Place:Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania

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NameVilnius
Alt namesVilniussource: Britannica Book of the Year (1992) p 645
Vilnius districtsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeDistrict Municipality
Coordinates54.667°N 25.333°E
Located inVilnius, Lithuania
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Maišiagala
Medininkai
Nemenčinė
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Vilnius District Municipality is one of 60 municipalities in Lithuania. It surrounds the capital city of Vilnius on 3 sides, while the rest borders the Trakai District Municipality.

At the 2011 Census, Poles amounted to 52.07% out of 95,348 inhabitants. 32.47% were Lithuanians, 8.01% Russians, 4.17% Belarusians, 0.65% Ukrainians and 0.11% Jews.

In 2021, according to the census results, ethnographic composition was the following: Lithuanians – 38.52%, Lithuanian Poles – 46.75%, Lithuanian Russians – 7.35%, Lithuanian Belarusians – 3.26%, Ukrainians – 0.63%, Other – 0.86% and 2.64% of inhabitants did not declare their ethnographic identity.

The population grew to 108,948 in January 2022 because of migration of Vilnius citizens to the suburbs.

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