SALCININKAI
REGION
Territory
149,200 hectares,
of which 44.71% are agricultural lands, 43,77% - forests, 1,74% - water
areas, 2,21% - towns and residential areas, 2,41% - industrial companies
and roads, and 5,16% - areas of other designation.
Population
39,900
inhabitants, of whom 25.62% reside in towns and 74.38% - in rural areas.
Of the total, 48.53% are men, and 51.47% are women. Ethnic descent: 9.4%
are Lithuanian, 79.6% - Polish, 5.8% - Russian, 3.8% Belorussian, and
1.4% - of other descents.
Region
facilities
15 subdisdricts,
16 post offices, a bus station, 2 railroad junctions, 2 hotels, a motel,
14 pre-schools, 31 elementary schools, 18 schools of basic education, 16
secondary schools, 6 special schools, a school of agriculture, 18
cultural centres, 31 Catholic churches, 5 houses of worship of other
confessions, a museum, 28 libraries, 130 archaeological, historical and
cultural monuments, a sports complex, 28 health care facilities, 2 state
owned companies, 17 public stock companies, 196 closed stock companies,
390 individually owned companies, 16 agricultural enterprises, and 74
companies of other status
Text and Photo from:
Acquaintance with
Lithuania. BOOK OF THE MILLENNIUM.
Volume One (The State).-K.-1999.
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