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100,900 hectares, of which 60,85 % are agricultural lands, 27,06 % - forests, 2,87 % - water areas, 3,17 % - towns and residential areas, 2,18 % - industrial companies and roads, and 3,87 % - areas of other designation.
64,180 inhabitants, of whom 73 % reside in towns and 27 % - in rural areas. Ethnic descent: 93 % are Lithuanian, 5 % - Russian, 0,7 % - Byelorussia, 1,3 - of other descents.
Region facilities:
8 sub districts, 17 post offices, a bus station, 4 railway station, an aerodrome, a hotel, a motels, 12 pre-schools, a kindergarten-school, 16 elementary schools, 12 schools of basic education, 9 secondary schools, 2 gymnasiums, a special school, a school of technology, school of sports, arts, choreography, and music, the center of youth naturalists, a center of pupils’ technical activities, 18 cultural institutions, 14 Catholic churches, 3 houses of worship of other confession, 4 museums, 26 libraries, 392 archeological, historical, and cultural monuments, a theatre, a sports center, 30 health care facilities, more than 60 public stock companies.
From the “Acquaintance with Lithuania. Book of the Millennium“. Vilnius, 1999.
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