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Varėna
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Varėna () is a city in Dzūkija, southern Lithuania. It is the capital of the district of Varėna. Currently, there are 7,794 residents. The Varėna district is the largest and most forested municipality of Lithuania as more than 50% of the district's territory is covered with forests.
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Varėna is a city in Lithuania that serves as the capital of the Varėna District Municipality and the Varėna Eldership. The settlement was first mentioned in written records in 1413, with an inception date of 1377. It is located within the Troki County and has an area of 11.7 square kilometers. The city’s official language is Lithuanian, and its native label is Varėna, while its official name is Араны.
The population of Varėna is listed as 10,877, though another source records it as 7,892. The city sits at an elevation of 136 meters above sea level, with a secondary elevation figure of 128 meters. Varėna is twinned with the administrative bodies of Prenzlau and Bartoszyce. Its postal code is LT-65001, and it operates in the UTC+02:00 and UTC+03:00 time zones.
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Place details
- Locality
- Varėna
- Region
- Alytaus apskritis
- Country
- Lietuva
- Population
- 7,892
- Timezone
- Europe/Vilnius
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Key facts
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- Varėna
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- City
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- Brandmark
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- Lithuania
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- Location of Varėna
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- Country
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- Ethnographic region
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- Dzūkija
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- County
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_name2
- 17px Alytus County
- Settlement <! more fields are available for this Infobox See Template:Infobox Settlement >.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
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- Varėna district municipality
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- Capital of
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- Varėna district municipality Varėna eldership
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- Араны
- Country
- Lithuania
- Located in
- Varėna Eldership
- Official language
- Lithuanian
- Population
- 8202
- Area
- 11.7
- Elevation
- 123
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Capital of
- Varėna Eldership
- Official website
- www.varena.lt
- Image
- Varėna1a.JPG
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- Commons category
- Varėna
- topic's main category
- Category:Varėna
- twinned administrative body
- Bartoszyce
- inception
- 1377-00-00
- time of earliest written record
- 1413-00-00
- postal code
- LT-65001
- native label
- Varėna
- P8168
- Kashyyyk
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- P12749
- Arleuf
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Climate
- Twin towns
- References
- External links
Varėna () is a city in Dzūkija, southern Lithuania. It is the capital of the district of Varėna. Currently, there are 7,794 residents. The Varėna district is the largest and most forested municipality of Lithuania as more than 50% of the district's territory is covered with forests.
==Etymology== The name of the town comes from an old village - Senoji Varėna (at the time called simply Varėna), while the new, present Varėna was being established nearby. The place name itself comes from the name of the Varėnė River. In other languages, the town is referred to as: ; Oran.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Varėna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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