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Chokhatauri Municipality

municipality in Guria, Georgia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ2466860 ↗
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Chokhatauri (Georgian: ჩოხატაურის მუნიციპალიტეტი) is a district of Georgia, in the region of Guria. Its largest city and administrative centre is Chokhatauri.

Population

The population of the municipality is 19 001 people (2014); Density - 23.03 people / sq. km. Georgians live there. The majority of the population is Gurians, as well as Adjarans. A large part of the population is Orthodox Christian, a certain part - Muslim. There are 62 settlements in the municipality: 1 small town and 61 villages.

Politics

Chokhatauri Municipal Assembly (Georgian: ჩოხატაურის საკრებულო, Chokhatauris Sakrebulo) is a representative body in Chokhatauri Municipality consisting of 36 members which are elected every four years. The last election was held in October 2021.

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The public source identifies “Chokhatauri Municipality” as municipality in Guria, Georgia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chokhatauri, Municipality and municipality.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chokhatauri Municipality” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.