Sūduva
Sūduva, Sudovia or Suvalkija is a region of southwest Lithuania. It's ill-defined but is here taken to mean the counties of Kaunas and of Marijampolė, which are no longer administrative units.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Kaunas and Marijampolė.
Kaunas
Photo: Pudelek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kaunas in the region of Sūduva 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.
Marijampolė
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Marijampolė is the administrative centre of the Sūduva region of southern Lithuania. It's industrial and in 2022 had a population of 36,234.
Birštonas
Birštonas is a town in Sūduva the southern region of Lithuania, on a loop in the River Nemunas. Since mid-19th century it's been a spa resort for its mineral waters.
Sūduva
- Type: historical region
- Description: historical and ethnographic region in East Europe
- Also known as: “Sudovia”, “Suvalkija”, “Suwałki Region”, and “Suwalszczyzna”
- Category: cultural region
- Location: Lithuania, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude of center
54.845° or 54° 50′ 42″ northLongitude of center
23.5053° or 23° 30′ 19″ eastWikidata ID
Q1359741
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Urdu—“Sūduva” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Suvalkija”
- Aragonese: “Suvalkija”
- Azerbaijani: “Suvalkiya”
- Belarusian: “Сувалкія”
- Belarusian: “Судовія”
- Bulgarian: “Судовия”
- Catalan: “Suvalkija”
- Chinese: “苏多维亚”
- Chinese: “苏杜瓦”
- Chinese: “苏瓦尔基亚”
- Chinese: “蘇瓦凱加”
- Chinese: “蘇瓦爾基亞”
- Danish: “Suvalkija”
- Dutch: “Sūduva”
- Esperanto: “Sūduva”
- Esperanto: “Suvalkija”
- Esperanto: “Suvalkio”
- French: “Sudovie”
- French: “Suvalkija”
- Georgian: “სუვალკია”
- German: “Suvalkija”
- Greek: “Σουβαλκίγια”
- Hebrew: “סובאלקיה”
- Italian: “Sudovia”
- Japanese: “スヴァルキヤ”
- Korean: “수발키야”
- Latvian: “Suvalkija”
- Lithuanian: “Suvalkij”
- Lithuanian: “Suvalkija”
- Low German: “Suvalkija”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sūduva”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jaćwież”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sudauen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sudovia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Suduva”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sūduva”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Suvalkija”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Suwalszczyzna”
- Norwegian: “Sūduva”
- Persian: “سوالکیا”
- Polish: “Sudowia”
- Polish: “Suvalkija”
- Polish: “Suwalszczyzna/Suvalkija”
- Polish: “Suwalszczyzna”
- Russian: “Сувалкия”
- Samogitian: “Ožnemonė”
- Samogitian: “Sūdova”
- Samogitian: “Suvalkėjė”
- Slovenian: “Suvalščizna”
- Turkish: “Suvalkija”
- Ukrainian: “Сувальщина”
- Urdu: “سووئیکیا”
- “Sūdova”
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