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At the time of the census in 2001, there were 103 cities, 244 towns, and some 21,000 villages in Lithuania. Since then three cities (Juodupė, Kulautuva, and Tyruliai) and two villages (Salakas and Jūrė) became towns. Therefore, during the Lithuanian census of 2011, there were 249 towns in Lithuania. According to Lithuanian law, a town is a ...
Detailed physical map of Lithuania. There are about 6,000 lakes in Lithuania, covering 950 km², or 1.5% of the territory of Lithuania.The lakes are not evenly distributed; most are situated in the Baltic Highlands, which begin near the border with Poland on the southeast and extend northward along the border with Belarus to Latvia.
The smallest cities in Lithuania that have below 1,000 inhabitants. The counties are ranked by number of cities and further ranked by the population of the largest one. Cities are ranked by the size of the population. Subačius, Obeliai, Vabalninkas, Pandėlys, Joniškėlis. Dūkštas, Kavarskas, Dusetos, Troškūnai.
The landscape is punctuated by 2,833 lakes larger than 1 hectare (2.5 acres) and 1,600 smaller ponds. [2] The majority of the lakes are found in the eastern part of the country. [2] Lithuania also has 758 rivers longer than 10 kilometres (6.2 mi). [2] The largest river is the Nemunas (total length 917 km (570 mi)), which originates in Belarus. [2]
Trakai (Trakai ⓘ; see names section for alternative and historic names) is a city and lake resort in Lithuania. It lies 28 kilometres (17 miles) west of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania or just 7 kilometres (4 miles) from the administrative limits of the Lithuanian capital city. Because of its proximity to Vilnius, Trakai is a popular ...
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".
The main article for this category is Town (Lithuania). Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML. GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Towns in Lithuania. See also category:Cities in Lithuania.
Acquired Vilnius Region was divided into three counties (Vilnius, Eišiškės, and Naujieji Švenčionys). [2] Therefore, at the end of 1939 Lithuania again had twenty three counties. Counties were further subdivided into townships (Lithuanian: singular – valsčius, plural – valsčiai). In 1933 there were 365 townships. [9]