Šilutė, Klaipėda County, Lithuania
🇱🇹 Šilutė District Municipality is one of 60 municipalities in Lithuania. It is known for spring floods when ice on Nemunas River starts melting. This is the only municipality in Lithuania that gets flooded on regular basis.
Unemployment rate in the municipality dropped from 10.9% in January 2003 to 7.7% in January 2005. However, the national rate remains 1.2-1.7% lower.
Geography Total area of Šilutė District Municipality is 1706 km². Forests cover 340 km² or almost 20%, waters (most notably Nemunas Delta) - 348 km² or 20.4%, arable land - 611 km² or 35.8%, pastures and grasslands - 226 km² or 13.2%, buildings and roads - 60 km² or 3.5% of the territory.
Šilutė municipality includes the biggest part of Lithuania Minor in present-day Lithuania, with some Lietuvninkai' heritage. There are areas of unique nature in the district, dominated by lowland pastures. The picturesque Nemunas Delta and Ventė Cape is home to many local and migrating birds. Rusnė, a settlement located in the Nemunas Delta, is the only island town in Lithuania; some part of it situated below the sea level.
There are 318 villages. During the 2001 census, 12 villages had no residents. About 14,000 of the municipality residents are children younger than 15 year old and about 10,000 are elderly.
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Šilutė has a population of over 39,067 people. Šilutė also forms part of the wider Klaipėda County which has a population of over 319,958 people. Šilutė is situated south-east of Klaipėda.
Twin Towns, Sister Cities Šilutė has links with:
🇹🇷 Alanya, Turkey 🇮🇹 Cittaducale, Italy 🇩🇪 Emmerich am Rhein, Germany 🇵🇱 Gdańsk, Poland 🇸🇪 Ljungby, Sweden 🇵🇱 Ostróda, Poland 🇱🇻 Saldus, Latvia 🇺🇦 Skadovsk, Ukraine 🇷🇺 Slavsk, Russia 🇸🇪 Vellinge, Sweden🇭🇺 Nyíregyháza 21.727
Locations Near: Šilutė 21.4833,55.35
🇱🇹 Klaipėda 21.15,55.696 d: 43.8
🇱🇹 Tauragė 22.289,55.25 d: 52.2
🇷🇺 Kaliningrad 20.506,54.709 d: 94.7
🇱🇻 Liepāja 21.013,56.503 d: 131.5
🇵🇱 Bartoszyce 20.8,54.25 d: 129.9
🇵🇱 Giżycko 21.768,54.04 d: 146.8
🇵🇱 Mrągowo 21.3,53.867 d: 165.4
Antipodal to: Šilutė -158.517,-55.35
🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 15964.2
🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 15742.4
🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 15329.1
🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 15259.2
🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 11660.8
🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 11554.2
🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 11538.1
🇺🇸 Kahului -156.466,20.891 d: 11535.2