Chobi municipality
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| Country | Georgia | ||
| region | Mingrelia and Upper Svaneti | ||
| Seat | Chobi | ||
| surface | 659 km² | ||
| Residents | 30,548 (2014) | ||
| density | 46 inhabitants per km² | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | GE-SZ | ||
| Website | www.khobi.ge (Georgian) | ||
Coordinates: 42 ° 15 ' N , 41 ° 48' E
The Chobi municipality ( Georgian ხობის მუნიციპალიტეტი , Chobis munizipaliteti ) is an administrative unit (roughly equivalent to a district ) in the Mingrelia and Upper Svaneti region in western Georgia .
geography
The administrative center of the municipality Chobi is the eponymous minority town (Georgian daba , დაბა ) Chobi .
To the northwest is the 659.2 square kilometers municipality Chobi from the municipality Zugdidi , in the northeast of the municipality Tschchorozqu , in the southeast of the municipality of Senaki and the southwest of the territory of munizipalitätsfreien city Poti limited, all also in the region Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti. In the west the municipality borders on the Black Sea , in the south on a relatively short section on the municipality of Lanchuti of the Guria region .
The municipality is mainly located in the Colchian Plain, which reaches a maximum height of 10 m above sea level, on both sides of the Chobiszqali river and in the south on both sides of the largest west Georgian river Rioni ; in the hilly, up to 150 m high northeastern part, which is delimited by a ridge with the 466 m high Urta peak near Chobi, it mainly occupies the area between Chobiszqali and its right tributary Tschaniszqali .
Population and administrative division
With 30,548 inhabitants (2014), the population has decreased by around a quarter compared to the previous census (41,240 inhabitants in 2002), well above the national average. Before that, the population had risen steadily since at least the 1930s, even contrary to the national trend in the 1990s, when the area took in large numbers of refugees (sometimes temporarily) as a result of the Georgian-Abkhaz war and the de facto separation of Abkhazia from Georgia.
- Population development
Note: census data
The population is almost mono-ethnic Georgian or Mingrelian (about 99.25%); there are also a small number of Russians and Abkhazians (as of 2002).
The largest localities besides the minor town of Chobi (4242 inhabitants) are the villages of Lartschwa , Sabascho and Seni (2014) with over 1000 inhabitants each .
The municipality is divided into the independent main town Chobi and 21 municipalities (Georgian temi, თემი or simply "village", Georgian sopeli, სოფელი ) with a total of 57 villages, one of which has no permanent residents:
| local community | Number of towns |
Population (2014) |
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| Achalchibula | 3 | 1657 |
| Akhalsopeli | 3 1 | 1440 |
| Bia | 3 | 619 |
| Chamiskuri | 3 | 1234 |
| Cheta | 5 | 2775 |
| Dsweli Chibula | 1 | 712 |
| Guripuli | 2 | 780 |
| Kariati | 2 | 744 |
| Kwemo Kwaloni | 5 | 2445 |
| Nodschichewi | 5 | 2085 |
| Patara Poti | 1 | 942 |
| Pirweli Chorga | 1 | 601 |
| Pirweli Maissi | 3 | 1746 |
| Qulewi | 1 | 280 |
| Sadschijao | 4th | 2401 |
| Sagwitschio | 1 | 531 |
| Shawghele | 1 | 581 |
| Schua Chorga | 3 | 1170 |
| Semo Kwaloni | 3 | 542 |
| Torsa-Dghwaba | 3 | 958 |
| Chaladidi | 4th | 2063 |
history
After the fall of the Kingdom of Georgia from the 16th century until the 19th century, the area belonged to the Principality of Mingrelia . While Georgia was part of the Russian Empire and until the early years of the Soviet Union , it was predominantly part of the Ujesds Zugdidi , the small part to the left of the Rioni part of the Ujesds Senaki , both in the Kutais Governorate . In 1930 the independent Rajon Chobi was expelled. After the independence of Georgia in 1995 the Rajon was assigned to the newly formed region of Mingrelia and Upper Svaneti and in 2006 it was converted into a municipality.
traffic
The international trunk road S1 ( ს 1 ) from Tbilisi to the Russian or Abkhazian border (on this section also European route 97 ) runs through the central part of the municipality with the main town Chobi , through the south from Senaki to Poti the S2 ( ს 2 ; on this section at the same time Europastraße 60 and 97).
The national road Sch48 ( შ 48 ) is a cross connection from Chobi to the S2 at Sabascho, from which the Sch97 ( შ 97 ) branches off, which follows the Chobiszqali down to the confluence with the Black Sea below the village of Qulewi . There, the city of Poti is located ten kilometers north of the new, opened in 2008, the oil port Qulewi (English Kulevi oil terminal ) of SOCAR for shipping Azeri oil. From Chobi the Chobiszqali up the Sch87 ( შ 87 ) leads to the Sch6 ( შ 6 ) south of the neighboring municipality of Tschchorozqu .
The most important railway connection in Georgia runs parallel to the S2 in the south of the municipality, the Poti - Tbilisi (- Baku) line opened on this section in 1872 . A connection to the Qulewi oil port branches off before Poti. The Senaki – Adler railway line , which was opened there in 1930, runs through Chobi, although it is interrupted in the border area due to the Abkhazia conflict and ends today with the branch line to Zugdidi, which branches off just before the border.
Web links
- Website of Chobi Municipality (Georgian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Population Census 2014 ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ Population Census 2002 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
