Sukhumi district
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Sukhumi district is a district of Abkhazia
Abkhazia
Abkhazia is a disputed political entity on the eastern coast of the Black Sea and the south-western flank of the Caucasus.Abkhazia considers itself an independent state, called the Republic of Abkhazia or Apsny...

, Georgia
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

’s breakaway republic. It corresponds to the eponymous Georgian district. Its capital is Sukhumi
Sukhumi
Sukhumi is the capital of Abkhazia, a disputed region on the Black Sea coast. The city suffered heavily during the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict in the early 1990s.-Naming:...

, the town by the same name, which is also the capital of entire Abkhazia. The population of the district is 11,747 according to the 2003 census. The city of Sukhumi is a separate administrative entity with more than 40,000 inhabitants.

Demographics

According to 2003 census, the population of the district included:
  • Armenians (61.4%)
  • Abkhaz (24.8%)
  • Russians (7.3%)
  • Georgians (2.1%)
  • Greeks (1.6%)
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