Chernigovsky District
Encyclopedia
Chernigovsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion
) of Primorsky Krai
, Russia
; one of the twenty-two in the krai
. It is located in the southwestern portion of the krai. The area of the district is 1840.4 square kilometres (710.6 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Chernigovka. District's population: Population of Chernigovka accounts for 48.4% of the district's population.
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"...
) of Primorsky Krai
Primorsky Krai
Primorsky Krai , informally known as Primorye , is a federal subject of Russia . Primorsky means "maritime" in Russian, hence the region is sometimes referred to as Maritime Province or Maritime Territory. Its administrative center is in the city of Vladivostok...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
; one of the twenty-two in the krai
Krai
Krai or kray was a type of an administrative division in the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, and is one of the types of the federal subjects of modern Russia ....
. It is located in the southwestern portion of the krai. The area of the district is 1840.4 square kilometres (710.6 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Chernigovka. District's population: Population of Chernigovka accounts for 48.4% of the district's population.