Kaunas

Kaunas at the edge of region is the second-largest city in Lithuania, with a population of 304,000 in 2024. The main reason to visit is its Old Town, connected to the 19th-century New Town along Laisvės alėja.
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  • Type: City with 316,000 residents
  • Description: city and administrative center of Kaunas County in Lithuania
  • Also known as: “Kauno”, “Kouna”, “Koŭna”, “Koŭnia”, “Kovna”, “Kovne”, “Kovno”, “Palemonas”, “Категорија:Каунас”, “Ковна”, “Ковно”, “Коўня”, “קאונס”, “カウエン”, “カウナ”, “カウネ”, and “カウノ”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Žalgiris arena and Museum of Devils.

Sports venue
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Žalgirio Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New Town of Kaunas, Lithuania. The arena is located on an island of the Nemunas River and is the largest indoor arena in .

Museum
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Žmuidzinavičius Museum, also known as the Devil Museum, is a museum in Kaunas, , dedicated to collecting and exhibiting sculptures and carvings of devils from all over the world.

Church
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Archcathedral Basilica of Apostles St. Peter and St. Paul of Kaunas is a Roman Catholic Archcathedral basilica in Kaunas, , the seat of the Archbishop of Kaunas.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aleksotas and Eiguliai.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a neighborhood in the city of Kaunas, . elderate encompass , Kleboniškis and part of neighbourhoods. Elderate itself is located on the left bank of the River.

Suburb
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is a neighborhood of the city of Kaunas. In 2005, its population was 12,000 in an area of 78,39 ha. In is a Kaunas VDU Rasos Gymnasium with 110 employees and Polyclinic with 415 employees.

Kaunas

Latitude
54.8982° or 54° 53′ 54″ north
Longitude
23.9045° or 23° 54′ 16″ east
Population
316,000
Elevation
96 metres (315 feet)
IATA airport code
KUN
United Nations Location Code
LT KUN
Open location code
9G65VWX3+7Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27193090
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
598316
Wiki­data ID
Q4115712
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kaunas” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kaunas”
  • Albanian: “Kaunas”
  • Amharic: “ካውናስ”
  • Arabic: “كاوناس”
  • Aragonese: “Kaunas”
  • Armenian: “Կաունաս”
  • Asturian: “Kaunas”
  • Aymara: “Kawnas”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kaunas”
  • Balinese: “Kaunas”
  • Basque: “Kaunas”
  • Belarusian: “Каўнас”
  • Belarusian: “Коўна”
  • Bengali: “কাউনাস”
  • Bengali: “কুনাস”
  • Bosnian: “Kaunas”
  • Breton: “Kaunas”
  • Bulgarian: “Каунас”
  • Catalan: “Kaunas”
  • Cebuano: “Kaunas (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Kaunas”
  • Central Kurdish: “کاوناس”
  • Chechen: “Каунас”
  • Chinese: “考納斯”
  • Chinese: “考纳斯”
  • Chinese: “考那斯”
  • Church Slavic: “Ковъно”
  • Church Slavic: “Ковьно”
  • Chuvash: “Каунас”
  • Cornish: “Kaunas”
  • Croatian: “Kaunas”
  • Czech: “Kaunas”
  • Danish: “Kaunas”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kaunas”
  • Dutch: “Kaunas”
  • Eastern Mari: “Каунас”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاوناس”
  • Esperanto: “Kaŭno”
  • Estonian: “Kaunas”
  • Ewe: “Kaunas”
  • Extremaduran: “Kaunas”
  • Fijian: “Kaunas”
  • Finnish: “Kaunas”
  • French: “Kaunas”
  • Galician: “Kaunas”
  • Ganda: “Kaunas”
  • Georgian: “კაუნასი”
  • German: “Kaunas”
  • German: “Kauen” (historical)
  • Greek: “Κάουνας”
  • Gujarati: “કોનાસ”
  • Hausa: “Kaunas”
  • Hebrew: “קובנה”
  • Hindi: “कौनास”
  • Hungarian: “Kaunas”
  • Icelandic: “Kaunas”
  • Ido: “Kaunas”
  • Indonesian: “Kaunas”
  • Interlingue: “Kaunas”
  • Inuktitut: “ᑯᓇᔅ/kunas”
  • Inuktitut: “ᑯᓇᔅ”
  • Irish: “Kaunas”
  • Italian: “Kaunas”
  • Japanese: “カウナス”
  • Javanese: “Kaunas”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kaunas”
  • Kannada: “ಕೌನಸ್”
  • Kashubian: “Kaunas”
  • Kazakh: “Каунас”
  • Kirghiz: “Каунас”
  • Komi: “Каунас”
  • Korean: “카우나스”
  • Kotava: “Kaunas”
  • Kurdish: “Kaunas”
  • Ladino: “Kaunas”
  • Latgalian: “Kaune”
  • Latin: “Couna”
  • Latvian: “Kauņa”
  • Limburgan: “Kaunas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kaunas”
  • Lombard: “Kaunas”
  • Low German: “Kaunas”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kaunas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kaunas”
  • Macedonian: “Каунас”
  • Malagasy: “Kaunas”
  • Malay: “Kaunas”
  • Maltese: “Kaunas”
  • Maori: “Kaunas”
  • Marathi: “कॉनास”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kaunas”
  • Mingrelian: “კაუნასი”
  • Moksha: “Каунас”
  • Mongolian: “Каунас”
  • Nauru: “Kaunas”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kaunas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaunas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kaunas”
  • Norwegian: “Kaunas”
  • Novial: “Kaunas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kaunas”
  • Oromo: “Kaunas”
  • Ossetian: “Каунас”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਉਨਾਸ”
  • Persian: “کاوناس”
  • Piemontese: “Kaunas”
  • Polish: “Kauen” (historical)
  • Polish: “Kowno”
  • Portuguese: “Caunas”
  • Portuguese: “Kaunas”
  • Pushto: “کاوناس”
  • Pushto: “کاونس”
  • Romanian: “Kaunas”
  • Russian: “Каунас”
  • Rusyn: “Каунас”
  • Samogitian: “Kauns”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Kaunas”
  • Scots: “Kaunas”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kaunas”
  • Serbian: “Каунас”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kaunas”
  • Silesian: “Kaunas”
  • Sinhala: “කොනාස්”
  • Slovak: “Kaunas”
  • Slovenian: “Kaunas”
  • Somali: “Kaunas”
  • Spanish: “Kaunas”
  • Swahili: “Kaunas”
  • Swedish: “Kaunas”
  • Tajik: “Каунас”
  • Tajik: “Ковнос”
  • Tamil: “கானாஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Каунас”
  • Telugu: “కౌనస్”
  • Thai: “เกานัส”
  • Thai: “เคานัส”
  • Turkish: “Kaunas”
  • Ukrainian: “Каунас”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kaunas”
  • Urdu: “کاوناس”
  • Urdu: “کاونس”
  • Uzbek: “Kaunas”
  • Venetian: “Kaunas”
  • Veps: “Kaunas”
  • Vietnamese: “Kaunas”
  • Volapük: “Kaunas”
  • Võro: “Kaunas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kaunas”
  • Welsh: “Cawnas”
  • Western Armenian: “Կաունաս”
  • Western Panjabi: “کاؤناس”
  • Wu Chinese: “考纳斯”
  • Yiddish: “קאוונע”
  • Yue Chinese: “考納斯”
  • Yue Chinese: “考那斯”
  • “Kaunas”

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