Luzhsky District
District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Luzhsky District (Russian: Лу́жский райо́н) is an administrative[1] and municipal[6] district (raion), one of the seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the oblast and borders with Gatchinsky District in the north, Tosnensky District in the northeast, Novgorodsky and Batetsky Districts of Novgorod Oblast in the southeast, Shimsky District, also of Novgorod Oblast, in the south, Plyussky District of Pskov Oblast in the southwest, Slantsevsky District in the west, and Volosovsky District in the northwest. The area of the district is 6,006.44 square kilometers (2,319.10 sq mi).[2] Its administrative center is the town of Luga.[1] Population (excluding the administrative center): 40,166 (2010 Russian census);[3] 41,885 (2002 Census);[8] 48,721 (1989 Soviet census).[9]
Luzhsky District
Лужский район | |
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Coordinates: 58°44′N 29°51′E | |
Country | Russia |
Federal subject | Leningrad Oblast[1] |
Established | 1 August 1927 |
Administrative center | Luga[1] |
Area | |
• Total | 6,006.44 km2 (2,319.10 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Total | 40,166 |
• Estimate (2018)[4] | 72,879 (+81.4%) |
• Density | 6.7/km2 (17/sq mi) |
• Urban | 8.0% |
• Rural | 92.0% |
Administrative structure | |
• Administrative divisions | 13 settlement municipal formation |
• Inhabited localities[1] | 1 cities/towns, 1 Urban-type settlements[5], 346 rural localities |
Municipal structure | |
• Municipally incorporated as | Luzhsky Municipal District[6] |
• Municipal divisions[6] | 2 urban settlements, 13 rural settlements |
Time zone | UTC+3 (MSK [7]) |
OKTMO ID | 41633000 |
Website | luga |