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Providensky District
Providensky District
(;
Chukchi
: ) is an administrative and municipal district (
raion
), one of the
six
in
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
,
Russia
. It is located in the northeast of the autonomous okrug, in the southern half of the
Chukchi Peninsula
with a northwest extension reaching almost to the
Kolyuchinskaya Bay
on the Arctic. It borders with
Chukotsky District
in the north, the
Bering Sea
in the east and south, and with
Iultinsky District
in the west. The area of the district is . Its
administrative center
is the
urban locality
(an
urban-type settlement
) of
Provideniya
. Population: The population of Provideniya accounts for 50.2% of the district's total population.
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