Agin-Buryat Okrug

Agin-Buryat Okrug ( _ru. Аги́нский-Буря́тский о́круг; _bx. Агын Буряадай округ "Agyn Burjaadaj okrug"), or Aga Buryatia, is an administrative division of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. _ru. Федеральный конституционный закон №5-ФКЗ от 21 июля 2007 года "Об образовании в составе Российской Федерации нового субъекта Российской Федерации в результате объединения Читинской области и Агинского Бурятского автономного округа"] . Статья 5. (Federal Constitutional Law #5-FKZ of July 21, 2007 "On Creation of a New Federal Subject Within the Russian Federation as a Result of the Merger of Chita Oblast and Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug". Article 5) ru icon] It was a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Chita Oblast) until it merged with Chita Oblast to form Zabaykalsky Krai on March 1, 2008. Prior to merger, it was called Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug ( _ru. Аги́нский-Буря́тский автоно́мный о́круг).

It had an area of km2 to mi2|19312.3 and a population of 72,213 as of the 2002 Census. The administrative center is the urban-type settlement of Aginskoye.

Geography

Time zone

The okrug is located in the Yakutsk Time Zone (YAKT/YAKST). UTC offset is +0900 (YAKT)/+1000 (YAKST).

Demographics

"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.

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. [http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2007/0301/barom04.php]

Vital Statistics for 2007: Source

Birth Rate: 20.14 per 1000

Death Rate: 10.74 per 1000

Net Immigration: +7.3 per 1000

NGR: +0.94% per Year

PGR: +1.67% per Year

ee also

*Administrative divisions of Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug

References