Kargopolsky District is an administrative district (
raion), one of the
twenty-one in
Arkhangelsk Oblast,
Russia. As a municipal division, it is incorporated as
Kargopolsky Municipal District. It is located in the southwest of the
oblast and borders with
Plesetsky District in the north,
Nyandomsky District in the northeast,
Konoshsky District in the east,
Kirillovsky District of
Vologda Oblast in the south,
Vytegorsky District, also of Vologda Oblast, in the southwest, and with
Pudozhsky District of the
Republic of Karelia in the northwest. The area of the district is . Its
administrative center is the
town of
Kargopol. Population: The population of Kargopol accounts for 55.3% of the district's total population.