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Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug
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| Agin-Buryat (English) Аги́нский-Буря́тский автоно́мный о́круг (Russian) |
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 Location of Agin-Buryat in Russia |
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 Flag of Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug |
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| Administrative center | Aginskoye |
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| Political status Federal district Economic region |
Autonomous okrug Siberian Federal District East Siberian economic region |
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| Area - Rank within Russia |
19,312.3 km² |
| Population (as of the 2002 Census) | |
| Population - Rank within Russia - Density - Urban - Rural |
72,213 inhabitants 3.7 inhab. / km² |
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Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug (Russian: Аги́нский-Буря́тский автоно́мный о́круг; Buryat: Агын Буряадай автономито округ), or Aga Buryatia, is a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Chita Oblast). The autonomous okrug has an area of 19,312.3 km² and population of 72,213 as of the 2002 Census. The administrative center is the urban-type settlement of Aginskoye.
It will be merged with Chita Oblast to form Zabaykalsky Krai on 1 March 2008.
Aga Buryatia is located in the Yakutsk Time Zone (YAKT/YAKST). UTC offset is +0900 (YAKT)/+1000 (YAKST).
Population (2002): 72,213
Ethnic groups: While residents of the autonomous okrug (as of the 2002 census) identified themselves as belonging to 54 different ethnic groups, most of them consider themselves either Buryats (62.5%) or ethnic Russians (35.1%), the Tatars at 390 (0.5%) ending up as a distant third most numerous group in the region.
| census 1959 | census 1970 | census 1979 | census 1989 | census 2002 | |
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| Buryats | 23,374 (47.6%) | 33,117 (50.4%) | 35,868 (52.0%) | 42,362 (54.9%) | 45,149 (62.5%) |
| Russians | 23,857 (48.6%) | 28,966 (44.0%) | 29,098 (42.1%) | 31,473 (40.8%) | 25,366 (35.1%) |
| Others | 1,878 (3.8%) | 3,685 (5.6%) | 4,069 (5.9%) | 3,353 (4.3%) | 1,698 (2.4%) |
Vital statistics (2005)
- Births: 1,234 (birth rate 16.7)
- Deaths: 901 (death rate 12.2)
Birth rate was 18.5 in the first half of 2007. [1]
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