Lithuania
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Vilnius County

Vilnius

Vilnius is the capital and largest city of . It has a beautiful baroque Old Town, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and excellent tourist facilities in all price ranges.
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  • Type: City with 581,000 residents
  • Description: capital and largest city of Lithuania
  • Also known as: “Vil’no”, “Vil’nyus”, “Vilna”, “Viļņa”, “Vilnė”, “Vilnia”, “Viĺnia”, “Vilno”, “Vilnyus”, “Wilna”, and “Wilno”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Gediminas Tower and National Library of Lithuania.

Museum
Photo: BigHead, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gediminas' Tower is the remaining part of the Upper Castle on top of the Gediminas Hill in Vilnius, Lithuania. It has a viewing platform that offers scenic views of and Vilnius Central Business District.

Library
Photo: Algirdas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Martynas Mažvydas is a national cultural institution which collects, organizes and preserves Lithuania's written cultural heritage content, develops the collection of Lithuanian and foreign documents relevant to research, educational and cultural needs of Lithuania, and provides library information services to the public.

Church
Photo: Lestath, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cathedral Basilica of St Stanislaus and St Ladislaus of Vilnius, also known as Vilnius Cathedral is the main Catholic cathedral in . It is situated in , just off Cathedral Square.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Antakalnis and Naujininkai.

Suburb
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is an eldership in Vilnius, . is one of the oldest, and largest historical suburbs of Vilnius. It is in the Eastern section of Vilnius, along the left bank of the , with the river running along the whole Western side of the district.

Suburb
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is one of the elderships of Vilnius, . It is situated in the south-west of the city and lies between Vilnius International Airport and the . It has an Old Believers cemetery and a church.

Suburb
is an eldership in the Vilnius city municipality, . It occupies 4.9 km². According to the 2021 census, it had a population of 28,157, giving it a population density of 5,745 people per square kilometer.

Vilnius

Latitude
54.687° or 54° 41′ 13″ north
Longitude
25.2829° or 25° 16′ 59″ east
Population
581,000
Elevation
98 metres (322 feet)
IATA airport code
VNO
United Nations Location Codes
LT VIL and LT VNO
Open location code
9G67M7PM+R5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27193093
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
593116
Wiki­data ID
Q216
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Vilnius” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Вилниус”
  • Abkhazian: “Вильниус”
  • Achinese: “Vilnius”
  • Afrikaans: “Vilnius”
  • Albanian: “Vilnius”
  • Albanian: “Vilniusi”
  • Amharic: “ቪልኒውስ”
  • Arabic: “فيلنيوس”
  • Aragonese: “Vilna”
  • Armenian: “Վիլնյուս”
  • Arpitan: “Vilnius”
  • Asturian: “Vilnius”
  • Asturian: “Wilno”
  • Avaric: “Вильнюс”
  • Aymara: “Wilñus”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vilnüs”
  • Balinese: “Vilnius”
  • Bashkir: “Вильнюс”
  • Basque: “Vilnius”
  • Belarusian: “Вільна”
  • Belarusian: “Вільнюс”
  • Belarusian: “Вільня”
  • Bengali: “ভিলনিউস”
  • Bengali: “ভিলনিয়াস”
  • Betawi: “Wilnius”
  • Bislama: “Vilnius”
  • Bosnian: “Vilnius”
  • Breton: “Vilnius”
  • Bulgarian: “Вилнюс”
  • Catalan: “Vilna”
  • Catalan: “Vílnius”
  • Cebuano: “Vilnius (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Vilnius”
  • Central Bikol: “Vilnius”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڤیلنیوس”
  • Chamorro: “Vilnius”
  • Chavacano: “Vilnius”
  • Chechen: “Вильнюс”
  • Chinese: “Vilnius”
  • Chinese: “維爾紐斯”
  • Chinese: “维尔纽斯”
  • Church Slavic: “Вилн҄ь”
  • Chuvash: “Вильнюс”
  • Cornish: “Vilnius”
  • Cree: “Vilnius”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Vilnüs”
  • Croatian: “Vilnius”
  • Czech: “Vilnius”
  • Czech: “Vilno”
  • Dagbani: “Vilnius”
  • Danish: “Vilnius”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Vilnius”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Vilniyus”
  • Dutch: “Vilnius”
  • Dutch: “Wilna”
  • Eastern Mari: “Вильнюс”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فيلنيوس”
  • Erzya: “Вильнюс ош”
  • Esperanto: “Vilnius”
  • Esperanto: “Vilno”
  • Estonian: “Vilnius”
  • Ewe: “Vilnius”
  • Extremaduran: “Vilna”
  • Faroese: “Vilnius”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Vilnius”
  • Fijian: “Vilnius”
  • Finnish: “Vilna”
  • Finnish: “Vilnius”
  • Finnish: “Wilno”
  • French: “Vilna”
  • French: “Vilnė”
  • French: “Vilnious”
  • French: “Vilnius”
  • French: “Wilna”
  • French: “Wilne”
  • French: “Wilnja”
  • French: “Wilnjus”
  • French: “Wilno”
  • Gagauz: “Vilnüs”
  • Galician: “Vilnius”
  • Ganda: “Vilnius, Lithueenia”
  • Ganda: “Vilnius, Ripablik ya Lithueenia”
  • Ganda: “Vilnius”
  • Georgian: “ვილნიუსი”
  • German: “Vilnius”
  • German: “Wilne”
  • German: “ווילנע”
  • German: “Wilna” (historical)
  • Gothic: “𐍅𐌹𐌻𐌽𐌿𐍃”
  • Greek: “Βίλνα”
  • Greek: “Βιλνιους”
  • Greek: “Βίλνιους”
  • Greek: “Βίλνο”
  • Guarani: “Vilnius”
  • Gujarati: “વિલ્નીયસ”
  • Haitian: “Vilnis”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Vilnius”
  • Hausa: “Vilnius”
  • Hawaiian: “Vilnius”
  • Hebrew: “ווילנא”
  • Hebrew: “ווילנה”
  • Hebrew: “וילנא”
  • Hebrew: “וילנה”
  • Hindi: “विलनियस”
  • Hindi: “विल्नुस”
  • Hungarian: “Vilnius”
  • Iban: “Vilnius”
  • Icelandic: “Vilníus”
  • Ido: “Vilnius”
  • Inari Sami: “Vilna”
  • Indonesian: “Vilnius”
  • Interlingua: “Vilnius”
  • Interlingue: “Vilnius”
  • Inuktitut: “ᕕᓪᓂᐅᔅ/vilnius”
  • Inuktitut: “ᕕᓪᓂᐅᔅ”
  • Irish: “Vilnias”
  • Italian: “Vilna”
  • Italian: “Vilnius”
  • Japanese: “ヴイリナ”
  • Japanese: “ヴィリニュス”
  • Japanese: “ヴィルナ”
  • Japanese: “ヴィルニュス”
  • Japanese: “ヴィルノ”
  • Japanese: “ビリニュス”
  • Japanese: “ビルニュス”
  • Kalaallisut: “Vilnius”
  • Kannada: “ವಿಲ್ನಿಯಸ್”
  • Kashubian: “Wilna”
  • Kashubian: “Wilno”
  • Kazakh: “Вильнюс қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Вильнюс”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Vilnius”
  • Kirghiz: “Вильнюс”
  • Kölsch: “Vilnius”
  • Komi: “Вильнюс”
  • Kongo: “Vilnius”
  • Korean: “빌뉴스”
  • Kotava: “Vilnius”
  • Kurdish: “Vilnius”
  • Kurdish: “Vîlnûs”
  • Ladino: “Vilna”
  • Latgalian: “Viļne”
  • Latin: “Vilna”
  • Latvian: “Viļņa”
  • Ligurian: “Vilnius”
  • Limburgan: “Vilnius”
  • Lingala: “Wilna”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Vilnius”
  • Lithuanian: “Vilniaus miestas”
  • Lithuanian: “Vilnius”
  • Lithuanian: “Wilnius”
  • Livvi: “Vil’nussu”
  • Lombard: “Vilnius”
  • Low German: “Vilnius”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Vilnius”
  • Luxembourgish: “Vilnius”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Vilnius”
  • Macedonian: “Вилнус”
  • Malagasy: “Vilnius”
  • Malay: “Vilnius”
  • Malayalam: “വിൽനുസ്”
  • Maltese: “Vilnius”
  • Manx: “Vilnius”
  • Maori: “Vilnius”
  • Marathi: “व्हिल्नियस”
  • Mazanderani: “ویلنیوس”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Vilnius”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Vilna”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Vilnius”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wilno”
  • Minangkabau: “Vilnius”
  • Mingrelian: “ვილნიუსი”
  • Moksha: “Вильнюс”
  • Mongolian: “Вильнюс”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ڤيلنوس”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ڤيلنيوس”
  • Nauru: “Vilnius”
  • Navajo: “Tó Doolkʼoolí”
  • Neapolitan: “Vilnius”
  • Nepali: “भिलनियस”
  • Northern Frisian: “Vilnius”
  • Northern Luri: “ویلینوس”
  • Northern Sami: “Vilnius”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vilnius”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vilnius”
  • Norwegian: “Vilnius”
  • Novial: “Vilnius”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Vílnius”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bilnius”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Vilnius”
  • Ossetian: “Вильнюс”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਿਲਨਸ”
  • Papiamento: “Vilnius”
  • Persian: “ویلنیوس”
  • Piemontese: “Vilnius”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Vilnius”
  • Polish: “Vilnus”
  • Polish: “Wilno”
  • Portuguese: “Vilna”
  • Portuguese: “Vilnius”
  • Portuguese: “Vílnius”
  • Prussian: “Wilni”
  • Pushto: “ویلنیوس”
  • Quechua: “Vilnius”
  • Romanian: “Vilnius”
  • Romanian: “Вильнюс”
  • Russian: “Вильна”
  • Russian: “Вильно”
  • Russian: “Вильнюс”
  • Rusyn: “Вільно”
  • Sakizaya: “Wi-al-niw-s”
  • Samoan: “Vilnius”
  • Samogitian: “Vėlnios”
  • Samogitian: “Vilnius”
  • Sango: “Vilnius”
  • Sanskrit: “विल्ञुः”
  • Sardinian: “Vilnius”
  • Sardinian: “Vìlnius”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Vilnius”
  • Scots: “Vilnius”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Vilnius”
  • Serbian: “Вилњус”
  • Serbian: “Виљнус”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vilnius”
  • Shona: “Vilnius”
  • Sicilian: “Vilnius”
  • Silesian: “Vilnius”
  • Silesian: “Wilno”
  • Sindhi: “ولنيئس”
  • Sinhala: “විල්නියස්”
  • Slovak: “Vilnius”
  • Slovenian: “Vilna”
  • Slovenian: “Vilnius”
  • Southern Sotho: “Vilnius”
  • Spanish: “Vilna”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Vilnius”
  • Swahili: “Vilnius”
  • Swati: “Vilnius”
  • Swedish: “Vilnius (huvudstaden)”
  • Swedish: “Vilnius”
  • Swiss German: “Vilnius”
  • Tagalog: “Vilna”
  • Tagalog: “Vilnius”
  • Tajik: “Вилнюс”
  • Talysh: “Vilnus”
  • Tamil: “வில்னியஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Vilnius”
  • Tatar: “Вилнүс”
  • Telugu: “విల్నియస్”
  • Tetum: “Vilnius”
  • Thai: “วิลนีอัส”
  • Thai: “วิลนีอุส”
  • Tibetan: “ལྦེ་ནི་སུ་ནི།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Vilnius”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Vilnius”
  • Turkish: “Vilnius”
  • Turkish: “Vilnüs”
  • Turkmen: “Wilnius”
  • Udmurt: “Вильнюс”
  • Ukrainian: “Вільнюс”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Vilnius”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Wilna”
  • Urdu: “ولنیس”
  • Urdu: “ویلنیوس”
  • Uzbek: “Vilnus”
  • Uzbek: “Vilnyus”
  • Venetian: “Vilna”
  • Veps: “Vil’nüs”
  • Vietnamese: “Vilnius”
  • Vlaams: “Vilnius”
  • Vlax Romani: “Vilnius”
  • Volapük: “Vilnius”
  • Võro: “Vilnius”
  • Walloon: “Vilnius”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vilnius”
  • Welsh: “Vilnius”
  • Western Armenian: “Վիլնիւս”
  • Western Frisian: “Vilnius”
  • Western Frisian: “Vilnjûs”
  • Western Mari: “Вильнюс”
  • Western Panjabi: “ولنیس”
  • Wolof: “Wilnius”
  • Wolof: “Wilniyus”
  • Wu Chinese: “维尔纽斯”
  • Yakut: “Вильнюс”
  • Yiddish: “Vilne”
  • Yiddish: “ווילנע”
  • Yoruba: “Filnius”
  • Yoruba: “Vilnius”
  • Yue Chinese: “維爾紐斯”
  • Zeeuws: “Vilnius”
  • Zulu: “IVilnyusi”
  • “Vėlnios”
  • “Vilnius”
  • “Вильнюс”

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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 “Vilnius”. Photo: Pudelek, CC BY-SA 3.0.