KAUNAS REGION
Territory
149,000 hectares, of which 55.03% are agricultural lands, 31.01% - forests, 5.23% - water areas, 4.09% - towns and residential areas, 2.28% - industrial companies and roads, and 2.36% - areas of other designation.
Population
84,500 inhabitants, of whom 26.04% reside in towns and 73.96% - in rural areas. Of the total, 47.1% are men, and 52.9% are women. Ethnic descent: 95% are Lithuanian, 0.9% - Polish, 3% - Russian, and 1.1% - of other descents.
Region facilities
23 subdisdricts, a post office, a railway junction, an airport, a hotel, a lodge, 23 pre-schools, 2 kindergarten-schools, 17 elementary schools, 14 schools of basic education, 13 secondary schools, 2 gymnasiums, 3 special schools, 2 sports schools, a music school, a school of agriculture, 3 colleges, an institution of higher education, 3 institutes of scientific research, 25 cultural centres, 21 Catholic churches, a house of worship, 6 museums, a library and its 33 branches, 2 sports centres, 39 health care facilities, 20 state owned companies, 14 public stock companies, 341 closed stock companies, 1,199 individually owned companies, and 49 agricultural enterprises.
From:
Acquaintance with Lithuania. BOOK OF THE MILLENIUM.-Volume One (The State).-K.-1999.
