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Kaunas

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Lithuania

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Population
292K
Coordinates
54.8985, 23.9036
Category
cities

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Kaunas is the second-largest city in Lithuania, the fourth-largest city in the Baltic States, and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the largest city and the centre of a county in the Duchy of Trakai of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Trakai Palatinate since 1413. In the Russian Empire, it was the capital of the Kaunas Governorate from 1843 to 1915.

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