Lanchkhuti

Lanchkhuti (Georgian: ლანჩხუთი) is a city in the Georgian region of Guria. It has a population of about 6,395.^[2]

Lanchkhuti ლანჩხუთი
City
View of Lanchkhuti from a nearby village
Lanchkhuti ლანჩხუთი Location in Georgia Show map of Guria Lanchkhuti ლანჩხუთი Lanchkhuti ლანჩხუთი (Georgia) Show map of Georgia
Coordinates: 42°5′15″N 42°2′10″E
Country	Georgia
Region	Guria
District	Lanchkhuti
Elevation	25 m (82 ft)
Population  (2024)[1]
• Total	6,213
Time zone	UTC+4 (Georgian Time)

Lanchkhuti received city status in 1961. Under the USSR, it was the centre of the Georgian SSR Lanchkhuti area and today continues to serve as the capital of the eponymous district within the Guria region.

Lanchkhuti is an industrial town with a tea processing factory, cannery, meat and dairy factory and a brick and tile factory. The town is served by a railway station on the Samtredia-Batumi line.

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

• Cody, Wyoming, United States^[3]
• Kupiškis District Municipality, Lithuania

Sports

The local football club is FC Guria Lanchkhuti, who play their home games at the Evgrapi Shevardnadze Stadium. They played one season in the Soviet Top League and won the 1990 Georgian Cup.

See also

• Guria

References

1. "Population by regions". National Statistics Office of Georgia. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
2. "Population Census 2014". www.geostat.ge. National Statistics Office of Georgia. November 2014. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
3. "Archived copy". legacy.sistercities.org. Archived from the original on 2019-08-06. Retrieved 2019-08-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)