SIAULIAI
REGION
Territory
181,900 hectares, of which 56,4 % are agricultural areas, 31,61 % - forests,
8,57 % - water areas, and 11,43 % - areas of other designation.
Population
146,800 inhabitants. Of the total 46,32 % are men, and 53,68 % are women.
Ethnic descent: 85 % are Lithuanian, 10,5 % - Russian, 1,9 % - Ukrainian, 0,9 %
- Byelorussia, 0,3 - Polish, 0,3 % - Jewish, and 1,1 % - of other descents.
Region facilities
10 sub districts, 26 post offices, a bus station, railroad junction, a hotel,
11 pre-schools, 5 kindergarten-schools, 8 elementary schools, 19 schools of
basic education, 8 secondary schools, a gymnasium, 3 children care homes, a
vocational school, a school of agriculture, 26 cultural institutions, 16
Catholic churches, 13 museums, 35 libraries, 470 archeological, historical, and
cultural monuments, theatre, a sport center, 3 state owned companies, 12 public
stock companies, 156 closed stock companies, 878 individually owned companies,
67 agricultural enterprises, and 20 companies of other status.
From the “Acquaintance with Lithuania. Book of the Millennium“.
Vilnius, 1999.
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