Chechnya

The Chechen Republic (Chechen: ??????? ??????????/Noxçiyn Respublika, Russian: ????????? ??????????), informal Chechnya (Chechen: ????????/Noxçiyçö/Nokhchiyno, Russian: ?????), sometimes incorrectly refered to as Ichkeria, Chechnia or Chechenia, is currently a constituent republic of the Russian Federation. Bordering Stavropol Krai to the northwest, the republic of Dagestan to the northeast and east, Georgia to the south, and the republics of Ingushetia and North Ossetia to the west, it is located in the Northern Caucasus mountains, in the Southern Federal District.

Administrative Divisions

Districts

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Chechnya Republic consists of the following districts (Russian: ??????):

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• Naursky (????????)
• Shelkovskoy (??????????)
• Nadterechny (???????????)
• Groznensky (???????????)
• Gudermessky (????????????)
• Sunzhensky (??????????)
• Achkhoy-Martanovsky (?????-????????????)
• Urus-Martanovsky (????-????????????)
• Shalinsky (?????????)
• Kurchaloyevsky (?????????????)
• Itum-Kalinsky (????-?????????)
• Shatoysky (?????????)
• Vedensky (?????????)
• Nozhay-Yurtovsky (?????-?????????)
• Sharoysky (?????????)

Major settlements

• Znamenskoye
• Naurskaya
• Achkhoy-Martan
• Urus-Martan
• Grozny
• Shali
• Gudermes
• Shelkovskaya
• Itum-Shale
• Shatoy
• Vedeno
• Nozhay-Yurt