| Area Total Km2: | 6,836.98 |
| Established Date: | 1801 |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Extinct Date: | 1930 |
| Extinct Title: | Abolished |
| Mapsize: | 220px |
| Gori uezd | |
| Native Name: | Горійскій уѣздъ |
| Native Name Lang: | ru |
| Population As Of: | 1916 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Rural: | 92.34% |
| Population Total: | 241,016 |
| Population Urban: | 7.66% |
| Seat: | Gori |
| Seat Type: | Capital |
| Settlement Type: | Uezd |
| Subdivision Name: | Russian Empire |
| Subdivision Name1: | Caucasus |
| Subdivision Name2: | Tiflis |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Viceroyalty |
| Subdivision Type2: | Governorate |
| Total Type: | Total |
The Gori uezd was a county (uezd) of the Tiflis Governorate of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, and then of Democratic Republic of Georgia, with its administrative center in Gori. The area of the county roughly corresponded to the contemporary Shida Kartli region of Georgia.
Following the Russian Revolution, the Gori uezd was incorporated into the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia.
The subcounties (uchastoks) of the Gori uezd in 1913 were as follows:
| Name | 1912 population | |
|---|---|---|
| Akhalkalakskiy uchastok | 27,765 | |
| Borzhomskiy uchastok | 9,284 | |
| Gomskiy uchastok | 19,868 | |
| Gorno-Osetinskiy uchastok | 23,933 | |
| Karelskiy uchastok | 22,982 | |
| Kvemo-Chalskiy uchastok | 14,216 | |
| Medzhviskhevskiy uchastok | 23,770 | |
| Suramskiy uchastok | 12,351 | |
| Tskhinvalskiy uchastok | 31,953 |
According to the Russian Empire Census, the Gori uezd had a population of 191,091 on, including 102,837 men and 88,254 women. The majority of the population indicated Georgian to be their mother tongue, with a significant Ossetian speaking minority.[1]
| Georgian | 124,180 | 64.98 | |
| Ossetian | 50,036 | 26.18 | |
| Armenian | 7,686 | 4.02 | |
| Russian | 5,281 | 2.76 | |
| Greek | 917 | 0.48 | |
| Jewish | 874 | 0.46 | |
| Tatar | 432 | 0.23 | |
| Imeretian | 393 | 0.21 | |
| Ukrainian | 335 | 0.18 | |
| Mingrelian | 233 | 0.12 | |
| Polish | 218 | 0.11 | |
| German | 197 | 0.10 | |
| Assyrian | 64 | 0.03 | |
| Turkish | 38 | 0.02 | |
| Avar-Andean | 30 | 0.02 | |
| Czech | 20 | 0.01 | |
| Dargin | 19 | 0.01 | |
| Kyurin | 16 | 0.01 | |
| Persian | 15 | 0.01 | |
| Lithuanian | 14 | 0.01 | |
| Latvian | 13 | 0.01 | |
| Chechen | 12 | 0.01 | |
| Belarusian | 7 | 0.00 | |
| Romanian | 4 | 0.00 | |
| Italian | 2 | 0.00 | |
| Kurdish | 1 | 0.00 | |
| Other | 54 | 0.03 | |
| TOTAL | 191,091 | 100.00 |
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According to the 1917 publication of Kavkazskiy kalendar, the Gori uezd had a population of 241,016 on, including 124,658 men and 116,358 women, 226,436 of whom were the permanent population, and 14,580 were temporary residents:
| Nationality | Urban | Rural | TOTAL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | ||
| Georgians | 9,580 | 51.91 | 152,846 | 68.68 | 162,426 | 67.39 | |
| North Caucasians | 0 | 0.00 | 37,567 | 16.88 | 37,567 | 15.59 | |
| Armenians | 7,270 | 39.40 | 25,552 | 11.48 | 32,822 | 13.62 | |
| Jews | 104 | 0.56 | 3,998 | 1.80 | 4,102 | 1.70 | |
| Russians | 1,377 | 7.46 | 1,030 | 0.46 | 2,407 | 1.00 | |
| Asiatic Christians | 0 | 0.00 | 1,450 | 0.65 | 1,450 | 0.60 | |
| Shia Muslims | 22 | 0.12 | 116 | 0.05 | 138 | 0.06 | |
| Other Europeans | 65 | 0.35 | 3 | 0.00 | 68 | 0.03 | |
| Sunni Muslims | 36 | 0.20 | 0 | 0.00 | 36 | 0.01 | |
| TOTAL | 18,454 | 100.00 | 222,562 | 100.00 | 241,016 | 100.00 | |