Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The territory of Lithuania is divided into 10 counties (Lithuanian: singular apskritis, plural apskritys), all named after their capitals. The counties are divided into 60 municipalities (Lithuanian: singular savivaldybė , plural savivaldybės ): 9 city municipalities, 43 district municipalities and 8 municipalities.
Forty years later the word "Lithuania" was dropped from the two names and official maps of Europe. The territory of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania became known as the Northwestern Krai . [ 2 ] In 1843 another administrative reform took place, creating Kovno Governorate out of seven western districts of the Vilna Governorate.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
This page was last edited on 4 December 2011, at 05:08 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Towns in Lithuania (singular: Lithuanian: miestelis, as diminutive of miestas) retain their historical distinctiveness even though for statistical purposes they are counted together with villages. At the time of the census in 2001 , there were 103 cities , 244 towns, and some 21,000 villages in Lithuania .
Vilnius is the largest city of Lithuania with urban population over 700,000 inhabitants. In Lithuania, there are 103 cities (miestai).The term city is defined by the Parliament of Lithuania as a compact urban area with more than 3,000 people, of whom at least two-thirds work in the industry or service sector.
Capitals of Lithuanian counties (10 C, 10 P) Categories by county of Lithuania (5 C) A. Alytus County (5 C, 2 P) K. Kaunas County (6 C, 3 P) Klaipėda County (5 C, 5 ...
Municipalities are established to perform certain functions provided by law.According to the abovementioned Republic of Lithuania Law on Local Self-Government, the functions of municipalities are "functions related to local government, public administration and provision of public services defined by the Constitution and attributed to municipalities by this and other laws".