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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.
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.
While Vilnius urban area occupies only most of Vilnius City and Vilnius District municipalities and a small part of Trakai District, Vilnius metropolitan region is a larger entity, occupying, depending on definition, most or all of Vilnius county, [7] at some cases, stretching also well into Alytus and Utena counties. [8]
Since 2022, Vilnius has been experiencing a large influx of foreign professionals, many of whom work in the CBD. [11] This area is called Naujasis miesto centras and abbreviated Vilniaus NMC in Lithuanian. [12] [13] [14] The Baltasis tiltas (White Bridge) connects the area with the Naujamiestis eldership. Vilnius government has created a ...
The district has significant Polish minority population in Lithuania, with 46% of the population claiming Polish ethnicity. [8] But the number has been dwindling from more than 80% in the late 1980s because of suburbanisation, age structure (younger newcomer inhabitants are mostly Lithuanians, while older population in villages are mostly Poles) and acculturation.
Neighborhoods of Vilnius (Lithuanian: Vilniaus seniūnijos) are administrative districts of Vilnius City Municipality. List ... 6,210.8 54.723397 25.249529 5
[3] [12] Vilnius was incorporated into the Russian Empire, and was its third-largest city at the beginning of the 19th century. [3] The city was again affected by the 1830 November Uprising and the January Uprising in 1863. [3] According to the 1897 Russian census, Vilnius had a population of 154,532 residents and the Vilna Governorate had ...
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.