Šilutė

Šilutė is a town in , near the border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast. It's a quiet market town with a population of 16,000 in 2021. The main reason to visit is to see wildlife in the Nemunas river delta and Curonian lagoon.
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  • Type: Town with 1,270 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Lithuania
  • Also known as: Rosnė”, “Rus”, “Rusnė”, “Russ”, and “Ruß

Places of Interest

Highlights include Evangelical Lutheran Church in Rusnė and Ragininkų sala.

Church

Island
is an island.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Šyškrantė and Šyša.

Village
is a village.

Village
Photo: Hugo.arg, Public domain.
is a village.

Village
Photo: Hugo.arg, Public domain.
is a village, which is situated 4 km northwest of Šilutė.

Šilutė

Latitude
55.2966° or 55° 17′ 48″ north
Longitude
21.3761° or 21° 22′ 34″ east
Population
1,270
Open location code
9G7379WG+MC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1744042651
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
595087
Wiki­data ID
Q1939758
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Satellite Map

Discover Šilutė from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Bashkir to Ukrainian—“Šilutė” goes by many names.
  • Bashkir: Русне
  • Belarusian: Русна
  • Belarusian: Русь
  • Catalan: Rosnė
  • Catalan: Ruß
  • Cebuano: Rusnė
  • Chinese: Rusnė
  • Chinese: 魯斯內
  • Czech: Rosnė
  • Czech: Rusnė
  • Czech: Ruß
  • Dutch: Rosnė
  • Dutch: Rusnė
  • Dutch: Ruß
  • Esperanto: Rosnė
  • Esperanto: Rusnė
  • Esperanto: Ruß
  • Estonian: Rusnė
  • Finnish: Rusnė
  • French: Rosnė
  • French: Rusnė
  • French: Ruß
  • German: Rosnė
  • German: Rusne
  • German: Rusnė
  • German: Ruß
  • Irish: Rusnė
  • Italian: Rosnė
  • Italian: Rusnė
  • Italian: Ruß
  • Japanese: ルスネー
  • Latvian: Rosnė
  • Latvian: Rusne
  • Latvian: Ruß
  • Lithuanian: Rosnė
  • Lithuanian: Rusnė
  • Lithuanian: Ruß
  • Min Nan Chinese: Rusnė
  • Polish: Ruś
  • Portuguese: Rosnė
  • Portuguese: Ruß
  • Russian: Русне
  • Samogitian: Rosnė
  • Slovak: Rusnė
  • Spanish: Rosnė
  • Spanish: Rusnė
  • Spanish: Ruß
  • Swedish: Rosnė
  • Swedish: Rusnė
  • Swedish: Ruß
  • Ukrainian: Русне
  • Rosnė

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Šilutė”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.