Morkinsky District

Morkinsky District (Russian: Морки́нский райо́н; Meadow Mari: Морко кундем, Morko kundem) is an administrative[1] and municipal[6] district (raion), one of the fourteen in the Mari El Republic, Russia.

The area of the district is 2,272 square kilometers (877 sq mi).

[3] Its administrative center is the urban locality (an urban-type settlement) of Morki.

[4] Within the framework of administrative divisions, Morkinsky District is one of the fourteen in the republic.

[1] It is divided into 1 urban-type settlement (an administrative division with the administrative center in the urban-type settlement (inhabited locality) of Morki) and 9 rural okrugs, all of which comprise 150 rural localities.