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118,800 hectares, of which 57,49 % are agricultural lands, 24,83 % - forests, 2,53 % - water areas, 2,1 % - towns and residential areas, 2,1 % - industrial companies and roads, and 10,95 % - areas and of other designation.
33,240 inhabitants, of whom 19,84 % reside in towns and 80,16 % - in rural areas. Of the total, 48,42 % are men, and 51,58 % are women. Ethnic descent: 99 % are Lithuanian, 1,0 % - of other descents.
Region facilities
13 sub districts, 14 post offices, a hotel, a motel, a bus station, 2 pre-schools, a kindergarten-school, 21 elementary schools, 14 schools of basic education, 7 secondary schools, a gymnasium, a school of agriculture, 2 institutions of additional education, a Sandy school of Evangelic-Lutherans, a institute of scientific research, 52 cultural institutions, 14 Catholic churches, a house of worship of other confession, 5 museums, 27 libraries, 263 archeological, historical, and cultural monuments, 34 health care facilities, 12 public stock companies, 74 closed stock companies, 575 individually owned companies, 23 agricultural enterprises, and 6 companies of other status.
From the “Acquaintance with Lithuania. Book of the Millennium“. Vilnius, 1999.
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