Tunkinsky District (Russian: Тунки́нский райо́н; Buryat: Түнхэнэй аймаг, Tünkhenei aimag) is an administrative[1] and municipal[3] district (raion), one of the twenty-one in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia. It is located in the west of the republic. The area of the district is 11,791.62 square kilometers (4,552.77 sq mi).[citation needed] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Kyren.[1] As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 22,672, with the population of Kyren accounting for 23.8% of that number.[2]
^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.