Pinsk District

District of Brest Region, Belarus

District in Brest Region, Belarus

Pinsk District Пінскі раён (Belarusian) Пинский район (Russian)
District
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Coordinates: 52°07′30″N 26°05′09″E / 52.12500°N 26.08583°E / 52.12500; 26.08583
Country	Belarus
Region	Brest Region
Administrative center	Pinsk
Area
• Total	3,252.77 km² (1,255.90 sq mi)
Population (2024)^[1]
• Total	40,741
• Density	13/km² (32/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK)
Website	pinsk.brest-region.gov.by

Pinsk District (Belarusian: Пінскі раён, romanized: Pinski rajon; Russian: Пинский район, romanized: Pinsky rayon) is a district (raion) of Brest Region in Belarus. Its administrative center is Pinsk, which is administratively separated from the district.^[1] As of 2024, it has a population of 40,741.^[1]

Demographics

At the time of the 2009 Belarusian census, Pinsk District had a population of 51,997. Of these, 92.2% were of Belarusian, 2.6% Russian, 2.6% Ukrainian and 1.6% Polish ethnicity. 70.7% spoke Belarusian and 26.0% Russian as their native language. In 2023, it had a population of 41,168.^[2]

Pinsk district in literature

Pinskaja Šliachta [Pinsk Nobility] by Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich (1866)^[3]

Notable residents

Raman Skirmunt (1868, Parečča village – 1939), politician, supporter of the Belarusian independence movement^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Численность населения на 1 января 2024 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2023 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа". belsat.gov.by. Archived from the original on 2 April 2024. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
^ "Численность населения на 1 января 2023 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2022 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа". belsat.gov.by. Archived from the original on 17 April 2023. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
^ Razor, Sasha. "Vintsėnt Dunin-Martsinkevich: Pinskaia shliakhta [The Gentry of Pinsk] (1866)". The Literary Encyclopedia.
^ Skirmunt Raman