Municipality of Choni
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| Country | Georgia | ||
| region | Imereti | ||
| Seat | Choni | ||
| surface | 429 km² | ||
| Residents | 23,570 (2014) | ||
| density | 55 inhabitants per km² | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | GE-IM | ||
| Website | www.khoni.gov.ge (Georgian, English, Russian) | ||
Coordinates: 42 ° 24 ' N , 42 ° 30' E
The municipality Choni ( Georgian ხონის მუნიციპალიტეტი , Chonis munizipaliteti ) is an administrative unit (roughly equivalent to a district ) in the Imereti region in the western central part of Georgia .
geography
The administrative center of the municipality is the eponymous town of Choni . The 428.5 km² municipality borders on the municipality of Zqaltubo in the east and on the municipality of Samtredia in the south , both also in Imereti. In the west to northwest it is bounded by the municipality of Martvili and in the southwest on a short section by the municipality of Abascha , both in the region of Mingrelia and Upper Svaneti , and in the northeast by the municipality of Zageri in the region of Ratscha-Letschchumi and Lower Svanetia .
The southern half of the municipality is located in the northeastern edge of the Colchian Plain , also known there as the Imeretian Plain , which rises gradually from around 60 m above sea level in the south to around 200 m in the central part of the area. The northern part is occupied by forested mountainous terrain, which rises to the western foothills of the Ratscha Mountains in the northeast or to the southern flank of the Aschi Plateau in the northwest; the maximum height of the territory of the municipality is about 1500 m in both areas . Between the two mountain ranges, the right tributary of the Rioni, Zcheniszqali, reaches the area, crosses it in the northern central part and then flows south along the western border to the Mingrelia region. Another right tributary of the Rioni, the Gubiszqali, flows through part of the area in the east and then along the border with the municipality of Zqaltubo .
Population and administrative division
With 23,570 inhabitants (2014), the number of inhabitants has fallen by a good quarter compared to the previous census (31,749 inhabitants in 2002), well above the national average. The trend that had already started in the 1980s (maximum 37,968 inhabitants in 1979) thus accelerated. In the 1970s, after a temporary decline, the population had reached and exceeded the level of 1939.
- Population development
Note: census data
The population is almost mono-ethnic Georgian (99.2%); there is also a small number of mainly Russians and Abkhazians (as of 2002).
The largest villages besides the small town of Choni (8987 inhabitants) are the villages Didi Kuchi , Iwandidi and Matchodschi (2014), each with over 1000 inhabitants .
The municipality is divided into the independent main town Choni and eleven municipalities (Georgian temi, თემი or simply "village", Georgian sopeli, სოფელი ) with a total of 39 villages, two of which have no permanent residents:
| local community | Number of towns |
Population (2014) |
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| Dedalauri | 4 1 | 1007 |
| Dsedsileti | 5 1 | 435 |
| Gordi | 5 | 1004 |
| Gotschajikhaishi | 1 | 756 |
| Gubi | 3 | 1071 |
| Iwandidi | 1 | 1668 |
| Kintschcha | 5 | 254 |
| Kuchi | 3 | 2083 |
| Kutiri | 3 | 1740 |
| Matchodschi | 4th | 1762 |
| Nachachulewi | 5 | 2803 |
history
The southern and central part of the area belonged to the Kingdom of Imeretia from the collapse of the Kingdom of Georgia in the 15th century until the 19th century , and the northern part to the right of the Zcheniszqali to the Principality of Mingrelia . After these areas were annexed to the Russian Empire , the imeretic part came to Ujesd Kutais , the Mingrelic part to Ujesd Senaki , both part of the Kutais governorate .
This administrative structure existed until the early years of the Soviet Union , when in 1930 the independent Rajon Choni was formed from parts of the two earlier Ujesde. In 1936 the city of Choni was named Zulukidze after the revolutionary Aleksandre Zulukidze (1876-1905) who was born there ; the name of the Rajon was adapted accordingly (Georgian წულუკიძის რაიონი , Zulukidsis raioni; Russian Цулукидзевский район , Zulukidsewski rajon ). In 1989 the historical name of the town and administrative unit was restored. After the independence of Georgia in 1995 the Rajon was assigned to the newly formed region of Imereti and in 2006 it was transformed into a municipality.
traffic
The administrative center Choni is the intersection or starting point of the most important road connections through the southern part of the municipality: the national road Sch12 ( შ 12 ) from Kutaisi to Samtredia , the Sch5 ( შ 5 ) through the neighboring municipality of Martwili to the west and on to Senaki, the Sch52 ( შ 52 ) to the neighboring administrative center of Zqaltubo to the east, the Sch53 ( შ 53 ) running in a northerly direction to Martwili and the Sch102 ( შ 102 ) to the international trunk road S1 ( ს 1 ) passing south between Samtredia and the (Kuraissi-) Kopitnari airport .
In the northeast, the national road Sch15 ( შ 15 ) coming from Kutaisi via Zqaltubo reaches the valley of the Zcheniszqali, which it follows further up to the Ratscha-Letschchumi region and Lower Vanetia with the towns of Zageri and Lentechi . There is no direct road connection from the southern and central parts to the northeast of the municipality through the narrow gorge of the Zcheniszqali.
The municipality of Choni does not have its own rail connection; the nearest train stations are south of Samtredia on the line Poti - Tbilisi (- Baku) and east of Zqaltubo as the end point of a branch line from Brozeula via Kutaisi .
Web links
- Website of the municipality of Choni (Georgian, partly English, Russian)
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)
