Kaunas
Visited in August 2018
At a glance
- Country
- Lithuania
- Region
- Kaunas City Municipality
- Population
- 305,120
- Type
- City and administrative center of Kaunas County in Lithuania
- Coordinates
- 54.90°N, 23.93°E
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Overview
Kaunas is the second-largest city in Lithuania (after Vilnius), the fourth-largest city in the Baltic states, and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the largest city and the centre of Kaunas County in the Duchy of Trakai of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Trakai Palatinate since 1413. In the Russian Empire, it was the capital of the Kaunas Governorate from 1843 to 1915.
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