Cherykaw District or Čerykaŭ District[2] (Belarusian: Чэрыкаўскі раён; Russian: Чериковский район, romanized: Cherikovsky rayon) is a district (raion) of Mogilev Region in Belarus. The administrative center is the town of Cherykaw. As of 2009, its population was 14,875. The population of Cherykaw accounts for 55.0% of the district's population.[3]

History

As a result of the Chernobyl disaster, part of the district's territory became contaminated, and the inhabitants were resettled. In the area, several settlements remained uninhabited.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Численность населения на 1 января 2023 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2022 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа". belsat.gov.by. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
  2. ^ Official transliteration from Belarusian language (2007)
  3. ^ Численность населения областей и районов: Могилевская (PDF) (in Russian). Национальный статистический комитет Республики Беларусь. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
  4. ^ https://libmogilev.by/chernobyl/mogilev_region.html


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherykaw_district
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