KEDAINIAI
REGION
Territory
167,700 hectares, of which 65.24% are agricultural lands, 23.67% - forests, 2.5% - water areas, 2.62% - towns and residential areas, 2.03% - industrial companies and roads, and 3.94% - areas of other designation.
Population
70,100 inhabitants, of whom 50.64% reside in towns and 49.36% - in rural areas. Of the total, 48.36% are men, and 51.64% - women. Ethnic descent: 92% are Lithuanian, 5% - Russian, 0.9% - Polish, and 2.1% - of other descents.
Region facilities
12 subdisdricts, 25 post offices, a bus station and a railroad junction, an aerodrome, 3 hotels, 14 pre-schools, 9 kindergarten-schools, 29 elementary schools, 12 schools of basic education, 14 secondary schools, a gymnasium, a youth school, a special school, a vocational school, 3 schools of agriculture, a college, 2 institutes of scientific, 71 cultural centres, 18 Catholic churches, 3 houses of worship of other confessions, 4 museums, 46 libraries, 403 archaeological, historical and cultural monuments, 43 health care facilities, 3 state owned companies, 15 public stock companies, 240 closed stock companies, 1,091 individually owned companies, 88 agricultural enterprises, and 144 companies of other status.
From: Acquaintance with Lithuania. BOOK OF THE MILLENIUM.-Volume One (The State).-K.-1999.
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