Abyysky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion

Raion

A raion is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet countries. The term, which is from French rayon 'honeycomb, department,' describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is commonly translated in English as "district"...

, or ulus), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Russia

Russia

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. It is located in the northern part of the republic centered around the Indigirka River

Indigirka River

The Indigirka River is a river in the Sakha Republic in Russia between the Yana River and the Kolyma River. It is in length. The area of its basin is 360,000 km²...

 and borders with Allaikhovsky District  in the north, Srednekolymsky District in the east, Verkhnekolymsky District in the southeast, Momsky District in the south, and Ust-Yansky District in the west. The area of the district is 69400 square kilometres (26,795.5 sq mi). Its administrative center is the urban locality (a settlement

Urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement ; , selyshche mis'koho typu ) is an official designation for a type of locality used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union...

) of Belaya Gora. District's population: 4,750 (2002 Census

Russian Census (2002)

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); Population of Belaya Gora accounts for 50.7% of the district's population.