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The Baltic sea urban areas seen from space. Spit of Vasilyevsky Island, in Saint Petersburg, Russia Riddarholmen in Stockholm, Sweden House of the Blackheads (Riga), Latvia Gdańsk, Poland Szczecin, Poland Marina in Gdynia, Poland Klaipėda, Lithuania Świnoujście is a famous resort Darłowo, Poland Ystad, Sweden The medieval Turku Castle, Turku, Finland Lighthouse in Kołobrzeg, Poland ...
The following is a list of the 47 cities and towns in Estonia.Before the Republic of Estonia became an independent nation in 1918, many of these locations were known in the rest of the world by their German names, which were occasionally quite different from the ones used in the Estonian.
This is a list of cities in the Baltic States by population. The population is measured within city limits on a national level, independently, by each statistical bureau: Central Statistic Bureau of Latvia, [1] Statistics Estonia [2] and State Data Agency of Lithuania. [3]
City/Town District (Kreis) Pop. in 1939 Current Name Current Administrative Unit Allenburg: Landkreis Wehlau: 2 694: Druzhba: Kaliningrad Oblast Allenstein: Landkreis Allenstein: 50 396: Olsztyn: Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship Angerburg: Landkreis Angerburg: 10 922: Węgorzewo : Warmia-Masuria Arys: Landkreis Johannisburg: 3 553: Orzysz: Warmia ...
All municipalities in Poland are governed regardless of their type under the mandatory mayor–council government system. Executive power in a rural gmina is exercised by a wójt, while the homologue in municipalities containing cities or towns is called accordingly either a city mayor (prezydent miasta) or a town mayor (burmistrz), all of them elected by a two-round direct election, while the ...
Illyria is also an ancient Greek & Roman name for a part of the Balkans. Illyria is again used as a fictional kingdom in the film, Secret Society of Second-Born Royals; Irania: small European kingdom from the film Trouble for Two. Ingenistan: Small kingdom in Svalbard. The name comes from the youtuber Ingen.
If you've ever read the name of a town on a highway sign and started chuckling, you are not alone. Cities and towns across the nation have terrifically dirty-sounding and laugh-inducing names.
According to Lithuanian law, a town is a compactly-built settlement with a population of 500–3,000 and at least half of the population works in economic sectors other than agriculture. [1] However, there are many exceptions as many cities, towns, and villages retain their statuses based on historical tradition.