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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Area (sq km) Founding Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone In the Other Atlases
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1. Kaunas (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationInfobox: population_total
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 Source3. GeoNames: Kaunas - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 598316
54.90156 23.90909 P PPLA LT 57 19 289380 96 Europe/Vilnius
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 96 m
View the Source 4. 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, 23.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 54.75, 23.75
54.75 23.75 Dfb
Wikidata: 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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