LAZDIJAI
REGION
Territory
154,200 hectares, of which 43.25% are agricultural lands, 35.79% - forests, 7.45% - water areas, 2.07% - towns and residential areas, 2.46% - industrial companies and roads, and 8.98% - areas of other designation.
Population
33,000 inhabitants, of whom 24.4% reside in towns and 75.6 % in rural areas. Of the total, 46.5% are men, and 53.5% - women. Ethnic descent: 98.6% are Lithuanian, 0.5% - Polish, 0.4% - Russian, 0.5% - of other descents.
Region facilities
15 subdisdricts, 18 post offices, a bus station, a railway station, telecommunication service, a tourist information centre, 6 hotels, 4 pre-schools, 2 kindergarten-schools, 22 elementary schools, 11 schools of basic education, 10 secondary schools, a school of agriculture, children rehabilitation centre, 2institutions of additional education, 22 cultural centres, 16 Catholic churches, a house of worship of other confessions, 12 museums, 31 libraries, 44 health care facilities, 2 state owned companies, 6 public stock companies, 90 closed stock companies, 400 individually owned companies, an agricultural enterprise, and 40 companies of other status.
From: Acquaintance with Lithuania. BOOK OF THE MILLENIUM.-Volume One (The State).-K.-1999.
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