Alūksne District Explained

Alūksne
Settlement Type:	District
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	Latvia
Unit Pref:	Metric
Area Total Km2:	2,243
Population Footnotes:	^[1]
Population Total:	24,159
Population Density Km2:	auto
Website:	aluksne.lv

Alūksne district (Latvian: Alūksnes rajons) was an administrative division of Latvia, located in Vidzeme region, in the country's north-east, 202km (126miles) from the capital city Riga. The district had international borders with Estonia (border 103.8 km/64.35 miles) and Russia (border 46.4 km/28.77 miles), and internal borders with the districts of Valka (51.7 km/32.05 miles), Gulbene (98.1 km/60.83 miles) and Balvi (57.4 km/35.58 miles). The main city in the district was Alūksne.

After the administrative-territorial reform of 2009 the Alūksne District was divided between Alūksne Municipality and Ape Municipality.

Cities and parishes in the Alūksne District

• Alūksne town
• Ape town
• Alsviķi parish
• Anna parish
• Gaujiena parish
• Ilzene parish
• Jaunalūksne parish
• Jaunanna parish
• Jaunlaicene parish
• Kalncempji parish
• Liepna parish
• Maliena parish
• Mālupe parish
• Mārkalne parish
• Pededze parish
• Trapene parish
• Veclaicene parish
• Vireši parish
• Zeltiņi parish
• Ziemeri parish

Notes and References

1. Web site: RESIDENT POPULATION BY REGION, CITY AND DISTRICT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR . Centrālās statistikas pārvaldes datu bāzes . 23 January 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090110055616/http://data.csb.gov.lv/Dialog/varval.asp?ma=04-05a&ti=4-5.+RESIDENT+POPULATION+BY+REGION%2C+CITY+AND+DISTRICT+AT+THE+BEGINNING+OF+THE+YEAR+++&path=..%2FDATABASEEN%2FIedzsoc%2FAnnual%20statistical%20data%2F04.%20Population%2F&lang=1 . 2009-01-10 . dead .