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: singular - ''savivaldybė'', plural - ''savivaldybės''). There are three types of municipalities:
  • District municipalities (Lithuanian: ''rajono savivaldybė'') - there are 43 district municipalities that roughly correspond to districts that existed under the Soviet Rule . It is quite common to refer to these as simply districts because the word "municipality" was only added in 1994. These districts were created as a local version of Raion s.

  • City municipalities (Lithuanian: ''miesto savivaldybė'') - there are 8 city municipalities. Six of these are based on the 6 Largest Cities . These 6 cities are also capitals of their corresponding district municipalities, thus these city municipalities could correspond to Urban municipalities, while the district municipalities are Rural . The special status of Visaginas City Municipality (based on the 13th largest city) can be explained by the fact that the majority of the residents are Russians . Palanga City Municipality is called this despite actually including a group of popular sea Resort s rather than a single city.

  • Municipalities - there are 9 municipalities created in 2000 by "Municipalities Reform Act." They do not contain either "city" or "district" in their name. Neringa Municipality existed before as Neringa city municipality.


All municipalities, with two exceptions, .


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This map shows counties as well as municipalities. Eight city municipalities and two municipality are marked by numbers:


NOTES AND REFERENCES

  • The capital is not part of that municipality, however the municipality council and other institutions are located in that city.

  • Territory, population size (rounded up), and density are given according to Table: Total area, population and density (data from 2001 census), Statistics Lithuania (2006). Demographic Statistics Division. Regional Database. Retrieved 30 January 2006.

  • Number of elderates was obtained from Counties at Lithuanian Central Internet Gates (2006) and was cross-referenced with the official website of every municipality. Dash (-) indicates that there are no elderates in that particular municipality.



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