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Vilnius (/ ˈ v ɪ l n i ə s / ⓘ VIL-nee-əs, Lithuanian: [ˈvʲɪlʲnʲʊs] ⓘ) is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the most-populous city in the Baltic states.The city's estimated January 2025 population was 607,404, [7] and the Vilnius urban area (which extends beyond the city limits) has an estimated population of 747,864.
The Western Vilnius Region, including Vilnius, is now part of Lithuania. It constitutes about one-third of the total Vilnius Region. Lithuania gained about 6,880 km 2 (2,660 sq mi) on October 10, 1939, from the Soviet Union and 2,650 km 2 (1,020 sq mi) (including Druskininkai and Švenčionys ) on August 3, 1940, from the Byelorussian SSR.
Vilnius was a 2009 European Capital of Culture with Linz in Austria.[22] In 2021, the city was named one of fDi's 25 Global Cities of the Future.[23] Vilnius is considered a global financial centre, ranked 76th globally and 29th in Europe on the Global Financial Centres Index.[24] It hosted the 2023 NATO Summit. Vilnius is a member of ...
Module:Location map/data/Lithuania Vilnius is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Vilnius. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
The Old Town of Vilnius (Lithuanian: Vilniaus senamiestis), one of the largest surviving medieval old towns in Northern Europe, as inscribed within UNESCO World Heritage Sites, has an area of 3.59 square kilometres (887 acres). It encompasses 74 quarters, with 70 streets and lanes numbering 1487 buildings with a total floor area of 1,497,000 ...
Contour map of Lithuania indicating modern counties: Administrative ... Vilnius County (listen • info) Vilnius: 9,730 (1) 851,346 84 24.2 29,800 2,191 0.913
Lithuania – sovereign country located in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Situated along the south-eastern shore of the Baltic Sea , sharing borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland , and the Russian exclave of the Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest.
Vilnius County (Lithuanian: Vilniaus apskritis) is the largest of the 10 counties of Lithuania, located in the east of the country around the city Vilnius and is also known as Capital Region or Sostinės regionas by the Lithuanian statistics department and Eurostat.