| Official Name: | Ašašninkai | ||||||||
| Settlement Type: | Village | ||||||||
| Pushpin Map: | Lithuania | ||||||||
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Lithuania | ||||||||
| Subdivision Name: |  Lithuania | ||||||||
| Subdivision Type1: | Ethnographic region | ||||||||
| Subdivision Name1: | Dzūkija | ||||||||
| Subdivision Type2: | County | ||||||||
| Subdivision Name2: | Alytus County | ||||||||
| Subdivision Type3: | Municipality | ||||||||
| Subdivision Name3: | Varėna district municipality | ||||||||
| Subdivision Type4: | Elderships | ||||||||
| Subdivision Name4: | Marcinkonys eldership | ||||||||
| Population As Of: | 2021[1] | ||||||||
| Population Total: | 27 | ||||||||
| Timezone: | EET | ||||||||
| Utc Offset: | +2 | ||||||||
| Timezone Dst: | EEST | ||||||||
| Utc Offset Dst: | +3 | ||||||||
| Coordinates: | 53.9361°N 24.3028°W | ||||||||
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Ašašninkai is a village in Varėna district municipality, in Alytus County, in southeastern Lithuania. According to the 2021 census, the village has a population of 27 people.[2] In the years 1921-1945 the village was within the borders of Poland. Ašašninkai is the southernmost inhabited place is Lithuania.
Ašašninkai village is located c. from Druskininkai, from Marcinkonys, from Kabeliai (the nearest settlement) and from the Belarusian border.
The name Ašašninkai (in Dzūkian Ašašnykai) comes from Lithuanian: ašašnykas < Belarusian: [[:be:Асочнікі|асочнік]], Russian: осочник which mean 'a hunter beater, a forest ranger, a forest keeper, a tracker'. Before 1990 the village was officially called Kabeliai II.[3]