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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.
It declared that Lithuania was divided into twenty counties (Lithuanian: singular – apskritis, plural – apskritys). Several more counties (including Zarasai , Naujieji Švenčionys , Vilnius , Eišiškės , Lida , Ashmyany and Hrodna ) were reserved for territories in the Vilnius Region , that Lithuania had claims to, but were under Polish ...
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 ...
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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.
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".
Klaipėda County (Lithuanian: Klaipėdos apskritis) [3] is one of ten counties in Lithuania, bordering Tauragė County to the southeast, Telšiai County to the northeast, Kurzeme in Latvia to the north, and Kaliningrad Oblast in Russia to the south. To the west is the Baltic Sea. It lies in the west of the country and is the only county to have ...
Alytus County (Lithuanian: Alytaus apskritis) is one of ten counties in Lithuania. It is the southernmost county, and its capital is the city of Alytus. Its territory lies within the ethnographic region of Dzūkija. On 1 July 2010, the county administration was abolished, [3] and since that date, Alytus County remains as the territorial and ...