Šalčininkai District Municipality
Municipality in Dzūkija, Lithuania / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Šalčininkai District Municipality (Lithuanian: Šalčininkų rajono savivaldybė) is one of 60 district municipalities in Lithuania. The municipality is part of the Vilnius County and is located in southeastern Lithuania, next to the Belarus–Lithuania border.[1] The south-eastern border of the municipality with Belarus includes a distinctive salient of Lithuanian territory, known as the Dieveniškės appendix, almost completely surrounded by Belarus.
Šalčininkai District Municipality
Šalčininkų rajono savivaldybė | |
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Country | Lithuania |
Ethnographic region | Dzūkija |
County | Vilnius County |
Capital | Šalčininkai |
Elderships | List
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Area | |
• Total | 1,491 km2 (576 sq mi) |
Population (2021) | |
• Total | 30,052 |
• Density | 20/km2 (52/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Major settlements |
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Website | www |
Šalčininkai is the largest town and the administrative center of the district with its newly built quarters, while the second largest town is Eišiškės, a more historical town, which was the center of the district and the largest town before 1972.
It has a Polish majority population, with three-quarters of the population claiming Polish ethnicity.[2]