Kaunas is the second-largest city in Lithuania and the fourth-largest in the Baltic states, an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic and cultural life. It was the largest city and centre of Kaunas County in the Duchy of Trakai of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Trakai Palatinate from 1413, and later the capital of the Kaunas Governorate in the Russian Empire from 1843 to 1915.
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1. Kaunas (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationInfobox, population
population = 304,198
- In Group: Cities of Northern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
View the Source 2. Kaunas (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 54.9, longitude 23.933333
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 48 m
P2046 (area)
area 157.0 sq km
View the SourceWikidata: Kaunas
Wikidata Q4115712, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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