Saldus District Explained

Saldus
Settlement Type:	District
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	Latvia
Unit Pref:	Metric
Area Total Km2:	2,182
Population Footnotes:	^[1]
Population Total:	36,324
Population Density Km2:	auto
Website:	saldus.lv/
Established Title:	Created
Established Date:	1949
Extinct Title:	Dissolved
Extinct Date:	2009

Saldus District (Latvian: Saldus rajons) was an administrative division of Latvia, located in Courland region, in the country's west.

The district, previously a part of Kuldīga County, was created during the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1949. The district was divided up during the administrative-territorial reform in 2009 into Brocēni Municipality and Saldus Municipality. In 2021 they were merged again into a new Saldus Municipality.

Cities and parishes

• Saldus city
• Brocēni town
• Ezere Parish
• Gaiķi Parish
• Jaunauce Parish
• Jaunlutriņi Parish
• Kursīši Parish
• Lutriņi Parish
• Nīgrande Parish
• Novadnieki Parish
• Pampāļi Parish
• Ruba Parish
• Saldus Parish
• Šķēde Parish
• Vadakste Parish
• Zaņa Parish
• Zirņi Parish
• Zvārde Parish

Culture

Zvērā was an annual non-commercial rock music festival held near Lašupe, Lutriņi Parish.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: RESIDENT POPULATION BY REGION, CITY AND DISTRICT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR . Centrālās statistikas pārvaldes datu bāzes . 23 January 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090110055616/http://data.csb.gov.lv/Dialog/varval.asp?ma=04-05a&ti=4-5.+RESIDENT+POPULATION+BY+REGION%2C+CITY+AND+DISTRICT+AT+THE+BEGINNING+OF+THE+YEAR+++&path=..%2FDATABASEEN%2FIedzsoc%2FAnnual%20statistical%20data%2F04.%20Population%2F&lang=1 . 10 January 2009 .
2. Former Festival homepage: http://www.zvera.lv