AGIN-BURYAT AUTONOMOUS OKRUG

'Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug' (; Buryat: Агын Буряадай автономито округ), or 'Aga Buryatia', is a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Chita Oblast). The autonomous okrug has an area of 19,312.3 km² and population of 72,213 as of the 2002 Census. The administrative center is the urban-type settlement of Aginskoye.
It will be merged with Chita Oblast to form Zabaykalsky Krai on 1 March 2008.

Contents

Time zone

Administrative divisions

Demographics

Time zone

Aga Buryatia is located in the Yakutsk Time Zone (YAKT/YAKST). UTC offset is +0900 (YAKT)/+1000 (YAKST).

Administrative divisions

Main articles: Administrative divisions of Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug

Demographics

''Population'' (2002): 72,213
''Ethnic groups'':
While residents of the autonomous okrug (as of the 2002 census) identified themselves as belonging to 54 different ethnic groups, most of them consider themselves either Buryats (62.5%) or ethnic Russians (35.1%), the Tatars at 390 (0.5%) ending up as a distant third most numerous group in the region.

	census 1959	census 1970	census 1979	census 1989	census 2002
Buryats	23,374 (47.6%)	33,117 (50.4%)	35,868 (52.0%)	42,362 (54.9%)	45,149 (62.5%)
Russians	23,857 (48.6%)	28,966 (44.0%)	29,098 (42.1%)	31,473 (40.8%)	25,366 (35.1%)
Others	1,878 (3.8%)	3,685 (5.6%)	4,069 (5.9%)	3,353 (4.3%)	1,698 (2.4%)

'Vital statistics' (2005)

★ ''Births'': 1,234 (birth rate 16.7)

★ ''Deaths'': 901 (death rate 12.2)