Paranginsky District

Paranginsky District (Russian: Параньги́нский райо́н; Meadow Mari: Поранча кундем, Poranča 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 800 square kilometers (310 sq mi).

[citation needed] Its administrative center is the urban locality (an urban-type settlement) of Paranga.

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

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