Place:Mažeikiai, Telšiai, Lithuania

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NameMažeikiai
Alt namesMažeikiaisource: Family History Library Catalog
Mažeikiaisource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Mažeikiai districtsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Mažeikių rajono savivaldybėsource: Wikipedia
Mažėikiu rajuona savivaldībėsource: Wikipedia
TypeDistrict Municipality
Coordinates56.317°N 22.333°E
Located inTelšiai, Lithuania
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Mažeikiai
Seda
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Mažeikiai District Municipality is located in the north-west of Lithuania, on the River Venta in Telšiai County. The administrative center of Mažeikiai District is the city of Mažeikiai. Its territory of is composed of of towns and settlements, of industrial enterprises and roads, of agricultural lands, of forests, and of tracts of other designation. There is one urban and 8 rural elderates. In 2003, the population was 67,393. Of this number, 46,223 live in towns and 21,170 in villages.

It is situated in northern Samogitia. Mažeikiai District borders with the Republic of Latvia in the north, with Akmenė District Municipality in the east, with Telšiai District Municipality in the southeast, with Plungė District Municipality in the southwest and with Skuodas District Municipality in the west. Mažeikiai District stretches for east-to-west and north-to-south. Petraičiai village is the westernmost settlement, with Kalniškiai and Pakliaupė villages being the easternmost settlements. The northernmost is Giniočiai, while the southernmost is Pasruojė.

Mažeikiai District Municipality is one of the more populous administrative district municipalities (municipalities, covering mostly rural regions and smaller towns rather than major cities). The region is crossed by important railway lines: Liepāja (Republic of Latvia) – Šiauliai – Kaunas – Vilnius and Riga (Republic of Latvia) – Mažeikiai – Klaipėda. However, they are currently no longer used for passenger transportation.

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The Memorial Website to the destroyed Shtetl of Mazheik (Mazeikiai

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