Valka district was an administrative division

Districts of Latvia

||Before July 1, 2009 Latvia was divided into 26 districts and 7 cities , indicated with asterisks:...

 of Latvia

Latvia

Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

, located in Vidzeme

Vidzeme

Vidzeme is one of the historical and cultural regions of Latvia. Literally meaning "the Middle Land" it is situated in north-central Latvia north of the Daugava River...

 region, in the country's north-east. The district's area was 2441 km². The population was 31,314 inhabitants in 2008.
The district contained 4 towns and 17 parishes. The towns are: Valka

Valka

Valka is a town in northern Latvia, on the border with Estonia.Valka and the Estonian town Valga are twins, separated by the Estonian/Latvian border but using the slogan "One Town, Two States". The border dividing the Livonian town of Walk was marked out in 1920 by an international jury headed by...

 (6459), Smiltene

Smiltene

Smiltene is a town in the Vidzeme region of in northern Latvia, 150 km northeast of the capital Riga. It has a population of 5,880 .-The name:...

 (5996), Strenči

Strenci

-See also:*List of cities in Latvia...

 (1474), and Seda

Seda, Latvia

Seda is a town in Latvia founded in 1952. The major local industry is extraction of peat. The town is remarkable for its 1950s style Stalinist architecture, dating from the glory days of Seda, when workers from all over the USSR came to work for the peat extraction enterprise.Joint stock company...

(1692).

Districts were eliminated during the administrative-territorial reform in 2009.