Kėdainiai District Municipality
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Kėdainiai District Municipality
Kėdainių rajono savivaldybė | |
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 Location of Kėdainiai district municipality within Lithuania | |
| Country |  Lithuania |
| Ethnographic region | Aukštaitija |
| County |  Kaunas County |
| Capital | Kėdainiai |
| Elderships [1] | List
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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[edit]
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[edit]
Ethnic composition[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ "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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