Tsumadinsky District (russian: Цумади́нский райо́н, Tsumadínsky rayón; av, Цӏумада мухъ, Ⱬumada muӿ) is an administrative
[Law #16] and municipal
[Law #6] district (
raion
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), one of the
forty-one in the
Republic of Dagestan,
Russia
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. It is located in the west of the republic. The area of the district is .
Its
administrative center
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is the
rural locality (a ''
selo'') of
Agvali.
As of the
2010 Census, the total population of the district was 23,345, with the population of Agvali accounting for 10.5% of that number.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the
framework of administrative divisions, Tsumadinsky District is one of the
forty-one in the
Republic of Dagestan.
The district is divided into thirteen
selsoviet
Selsoviet ( be, сельсавет, r=sieĺsaviet, tr. ''sieĺsaviet''; rus, сельсовет, p=ˈsʲelʲsɐˈvʲɛt, r=selsovet; uk, сільрада, silrada) is a shortened name for a rural council and for the area governed by such a cou ...
s which comprise fifty-eight
rural localities.
As a
municipal division, the district is incorporated as Tsumadinsky Municipal District.
Its thirteen selsoviets are incorporated as twenty-three rural settlements within the municipal district.
The ''
selo'' of
Agvali serves as the administrative center of both the administrative
and municipal
district.
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Districts of Dagestan
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