Sarpinsky District (russian: Сарпи́нский райо́н; xal-RU, Сарпан район, ''Sarpan rayon'') is an administrativeDecree #137 and municipalLaw #308-IV-Z 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 ...
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, Russia. It is located in the north of the republic. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural locality (a '' village#Russia, selo'') of Sadovoye. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 13,796, with the population of Sadovoye accounting for 47.3% of that number.
Geography
The district is located in the northwest of Kalmykia, in the area of the
Yergeni
Yergeni (russian: Ергени; xal, Ergnin җirn zurһan shiir) is a hilly area in Russia. It is located in the southern corner of the East European Plain, mostly in Kalmykia, with parts in Volgograd Oblast and Rostov Oblast. The highest point o ...
Zavetinskiy District
Zavetinsky District (russian: Заве́тинский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #340-ZS and municipalLaw #242-ZS district (raion), one of the forty-three in Rostov Oblast, Russia. The area of the district is . Its administrative cente ...
of
Rostov Oblast
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Volgograd Oblast
Volgograd Oblast (russian: Волгогра́дская о́бласть, ''Volgogradskaya oblast'') is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia, located in the Volga region of Southern Russia. Its administrative center is Volgograd. The populati ...
in the west.Google Earth The area of the district is .
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rural administrations which comprise seventeen types of inhabited localities in Russia">rural localities
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. As a subdivisions of Russia#Municipal divisions">municipal division, the district is incorporated as Sarpinsky Municipal District. Its nine rural administrations are incorporated as nine rural settlements within the municipal district. The '' village#Russia, selo'' of Sadovoye serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal district.