Širvintos District Municipality ( lt, Širvintų rajono savivaldybė) is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...

, it is in territory of

Vilnius County Vilnius County ( lt, Vilniaus apskritis) is the largest of the 10 counties of Lithuania, located in the east of the country around the city Vilnius. On 1 July 2010, the county administration was abolished, and since that date, Vilnius County re ...

and its capital is

Širvintos Širvintos () is a city in Vilnius County in the eastern part of Lithuania. It is the administrative center of the Širvintos district municipality. The word ''Širvintos'' is the plural form of the name of the Širvinta River, which flows throug ...

Geography

The territory of the municipality is 906 km². Širvintos City, 5 towns – Bagaslaviškis, Čiobiškis, Gelvonai,

Kernavė Kernavė was a medieval capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and today is a tourist attraction and an archeological site (population 272, 2011). It is located in the Širvintos district municipality located in southeast Lithuania. A Lithuanian ...

, Musninkai and 485 villages are in the municipality.

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s occupy 27.7% of the whole region’s territory. The biggest rivers of the region are

Neris The river Neris () or Viliya ( be, Ві́лія, pl, Wilia ) rises in northern Belarus. It flows westward, passing through Vilnius (Lithuania's capital) and in the south-centre of that country it flows into the Nemunas (Neman), at Kaunas, as ...

, Širvinta and Musė. There are 28 lakes; the largest of them is Alys, which covers , and the deepest is Gelvė, which is deep.

Heritage

In the territory of the region are

’s Historical Reservation, botanical reserves for growing

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in Alionys, Bartkuškis (there's an old castle) and Lygaraistis, 6 parks and 2 nature monuments (Staškiūniškiai

Larch Larches are deciduous conifers in the genus ''Larix'', of the family Pinaceae (subfamily Laricoideae). Growing from tall, they are native to much of the cooler temperate northern hemisphere, on lowlands in the north and high on mountains furt ...

and the stone with a “devil’s footprint” in Dūdai). Also there are 50 archaeological monuments, 16 architectural monuments, 15 historical monuments and 78 art monuments, 18 manor houses with parks.

Population

According to the population census of 2001, 20,207 people live in the region: 9,545 men and 10,662 women. 7,273 people live in towns and 12,934 people live in villages. About 10% (2,019 people) declared Polish nationality.Świat Polonii - Stowarzyszenie Wspólnota Polska - Polonia i Polacy
/ref> There are 4,982 people of

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: 3,433 women and 1,549 men. 11,186 people are employed. 52% of all working people work in state institutions.

References

External links

Širvintos district municipality official page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sirvintos district municipality Municipalities of Vilnius County Municipalities of Lithuania