Arkharinsky District
Архаринский район | |
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![]() Khingansky Nature Reserve in Arkharinsky District | |
![]() Location of Arkharinsky District in Amur Oblast | |
Coordinates: 49°25′32″N 130°04′41″E / 49.42556°N 130.07806°E | |
Country | Russia |
Federal subject | Amur Oblast[1] |
Established | 4 January 1926![]() |
Administrative center | Arkhara[2] |
Area | |
• Total | 14,355 km2 (5,542 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 17,186 |
• Estimate (2018)[5] | 14,551 (−15.3%) |
• Density | 1.2/km2 (3.1/sq mi) |
• Urban | 55.8% |
• Rural | 44.2% |
Administrative structure | |
• Administrative divisions | 1 Urban settlements, 15 Rural settlements |
• Inhabited localities[2] | 1 Urban-type settlements[6], 48 rural localities |
Municipal structure | |
• Municipally incorporated as | Arkharinsky Municipal District[7] |
• Municipal divisions[7] | 1 urban settlements, 15 rural settlements |
Time zone | UTC+9 (MSK+6 ![]() |
OKTMO ID | 10605000 |
Website | http://www.arh-adm.ru/ |
Arkharinsky District (Russian: Архари́нский райо́н) is an administrative[1] and municipal[7] district (raion), one of the twenty in Amur Oblast, Russia. The area of the district is 14,355 square kilometers (5,542 sq mi).[3] Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Arkhara.[2] Population: 17,186 (2010 Census);[4] 21,068 (2002 Census);[9] 27,537 (1989 Census).[10] The population of Arkhara accounts for 55.8% of the district's total population.[4]
There is a wide floodplain by the Amur River in the district, to the northeast there is a terraced lowland plain, followed by the hills and plains of the Arkhara River basin, a tributary of the Amur River. To the north rises the southern end of the Turan Range.[11]