Akhtynsky District

Akhtynsky District is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the forty-one in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. It is located in the south of the republic and borders with Rutulsky, Kurakhsky, Magaramkentsky, and Dokuzparinsky Districts; in the southwest it has a 62-kilometer (39 mi) long border with Azerbaijan. The area of the district is 1,120 square kilometers (430 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality of Akhty. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 32,604, with the population of Akhty accounting for 41.1% of that number.