Rîbniţa sub-district, also spelled Râbniţa sub-district (Romanian: Rîbniţa, Râbniţa; Ukrainian: Рибниця, Rybnytsia; Russian: Рыбница, Rybnitsa, is an administrative sub-region of Transnistria, Moldova. Its seat is the city of Rîbniţa (Râbniţa). It is located at . The district contains this city and 22 communes (a total of 47 localities, including small villages/hamlets):
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Rîbniţa is located along the river Dniester, in the northern half of Transnsitria. According to the 2004 Census in Transnistria, the population of the sub-district is 82,699 people, including 24,729 (29.90%) Moldavians, 37,554 (45.41%) Ukrainians, 14,237 (17.22%) Russians, 149 (0.18%) Gagauzians, 309 (0.37%) Bulgarians, 51 (0.06%) Roma, 177 (0.64%) Jews, 528 (0.64%) Poles, 412 (0.50%) Belarusians, 150 (0.18%) Germans, 81 (0.10%) Armenians, and 4,322 (5.23%) others and non-declared.