Tymovsky District () 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 c ...
) of
Sakhalin Oblast
Sakhalin Oblast ( rus, Сахали́нская о́бласть, r=Sakhalinskaya oblastʹ, p=səxɐˈlʲinskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) comprising the island of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands in the Russian ...
,
Russia
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; one of the
seventeen in the
oblast
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.
[Law #25-ZO] Municipally, it is incorporated as Tymovsky Urban Okrug.
[Law #524] It is located in the center of the
Island of Sakhalin. The area of the district is .
Its
administrative center
An administrative centre 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 the administrative language, such as Belgiu ...
is the
urban locality (an
urban-type settlement
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) of
Tymovskoye.
Population: The population of Tymovskoye accounts for 48.5% of the district's total population.
Geography
The
Tym River
The Tym () is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai and Tomsk Oblast in Russia, right tributary of the Ob. The length of the river is , and it drains a basin of . The Tym freezes up in October to early November and stays icebound until late April to May. ...
passes through the district in a roughly south-north direction.
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Districts of Sakhalin Oblast
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