Tes-Khemsky District

Tes-Khemsky District (Тес-Хемский кожуун, ; Тес-Хем кожууну, ) is an administrative and municipal district (raion, or kozhuun), one of the seventeen in the Tuva Republic, Russia. It is located in the south of the republic. The area of the district is 6680 km2. Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Samagaltay. Its population was 8,908 (2002 Census);  The population of Samagaltay accounts for 39.6% of the district's total population.