Shemurshinsky District

Shemurshinsky District (Russian: Шемурши́нский район; Chuvash: Шăмăршă районӗ, Şămărşă rayonĕ) is an administrative[1] and municipal[4] district (raion), one of the twenty-one in the Chuvash Republic, Russia.

It is located in the south and southwest of the republic.

The area of the district is 799.1 square kilometers (308.5 sq mi).

[2] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Shemursha.

[7] The population of Shemursha accounts for 25.5% of the district's total population.