NENETS AUTONOMOUS OKRUG

'Nenets Autonomous Okrug' (; Nenets: ), 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, 18,611 of whom live in Naryan-Mar, the administrative center.
The Nenets language has official status along with Russian in the district.

Contents

Geography

Time zone

Administrative divisions

Demographics

See also

Geography

Time zone

Nenetsia is located in the Moscow Time Zone (MSK/MSD). UTC offset is +0300 (MSK)/+0400 (MSD).

Administrative divisions

Demographics

''Population'' (2002): 41,546.
''Vital statistics'' (2005):

★ Births: 607 (birth rate 14.5)

★ Deaths: 513 (death rate 12.2)
''Ethnic groups'':

According to the 2002 Census the ‘national 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.^[1]

Historical figures are given below:

	census 1939	census 1959	census 1970	census 1979	census 1989	census 2002
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%)

See also

★ Music of Nenetsia