Samogitia
Samogitia is a region in the northwest of Lithuania. It's bordered to the west by the Baltic coast and Lithuania Minor, to the south by Sūduva, to the east by Aukštaitija and to the north by Latvia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Šiauliai and Palanga.
Šiauliai
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Šiauliai is an industrial city in Samogitia, the northwest region of Lithuania, though it borders Aukštaitija the northeast region. It's the country's fourth largest city: in 2023 the population was 40,434, with a total of about 108,000 across the metropolis.
Palanga
Palanga is a seaside resort in the Samogitia region of Lithuania. It includes a string of smaller resorts from the edge of Klaipėda city to the border with Latvia and the regional airport; in 2023 it had a population of 18,132.
Mažeikiai
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Mažeikiai is a city in Samogitia in the northwest of Lithuania. It's the country's eighth largest city, with a population of 32,470 in 2020.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Telšiai and Plungė.
Telšiai
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Telšiai is the chief city of Samogitia region in Lithuania, with a population of about 22,000 in 2023. It's industrial but has preserved many buildings of its Old Town.
Plungė
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Plungė is a town in the Samogitia region of Lithuania, with a population of 17,000 in 2022. The main reason to come this way is for Samogitia National Park.
Kretinga
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Kretinga is a city in Samogitia in the west of Lithuania, with a population of 17,249 in 2021. It's one of the oldest cities in the country, but repeatedly wrecked, so what you see now is mostly modern.
Tytuvėnai
Tytuvėnai is a town in the Samogitia region of Lithuania, with a population of 1805 in 2021. The main reason to visit is its monastery and associated churches.
Žemaičių Kalvarija
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Žemaičių Kalvarija meaning Samogitian Calvary is a village in the Samogitia region of Lithuania, 25 km northeast of the provincial chief town of Plungė. It's a Roman Catholic pilgrimage destination and in 2021 had a population of 600.
Židikai
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Židikai is a village in the Samogitia region of Lithuania, with a population of 364 in 2021. The writer Marija Pečkauskaitė lived here from 1915 for the last 15 years of her life.
Samogitia
- Type: region of Lithuania
- Description: ethnographic region in Lithuania
- Location: Lithuania, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude of center
55.746° or 55° 44′ 46″ northLongitude of center
22.385° or 22° 23′ 6″ eastWikidata ID
Q111362
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Urdu—“Samogitia” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Samogitia”
- Arabic: “ساموغيتيا”
- Aragonese: “Samochitia”
- Aymara: “Samogitia”
- Aymara: “Samuxitya”
- Azerbaijani: “Jemaytiya”
- Azerbaijani: “Samoqitiya”
- Basque: “Samogitia”
- Belarusian: “Жамойтыя”
- Belarusian: “Жамойція”
- Belarusian: “Жамойцкая зямля”
- Belarusian: “Жамойць”
- Belarusian: “Жмудзь”
- Belarusian: “Жэмайція”
- Breton: “Žemaitija”
- Bulgarian: “Жемайтия”
- Bulgarian: “Самогития”
- Catalan: “Samogitia”
- Catalan: “Samogítia”
- Chinese: “萨莫吉提亚”
- Chinese: “薩莫吉提亞”
- Croatian: “Samogitija”
- Czech: “Dolní Litva”
- Czech: “Samogitia”
- Czech: “Žemaitie”
- Czech: “Žemaitija”
- Czech: “Žemaitsko”
- Czech: “Žmuď”
- Danish: “Samogitien”
- Danish: “Žemaitija”
- Dutch: “Neder-Litouwen”
- Dutch: “Samogitie”
- Dutch: “Samogitië”
- Dutch: “Zemaitija”
- Dutch: “Žemaitija”
- Eastern Mari: “Жемайтий”
- Esperanto: “Jemajtio”
- Esperanto: “Ĵemajtio”
- Esperanto: “Malalta Litovio”
- Esperanto: “Samogitia”
- Esperanto: “Samogitio”
- Esperanto: “Žemaitija”
- Estonian: “Žemaitija”
- French: “Samogitie”
- Galician: “Samoxicia”
- Georgian: “ჟემაიტია”
- German: “Niederlitauen”
- German: “Samogitia”
- German: “Samogitien”
- German: “Schamaitien”
- German: “Schemaitien”
- German: “Žemaitėjė”
- German: “Žemaitien”
- German: “Zemaitija”
- German: “Žemaitija”
- Greek: “Σαμογιτία”
- Hebrew: “זאמוט”
- Hungarian: “Szamogitia”
- Indonesian: “Samogitia”
- Italian: “Samogitia”
- Italian: “Samogizia”
- Japanese: “サモギティア”
- Japanese: “ジェマイティア”
- Japanese: “ジェマイティヤ”
- Japanese: “ジャマイティア”
- Japanese: “ジャマイティヤ”
- Komi: “Жемайтия”
- Korean: “사모기티아”
- Korean: “제마이티아”
- Korean: “제마이티야”
- Latin: “Samogitia”
- Latvian: “Žemaitija”
- Lithuanian: “Žemaitija”
- Low German: “Schemaitien”
- Luxembourgish: “Nidderlitauen”
- Luxembourgish: “Samogitien”
- Mazanderani: “جمایتیا”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Samogitia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Samogitia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zemaitija”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Žemaitija”
- Norwegian: “Samogitia”
- Ossetian: “Жемайти”
- Ossetian: “Самогити”
- Persian: “ژمایتیا”
- Polish: “Litwa Dolna”
- Polish: “Żmudź”
- Portuguese: “Samogícia”
- Romanian: “Samogiția”
- Russian: “Жемайте”
- Russian: “Жемайтия”
- Russian: “Жмудь”
- Russian: “Жямайтия”
- Russian: “Самогития”
- Samogitian: “Žemaitėjė”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Žemajtija”
- Silesian: “Samogitia”
- Silesian: “Žmudź”
- Slovak: “Dolná Litva”
- Slovak: “Žemaitsko”
- Slovak: “Žmuď”
- Slovenian: “Samogitija”
- Spanish: “Samogicia”
- Spanish: “Samogitia”
- Spanish: “Zemaitija”
- Spanish: “Žemaitija”
- Swedish: “Samogitien”
- Turkish: “Samogitya”
- Ukrainian: “Жемайтія”
- Ukrainian: “Жемантія”
- Ukrainian: “Жмудь”
- Ukrainian: “Жмуть”
- Ukrainian: “Жямайтія”
- Ukrainian: “Нижня Литва”
- Urdu: “ساموگیتیا”
- “Žemaitėjė”
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