English Wikipedia - The Free Encycl...
Download this dictionary
Koryak Okrug
Koryak Okrug (, Koryaksky okrugKoryak: , Chav'chyvaokrug), or Koryakia, is an administrative division of Kamchatka KraiRussia. It was a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Kamchatka Oblast) from 1931 until July 1, 2007, when it merged with Kamchatka Oblast. Prior to the merger, it was called Koryak Autonomous Okrug . Its administrative center is the urban locality (an urban-type settlement) of Palana. Population:

Demographics
As of the 2002 Census, Koryaks constituted about a quarter of the population. At the time it had the smallest population of all the federal subjects, despite being ranked seventeenth in size, at , encompassing part of the northern half of Kamchatka Peninsula.

See more at Wikipedia.org...


© This article uses material from Wikipedia® and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License