Kobyaysky District
municipal district in Russia
Kobyaysky District (Russian: Кобяйский улу́с; Yakut: Кэбээйи улууһа, Kebeeyi uluuha, [kebeːji uluːha]) is an administrative and municipal district (raion, or ulus), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is located in the center of the republic on the Vilyuy River, 334 kilometers (208 mi) by road north of the republic's capital of Yakutsk. The area of the district is 107,800 square kilometers (41,600 sq mi). Its administrative center is the urban-type settlement of Sangar. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 13,680, with the population of Sangar accounting for 32.0% of that number.
Geography
Mountainous areas are located in the north and northeast of the district, with the Kuturgin Range, Muosuchan Range, Munni Range and Ust-Vilyuy Range, subranges of the Verkhoyansk Range, while the rest of the district is part of the Central Yakutian Lowland.
Several rivers flow through the district. These include the Lena River, which flows between the mouths of tributaries of the Aldan, the Linde, and its tributary the Vilyuy in the lower reaches, as well as the Kenkeme, Tyugyuene, Sitte, Tympylykan, Khanchaly, Belyanka, the Tumara and the Nuora. The largest of the district's lowland lakes is Nedzheli. A part of the Ust-Vilyuysky National Park is also located on the district's territory.
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