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Kandalakshsky District

municipal district in Murmansk Oblast, Russia
AdministrativeArea municipal_district Q2425066
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Summary

Kandalakshsky District is a municipal district[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of municipal district entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (259 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Murmansk Oblast[3]
  • Country: Russia[4], Soviet Union[5]
  • Capital: Kandalaksha[6]
  • Flag: flag of Kandalakshsky District[7]
  • Coat of arms: Герб Кандалакшского района[8]
  • Commons category: Kandalakshsky District[9]
  • Inception: 1927[10]
  • Official website: http://www.kandalaksha-admin.ru/[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Kandalakshsky District[12]
  • Population: 78,239[13], 60,140[14], 55,102[15], 49,544[16], 49,326[17], 47,910[18], 46,928[19], 45,860[20], 45,115[21], 45,216[22], 44,722[23], 43,917[24], 42,771[25], 41,917[26]
  • Category for people born here: Q49674796[27]
  • Category for people who died here: Q32171854[28]
  • Category for people buried here: Q32303324[29]
  • Area: 14,400 km²[30]

Why It Matters

Kandalakshsky District has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Related Entities

Russia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Q126683534. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Q126687602. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Q126683667. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Q127273194. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . gks.ru. gks.ru. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Q126683726. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Q126683996. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Q126707963. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Q126684268. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Q126684493. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Q41348632. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Q56023898. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Q126684775. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Q126688520. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6d ago · Logjohn · 2026-10-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    Wikipedia languages → ['ce', 'ceb', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'frr', 'hy', 'it', 'nn', 'no',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||da, sv */"
  2. 13w ago · Finiksizpepla · 2026-07-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Area → {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+14400'}
    Category for people buried here → Q32303324
    Instance of → municipal district
    Category for people who died here → Q32171854
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Population: 38,966"
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