Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the Inhabited Localities It is located in the west of the krai, and borders with K ...

in the west. The area of the district is . Its

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is the urban locality (an

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) of Karymskoye. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 37,161, with the population of Karymskoye accounting for 35.1% of that number.

History

The district was established on January 4, 1926. It is named after the ethnic group of

Karyms Karyms () is an ethnic group in Russia which are métises of mixing Russians with Evenks and Buryats resulting from the lack of women among Russian settlers. In the 2002 Russian Census The 2002 Russian census () was the first census of the Russi ...

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* * * {{Use mdy dates, date=January 2013 Districts of Zabaykalsky Krai States and territories established in 1926 __NOTOC__