Khivsky District () is an administrative[Law #16] and municipal[Law #6] district (raion), one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the republic. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Khiv. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 22,753, with the population of Khiv accounting for 11.7% of that number.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Khivsky District is one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan.
The district is divided into eleven
which comprise forty-two rural localities.
As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as
Khivsky Municipal District.
Its eleven selsoviets are incorporated as sixteen rural settlements within the municipal district.
The
selo of
Khiv serves as the administrative center of both the administrative
and municipal
district.
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