Zelva district

{{Short description|District of Grodno Region, Belarus}} {{Infobox settlement |official_name = Zelva district |native_name = {{native name|be|Зэльвенскі раён}}<br />{{native name|ru|Зельвенский район}} |image_flag = Zelva flag.svg |flag_size = 150 |image_shield = Zelva coat.svg |shield_size = 75 |image_map = Belarus, Hrodzienskaja voblasć, Zeĺvienski rajon.png |coordinates = {{Coord|53|09|N|24|49|E|type:adm2nd_source:kolossus-itwiki|display=title,inline}} |settlement_type = [[Districts of Belarus|District]] |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = [[Belarus]] |subdivision_type1 = [[Regions of Belarus|Region]] |subdivision_name1 = [[Grodno region]] |seat_type = Administrative center |seat = [[Zelva]] |area_total_km2 = 869.69 |population_as_of = 2024 |population_footnotes = <ref name="pop">{{cite web|url=https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/solialnaya-sfera/naselenie-i-migratsiya/naselenie/statisticheskie-izdaniya/index_89355/|title=Численность населения на 1 января 2024 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2023 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240402055418/https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/solialnaya-sfera/naselenie-i-migratsiya/naselenie/statisticheskie-izdaniya/index_89355/|archive-date=2 April 2024|website=belsat.gov.by|access-date=13 May 2024}}</ref> |population_total = 12,851 |population_density_km2 = auto |population_urban = 6,296 |population_rural = 6,555 |elevation_m = |timezone = [[Moscow Time|MSK]] |utc_offset = +3 }}

'''Zelva district''' or '''Zeĺva district'''<ref>Official transliteration from Belarusian language (2007)</ref> ({{langx|be|Зэльвенскі раён}}; {{langx|ru|Зельвенский район}}) is a [[districts of Belarus|district]] ([[raion]]) of [[Grodno region]] in [[Belarus]]. The administrative center is [[Zelva]].<ref name="pop"/> As of 2024, it has a population of 12,851.<ref name="pop"/>

== Notable residents == *[[Vasil Zacharka]] (1877–1943), Belarusian statesman and president of the [[Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic]]<ref>[https://www.radabnr.org/starsyni/vzacharka/ Vasil Zacharka, IVth President of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic (Васіль Захарка, IV старшыня Рады БНР)](in Belarusian)</ref> * [[Raphael Lemkin]] (1900–1959), drafter of the [[Genocide Convention]]

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