Elektrėnai Municipality is situated in Vilnius County, in the Southeast of Lithuania.
Date of establishment – 19 March 2000.
Centre of Municipality – Elektrėnai City.
Distance to Vilnius – 48 km.
Distance to Kaunas – 54 km.

Territory of Municipality

Area – 50.9 thousand ha (0.78 percent of the total area of Lithuania; 5.2 percent of the total area of Vilnius County).

Agricultural land – 25.8 thousand ha (50.7 percent of the total area of Municipality).

Area occupied by cities – 2.54 thousand ha (5 percent of the total area of Municipality).

Forests – 29.2 percent of the total area of Municipality.

Water bodies – 6.6 percent of the total area of Municipality.

In Municipality, there are 2 cities – Elektrėnai and Vievis, Semeliškės Settlement, and 276 villages.

Elektrėnai is founded in 1961. Its territory covers 2.13 thousand ha (4.2 percent of the total area of Municipality).

Vievis was first mentioned in sourcebooks in 1539. Its territory covers 0.415 thousand ha (0.8 percent of the total area of Municipality).

The territory of Elektrėnai Municipality is crossed by the highway A1, railway Vilnius-Kaunas with the station in Vievis and stops in Lazdėnai, Baltamiškis, and Kaugonys.

Elektrėnai Municipality is also crossed by the radio link from Vilnius to Kaunas.

Population  

Population in 2008 – 27 713 in total.
(0.83 percent of the population of Lithuania; 3.34 percent of the population in Vilnius County),

Number of residents in 1 km² in 2005 – 54.8;
(in Lithuania – 52.5, in Vilnius County – 87.2).

Population of the cities – 18 709 thousand (67.5 percent of the total population of Municipality);
out of which:
in Elektrėnai – 13 691 (49.4 percent of the total population of Municipality);
in Vievis – 5 018 (18.2 percent of the total population of Municipality).

Rural residents – 9 004 (32.4 percent of the total population of Municipality).

Age ranges

Residents 0-15 years old – 5162;
Able-bodied population – 17666;
Retirement age population – 5564;

Ethnic composition

Lithuanians – 81 percent;
Polish – 8 percent;
Russians – 7 percent;
Other (Byelorussians, Ukrainians, and others) – 4 percent.

Religion

Roman Catholics – 82.17 percent;
Atheists – 7.86 percent;
Orthodox Christians – 5.07 percent;
Old Believers – 0.57 percent;
Others – less than by 0.5 percent.