Širvintos District Municipality () is a

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

Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, 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, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...

, it is in territory of

Vilnius County Vilnius County () is the largest of the 10 counties of Lithuania, located in the east of the country around the city Vilnius and is also known as Capital Region or Sostinės regionas by the State Data Agency, Lithuanian statistics department and ...

and its capital is

Širvintos Širvintos () is a city in Vilnius County in eastern Lithuania. It is the administrative center of the Širvintos district municipality. Etymology The town's name is a place name derived from the river Širvinta, which flows through it. Širvi ...

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 238, 2021). It is located in the Širvintos district municipality located in southeast Lithuania. A Lithuanian ...

, Musninkai and 485 villages are in the municipality.

Forest A forest is an ecosystem characterized by a dense ecological community, community of trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, ...

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

Neris The river Neris () or Vilija (, ) 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) from the right bank, at Kaunas, as its ma ...

Širvinta The Širvinta is a river in Lithuania. Stretching for 129 km, it is the longest tributary of the Šventoji. Its source is in the hinterlands of the Širvintos district. After it passes through the town of Širvintos, where a low head dam h ...

and Musė. There are 28 lakes; the largest of them is

Alys Alys is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include: * Alys, Countess of the Vexin (c. 1160–1220), French princess * Alys Clare (born 1944), English historical novelist * Alys Faiz (1914–2003), Pakistani poet, writer, journalist ...

, 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

cranberries Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the subgenus ''Oxycoccus'' of the genus ''Vaccinium''. Cranberries are low, creeping shrubs or vines up to long and in height; they have slender stems that are not t ...

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 the cooler regions of the northern hemisphere, where they are found in lowland forests in the high la ...

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