Nenets Autonomous Okrug
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Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Russian: Нене́цкий автоно́мный о́круг; Nenets: Ненёцие автономной ӈокрук), 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 (the smallest of all federal subjects by population), 18,611 of whom live in Naryan-Mar, the administrative center.
The Nenets language has official status along with Russian in the district.
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[edit] Geography and ecology
The arctic ecology of this area has a number of unique features derived from the extreme temperatures and unique geologic province. Polar bears are found in this locale; in fact, the sub-population found here is a genetically distinct taxon associated with the Barents Sea region.[1]
[edit] Time zone
Nenetsia is located in the Moscow Time Zone (MSK/MSD). UTC offset is +0300 (MSK)/+0400 (MSD).
[edit] Administrative divisions
[edit] Government and Politics
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[edit] Demographics
Population (2002): 41,546.
Vital statistics (2005):
- Births: 607 (birth rate 14.5)
- Deaths: 513 (death rate 12.2)
Birth rate was 16.4 in the first half of 2008. [1]
Ethnic groups:
According to the 2002 Census the ethnic composition was • Russian 62.43% • Nenets 18.66% • Komi 10.85% • Ukrainian 3.16% • Belarusians 1.03% • Tatar 0.51% • and a few other groups of less than one hundred persons each.
1.58% of the inhabitants declined to state their ethnicity on the census questionnaire.[2]
Historical figures are given below:
| census 1939 | census 1959 | census 1970 | census 1979 | census 1989 | census 2002 | |
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| Nenets | 5,602 (11.8%) | 4,957 (10.9%) | 5,851 (15.0%) | 6,031 (12.8%) | 6,423 (11.9%) | 7,754 (18.7%) |
| Komi | 6,003 (12.6%) | 5,012 (11.0%) | 5,359 (13.7%) | 5,160 (10.9%) | 5,124 (9.5%) | 4,510 (10.9%) |
| Russians | 32,146 (67.5%) | 31,312 (68.8%) | 25,225 (64.5%) | 31,067 (65.8%) | 35,489 (65.8%) | 25,942 (62.4%) |
| Others | 3,866 (8.1%) | 4,253 (9.3%) | 2,684 (6.9%) | 4,960 (10.5%) | 6,876 (12.8%) | 3,340 (8.0%) |
Ethnographic maps shows the Nenets living throughout the Okrug, with the east-central section of the okrug, along the Komi Republic border, showing mixed Nenets-Komi population.[3]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ C. Michael Hogan (2008) Polar Bear: Ursus maritimus, Globaltwitcher.com, ed. Nicklas Stromberg
- ^ (XLS)National Composition of Population for Regions of the Russian Federation. 2002 Russian All-Population Census. 2002. http://www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/English/4-2.xls. Retrieved on 2006-07-20.
- ^ Map 3.2 (Nenetskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug) from the series prepared for the INSROP (International Northern Sea Route Programme) Working Paper No. 90 in 1997.
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