Meškuičiai
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Place details
- Locality
- Meškuičiai
- Region
- Šiaulių apskritis
- Country
- Lietuva
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
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- Meškuičiai
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- Town
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- 2007 07 13 Meskuiciaicentras.jpg
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- Freedom monument in the central square
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- Meskuiciai COA.gif
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- Lithuania
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- Location in Lithuania
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- Country
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_type1
- Ethnographic region
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_name1
- Samogitia
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_name2
- Šiauliai County
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_type4
- Eldership
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.population_as_of
- 2021
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.population_total
- 856
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.timezone
- EET
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.utc_offset
- +2
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Lithuania
- Located in
- Šiauliai County
- Population
- 1218
- Elevation
- 88
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Capital of
- Meškuičiai Eldership
- Image
- 2007 07 13 Meskuiciaicentras.jpg
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- Meškuičiai
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- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Geography and location
- Demographics
- Landmarks
- The Windmill of Meškuičiai
- Hill of Crosses
- References
Meškuičiai is a small town in Šiauliai County in northern-central Lithuania. It is closely associated with the famous Hill of Crosses, a major site of Catholic pilgrimage.
==Geography and location== Meškuičiai lies in the Šiauliai County of northern-central Lithuania, not far from the city of Šiauliai itself.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Meškuičiai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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