Kemsky District (Russian: Ке́мский райо́н; Karelian: Kemin piiri) is an administrative district (raion), one of the fifteen in the Republic of Karelia, Russia.[1] It is located in the northeast of the republic. The area of the district is 8,029 square kilometers (3,100 sq mi).[3] Its administrative center is the town of Kem.[2] As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 17,756, with the population of Kem accounting for 73.5% of that number.[4]
^Всесоюзная перепись населения 1979 г. Национальный состав населения по регионам России [All Union Population Census of 1979. Ethnic composition of the population by regions of Russia] (XLS). Всесоюзная перепись населения 1979 года [All-Union Population Census of 1979] (in Russian). 1979 – via Demoscope Weekly (website of the Institute of Demographics of the State University—Higher School of Economics.