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The territory of Lithuania is divided into 10 counties (Lithuanian: singular apskritis, plural apskritys). They all have the same name as after their capitals.
The counties are divided into 60 municipalities (Lithuanian: singular savivaldybė, plural savivaldybės): 9 city municipalities, 43 district municipalities and 8 municipalities.
Each municipality is then divided into elderates (Lithuanian: singular seniūnija, plural seniūnijos).
This division was created in 1994 and slightly modified in 2000.
This map shows counties as well as municipalities. Eight city municipalities and two municipalities are marked by numbers:
1 – Vilnius City Municipality |
4 – Panevėžys City Municipality |
7 – Birštonas Municipality |
# | County (media help) | Capital | Area in km2 (rank) | Population (2022) | Pop. density (per km2) | GDP (nominal) (billion EUR)[1] | GDP (per capita) (EUR) | Average salary (EUR)[2] | HDI (2022) [3] | Municipalities |
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1 | Alytus County (listen • info) |
Alytus | 5,418 (6) | 142,000 | 25 | 1.4 | 10,600 | 1,306 | 0.836 |
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2 | Kaunas County (listen • info) |
Kaunas | 8,086 (3) | 594,000 | 70 | 10.2 | 18,000 | 1,613 | 0.877 |
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3 | Klaipėda County (listen • info) |
Klaipėda | 5,222 (7) | 333,000 | 61 | 5.3 | 16,400 | 1,488 | 0.871 |
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4 | Marijampolė County (listen • info) |
Marijampolė | 4,466 (8) | 129,000 | 31 | 1.5 | 10,800 | 1,284 | 0.825 |
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5 | Panevėžys County (listen • info) |
Panevėžys | 7,878 (4) | 204,000 | 27 | 2.7 | 13,000 | 1,369 | 0.842 |
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6 | Šiauliai County (listen • info) |
Šiauliai | 8,537 (2) | 274,000 | 31 | 3.5 | 13,400 | 1,362 | 0.841 |
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7 | Tauragė County (listen • info) |
Tauragė | 4,349 (9) | 100,000 | 21 | 0.9 | 9,700 | 1,257 | 0.811 |
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8 | Telšiai County (listen • info) |
Telšiai | 4,350 (10) | 147,000 | 30 | 1.6 | 12,600 | 1,397 | 0.842 |
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9 | Utena County (listen • info) |
Utena | 7,191 (5) | 142,000 | 18 | 1.3 | 10,500 | 1,306 | 0.825 |
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10 | Vilnius County (listen • info) |
Vilnius | 9,730 (1) | 837,000 | 84 | 21.1 | 25,600 | 1,769 | 0.907 |
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Lithuania | Vilnius | 65,300 | 2,902,000 | 43 | 49.5 | 17,700 | 1,598 | 0.869 |
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