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Capital: | Vilnius |
Area: | 9,651 km² |
Inhabitants: | 894,895 (1998) |
Pop. density: | 93 inh./km² |
ISO 3166-2: | LT-VL |
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Vilnius County is the biggest of the 10 counties of Lithuania, located in the east of the country around the city Vilnius.
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Officially the new country was called Central Lithuania, and it also included some neighbouring Belorusian territories. After the 1922 election, the Polish majority of 65% voted for annexation of the country to Poland, which was never officially recognised by Lithuania. After the Soviet-Nazi pact (1939) Lithuania was given the Vilnius County.
Vilnius county was occupied by the Soviets in June 1940, by the Germans in 1941 and again by the Soviets in 1944, until in 1950 the county was disbanded in an administrative reform. After the independence of Lithuania it was reestablished in 1994.