Silute Region Municipality
S. Dariaus ir S. Gireno g. 1, LT-5730 Silute.
Tel.: (+370 40) 7 92 27, 7 92 30, fax: 5 15 17
E-mail: balvocius@post.omnitel.net 
Internet page: http://kisav.snt.lt 

Territory

224,300 hectares, o which 54,7% are agricultural lands, 18,84 % - forests, 16,4 % - water areas, 2 % - towns and residential areas, 2 % - industrial companies and roads, and 6,06 % - areas of other designation.

Population

70,000 inhabitants. Of the total, 48,25 are men, and 51,75 % are women. Ethnic descent: 95,4 % are Lithuanian, 3,2 % - Russian, 0,3 % - Polish, 0,3 % - Belorussian, 0,3 % - Ukrainian, 0,5 % - of other descents.

Region facilities

14 sub districts, 24 post offices, a bus station, 2 railway junctions, a tourist information center, 8 hotels, 11 pre-schools, 5 kindergarten-schools, 34 elementary schools, 15 schools of basic education, 15 secondary schools, 15 gymnasiums, a youth school, 3 vocational schools, a school of agriculture, 3 institutes of scientific research and their branches, 69 cultural institutions, 14 Catholic churches, a museum, 34 libraries, 2 sports complexes, 42 health care facilities, 3 state owned companies, 20 public stock companies, 240 closed stock companies, 1,318 individually owned companies, 112 agricultural enterprises, and 20 companies of other status.

From the “Acquaintance with Lithuania. Book of the Millennium“. Vilnius, 1999.

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