Kėdainiai District Municipality
Kėdainiai District Municipality
Kėdainių rajono savivaldybė | |
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Coat of arms | |
Location of Kėdainiai district municipality within Lithuania | |
Country | Lithuania |
Ethnographic region | Aukštaitija |
County | Kaunas County |
Capital | Kėdainiai |
Elderships[1] | show
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Government | |
• Mayor | Valentinas Tamulis |
Area | |
• Municipality | 167,700 ha (414,400 acres) |
• Water | 4,200 ha (10,400 acres) 2.5% |
• Forest | 39,700 ha (98,100 acres) |
Population | |
• Municipality | 47,872 |
• Density | 29/km2 (74/sq mi) |
• Urban | 24,093 |
• Rural | 23,779 |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Telephone code | 347 |
ISO 3166 code | LT-18 |
Major settlements |
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Website | www |
Kėdainiai District Municipality (Lithuanian: Kėdainių rajono savivaldybė) is one of 60 municipalities in Lithuania, located in the central part of the country.
Structure[]
District structure:
- 1 city – Kėdainiai;
- 10 towns – Akademija, Kėdainiai, Dotnuva, Gudžiūnai, Josvainiai, Krakės, Pagiriai, Pernarava, Surviliškis, Šėta and Truskava;
- 534 villages.
- 11 elderships – Dotnuva Eldership, Gudžiūnai Eldership, Josvainiai Eldership, Kėdainiai City Eldership, Krakės Eldership, Pelėdnagiai Eldership, Pernarava Eldership, Surviliškis Eldership, Šėta Eldership, Truskava Eldership, Vilainiai Eldership.
Population[]
Ethnic composition[]
Ethnic composition of Kėdainiai District Municipality according to the 2011 census:[5]
- Lithuanians – 95.78% (51,777);
- Russians – 2.17% (1,171);
- Poles – 0.61% (329);
- Ukrainians – 0.28% (150);
- Belarussians – 0.26% (139);
- Romani – 0.07% (40);
- Germans – 0.03% (17);
- Others – 0.8% (434).
Largest settlements[]
Largest cities or towns in Kėdainiai District Municipality
2011 Lithuanian Census | |||||||||
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Rank | Eldership | Pop. | |||||||
Kėdainiai Vilainiai |
1 | Kėdainiai | Kėdainiai City Eldership | 26648 | Josvainiai Pelėdnagiai | ||||
2 | Vilainiai | Vilainiai Eldership | 1330 | ||||||
3 | Josvainiai | Josvainiai Eldership | 1057 | ||||||
4 | Pelėdnagiai | Pelėdnagiai Eldership | 1016 | ||||||
5 | Šėta | Šėta Eldership | 935 | ||||||
6 | Vainotiškiai | Dotnuva Eldership | 909 | ||||||
7 | Krakės | Krakės Eldership | 841 | ||||||
8 | Akademija | Dotnuva Eldership | 752 | ||||||
9 | Labūnava | Pelėdnagiai Eldership | 747 | ||||||
10 | Dotnuva | Dotnuva Eldership | 687 |
References[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kėdainiai District Municipality. |
- ^ "Seniūnijos" [Elderships] (in Lithuanian). Kėdainiai District Municipality. 9 April 2018. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
- ^ "Kėdainiai district municipality". Lithuania's Department of Statistics. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
- ^ "Lietuvos apskritys. Gyventojai" [Districts of Lithuania. Population] (PDF) (in Lithuanian). Lithuania's Department of Statistics. 2017. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
- ^ "Lietuvai 100". lietuva.lt. Archived from the original on 1 September 2005. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
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Coordinates: 55°18′54″N 23°57′07″E / 55.31500°N 23.95194°E
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