Trakai is a city and lake resort in Lithuania, about 28 kilometers west of Vilnius, and is the administrative center of Trakai district municipality. First mentioned in 1337 and granted town rights in 1409, it was once the medieval capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and is home to Trakai Island Castle, built under Grand Duke Vytautas as a residence for the Grand Dukes of Lithuania. The city has long been home to people of different nationalities, including Karaims, Tatars, Lithuanians, Russians, Jews and Poles, and as of the 2021 census had a population of 5,426 across an area of 11.5 square kilometers.
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Founding Year Climate Zone Sources
1. Trakai (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)Quote, P1082 (population)
population 5,912 (2023)
2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 54.75, 24.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 54.75, 24.75
54.75 24.75 Dfb
3. GeoNames: Trakai - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 593871, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 593871, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
54.63783 24.93433 P PPL LT 65 79 7994 5530 152 Europe/Vilnius
Trakai (Wikipedia)
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Trakai (; Polish: Troki Polish: [ˈtrɔki]; see names section for alternative and historic names) is a city and lake resort in Lithuania.
- In Group: Cities of Northern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
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