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Municipalities of Lithuania is the second-level administrative division of Lithuania. The first-level division consists of 10 counties (Lithuanian: singular – apskritis, plural – apskritys) that are further sub-divided into 60 municipalities (Lithuanian: singular – savivaldybė, plural – savivaldybės). There are three types of municipalities:
- District municipalities (Lithuanian: rajono savivaldybė) – there are 43 district municipalities that roughly correspond to districts that existed under the Soviet rule. It is quite common to refer to these as simply districts because the word "municipality" was only added in 1994. These districts were created as a local version of raions.
- City municipalities (Lithuanian: miesto savivaldybė) – there are 8 city municipalities. Six of these are based on the 6 largest cities. These 6 cities are also capitals of their corresponding district municipalities, thus these city municipalities could correspond to urban municipalities, while the district municipalities are rural. The special status of Visaginas city municipality (based on the 13th largest city) can be explained by the fact that the majority of the residents are Russians. Palanga city municipality is called this despite actually including a group of popular sea resorts rather than a single city.
- Municipalities – there are 9 municipalities created in 2000 by "Municipalities Reform Act." They do not contain either "city" or "district" in their name. Neringa municipality existed before as Neringa city municipality.
All municipalities, with three exceptions, Klaipėda district municipality (capital Gargždai), Akmenė district municipality (capital Naujoji Akmenė) and Neringa municipality (capital Nida), are named after their capitals. Municipalities are further sub-divided into more than 500 elderates (Lithuanian: singular – seniūnija, plural – seniūnijos). For more information, see Subdivisions of Lithuania.
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This map shows counties as well as municipalities. Eight city municipalities and two municipality are marked by numbers: 
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Notes and references
- ^ a b c "M3010211: >>>Total area and population by administrative territory". Department of Statistics to the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. http://db1.stat.gov.lt/statbank/SelectVarVal/Define.asp?Maintable=M3010211&PLanguage=1. Retrieved 2008-08-03.
- ^ a b c d e The capital is not part of that municipality, however the municipality council and other institutions are located in that city.
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