Vilnius urban area

The Vilnius urban area (known in Lithuanian as: Vilniaus aglomeracija) is the urban area of Vilnius. The urban area covers several municipalities in the Vilnius County.^[3][4][5]

Demographics

The largest cities or towns within the urban area are Vilnius, Lentvaris, Grigiškės, Trakai, Nemenčinė, Rudamina, Pagiriai and Skaidiškės.

Subdivision	Area (km2)	Population[6]
Vilnius	400	602,430
Vilnius District Municipality	2129	106,197

Definition

While Vilnius urban area occupies only most of

Dual city of Vilnius and Kaunas (known in Lithuanian as: Vilniaus ir Kauno dvimiestis or dipolis) is an idea to combine resources of Vilnius and Kaunas to be able to compete with larger European cities like Warsaw, Budapest, Bucharest or Prague for Western investments. The plan, which includes various forms of collaboration and vocalizes the idea, among all the other projects,– of fast commuting between the two (most notably – the construction of high speed rail) is not fully realized but idea is slowly being implemented (see: Rail Baltica) and is brought up by politicians every year. Combined metropolitan area of both cities would have population of more than 1.5 million and would produce more than a half of Lithuania's total GDP.^{[9][10][11][12]}

Economy

In 2020 Vilnius gross metropolitan product was €21.2 billion. This puts Vilnius in 94th place among cities in European Union.

Gallery

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  Yellow dotted line defines approximate borders of Vilnius urban area, while green colour shows municipalities which have territory in urban area. Grey shows rest of municipalities in Vilnius County
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  Limits of Vilnius city functional region according to intensity of traffic of daily

  commuters

  (the data of Lithuanian Road Administration under the Ministry of Transport and Communications)
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  Vilnius city bus in Lentvaris
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  Lentvaris railway station. Commuting from the town to Vilnius is widespread by rail, cars as well as some bus routes of Vilnius municipal buses run through Lentvaris.
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  New multi-storey housing is being built outside Vilnius like this residential house in Grigiškės
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  Some Vilnius city bus routes run through

  Trakai district

  municipalities
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  Zujūnai, one of suburbs of Vilnius
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  Suburban housing in Didžioji Riešė, an example of urban sprawl
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  Klevinė village where the number of inhabitants grew from just 11 in 2001 to 931 in 2021
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  Rows of suburban housing outside Vilnius in

  Vilnius district municipality
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  New housing some 6-7 km. to the north of the city border of Vilnius
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  Private houses, built after the 1992 in Gineitiškės village as seen from Pašilaičiai tower blocks

See also

• List of EU metropolitan areas by GDP
• List of metropolitan areas in Europe
• Kaunas urban area

References