Šilutė District Municipality
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- Type: district municipality of Lithuania with 42,500 residents
- Description: district municipality of Lithuania
- Also known as: “88”, “Silute”, and “Šilutės rajono savivaldybė”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Macikai POW and GULAG Camps and Šilutė train station.
Macikai POW and GULAG Camps
Museum
Photo: Žiedas, Public domain.
Macikai POW and GULAG Camps is location of the German, later Soviet prisoner-of-war camp and the Soviet GULAG forced labor camp located near the village of Macikai in German-occupied Lithuania and later, the Lithuanian SSR.
Šilutė train station
Railway station
Photo: Pegasas, Public domain.
Šilutė train station is a railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Šilutė and Traksėdžiai.
Šilutė
Town
Šilutė is a city in the south of the Klaipėda County in western Lithuania. The city is part of the Klaipėda Region and ethnographic Lithuania Minor. Šilutė was the interwar capital of Šilutė County and is currently the capital of Šilutė District Municipality.
Macikai
Village
Photo: Žiedas, Public domain.
Macikai is a village in Šilutė District Municipality, Lithuania, 2 km east of Šilute. The village is within the Lithuanian Coastal Lowlands. The Šyša river flows around Macikai along its northwestern and northeastern edges.
Šilutė District Municipality
- Location: Klaipėda County, Lithuania, Baltic states, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Urdu—“Šilutė District Municipality” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Distritu de Šilutė”
- Belarusian: “Шылакарчмянскі раён”
- Belarusian: “Шылуцкі раён”
- Catalan: “Districte municipal de Šilutė”
- Cebuano: “Šilutė (munisipyo sa Litwanya)”
- Cebuano: “Šilutė”
- Chinese: “Šilutė Koān Chū-tī-thé”
- Chinese: “希盧泰區”
- Czech: “okres Šilutė”
- Czech: “Šilutės rajono savivaldybė”
- Dutch: “Šilutė”
- Esperanto: “Komunumo Šilutė”
- Estonian: “Šilutė rajoon”
- Finnish: “Šilutėn kunnallispiiri”
- French: “municipalité du district de Šilutė”
- French: “Municipalité du district de Šilutė”
- French: “Šilutė”
- Georgian: “შილუტის რაიონი”
- German: “Landkreis Šilutė”
- German: “Rajongemeinde Šilutė”
- German: “Rayonsgemeinde Šilutė”
- Hebrew: “שילוטה”
- Italian: “comune distrettuale di Šilutė”
- Italian: “Comune distrettuale di Šilutė”
- Italian: “Municipalità del distretto di Šilutė”
- Korean: “실루테구”
- Latvian: “Šilutes rajona pašvaldība”
- Latvian: “Šilutės rajono savivaldybė”
- Latvian: “Šilutes rajons”
- Lithuanian: “Šilutės r. sav.”
- Lithuanian: “Šilutės rajonas”
- Lithuanian: “Šilutės rajono savivaldybė”
- Lombard: “Municipalitaa distrecc da Šilutė”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Šilutė Koān Chū-tī-thé”
- Northern Frisian: “Šilutė (Lungemeend)”
- Northern Frisian: “Šilutė”
- Polish: “Rejon szyłokarczemski”
- Russian: “Шилутский район Литвы”
- Russian: “Шилутский район”
- Russian: “Шилутское районное самоуправление”
- Samogitian: “Šėlotės rajuona savėvaldībė”
- Samogitian: “Šėlotės rajuona savivaldībė”
- Samogitian: “Šėlotės rajuons”
- Samogitian: “Šėlōtės rajuons”
- Slovak: “okres Šilutė”
- Slovenian: “Rajonska občina Šilutė”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Šilutė”
- Swedish: “Šilutė (kommun i Litauen)”
- Swedish: “Šilutė landskommun”
- Ukrainian: “Шилутський район”
- Urdu: “شیلوتے ضلع بلدیہ”
- “Šėlotės rajuons”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Barzdūnai and Verdainė.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Stotis Šilutė and Šyšos Miškas.
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