Nenets Autonomous Okrug

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Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Russian: Нене́цкий автоно́мный о́круг), or Nenetsia, is a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Arkhangelsk Oblast).

It has an area of 176,700 km² and population of 41,546 as of the 2002 Census, 18,611 of whom live in Naryan-Mar, the administrative center.

The Nenets language has official status along with Russian in the district.

1 Geography
- 1.1 Time zone
2 Administrative divisions
3 Demographics
4 See also

[edit] Geography

[edit] Time zone

Nenetsia is located in the Moscow Time Zone (MSK/MSD). UTC offset is +0300 (MSK)/+0400 (MSD).

[edit] Administrative divisions

Main article: Administrative divisions of Nenets Autonomous Okrug

[edit] Demographics

Population (2002): 41,546.

Birth Rate was 14.22 per 1000 in 2004.

Ethnic groups: Of the 41,546 residents (as of the 2002 census) 658 (1.6%) chose not to specify their ethnic background. Of the rest, residents identified themselves as belonging to 68 ethnic groups, including:

25,942 ethnic Russians (62.5%)
7,754 Nenets (18.7%)
4,510 Komis (10.87%)
1,312 Ukrainians (3.16%)

[edit] See also

Music of Nenetsia

Administrative divisions of Russia

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Federal subjects

Republics	Adygea \| Altai \| Bashkortostan \| Buryatia \| Chechnya \| Chuvashia \| Dagestan \| Ingushetia \| Kabardino-Balkaria \| Karelia \| Khakassia \| Komi \| Kalmykia \| Karachay-Cherkessia \| Mari El \| Mordovia \| North Ossetia-Alania \| Sakha \| Tatarstan \| Tuva \| Udmurtia
Krais	Altai \| Khabarovsk \| Krasnodar \| Krasnoyarsk¹ \| Perm \| Primorsky \| Stavropol
Oblasts	Amur \| Arkhangelsk \| Astrakhan \| Belgorod \| Bryansk \| Chelyabinsk \| Chita \| Irkutsk² \| Ivanovo \| Kaliningrad \| Kaluga \| Kamchatka³ \| Kemerovo \| Kirov \| Kostroma \| Kurgan \| Kursk \| Leningrad \| Lipetsk \| Magadan \| Moscow \| Murmansk \| Nizhny Novgorod \| Novgorod \| Novosibirsk \| Omsk \| Orenburg \| Oryol \| Penza \| Pskov \| Rostov \| Ryazan \| Sakhalin \| Samara \| Saratov \| Smolensk \| Sverdlovsk \| Tambov \| Tomsk \| Tula \| Tver \| Tyumen \| Ulyanovsk \| Vladimir \| Volgograd \| Vologda \| Voronezh \| Yaroslavl
Federal cities	Moscow \| St. Petersburg
Autonomous oblast	Jewish
Autonomous okrugs	Aga Buryatia \| Chukotka \| Evenkia¹ \| Khantia-Mansia \| Koryakia³ \| Nenetsia \| Taymyria¹ \| Ust-Orda Buryatia² \| Yamalia