Visaginas Municipality | |
Native Name: | Visagino savivaldybė |
Native Name Lang: | lt |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Flag Size: | 125px |
Coordinates: | 55.598°N 26.438°W |
Pushpin Map: | Lithuania#Europe |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | ![]() |
Subdivision Type1: | Ethnographic region |
Subdivision Name1: | Aukštaitija |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Utena County |
Parts Style: | para |
Parts Type: | Settlements |
P1: | 18[1] |
Established Date: | 1994 |
Seat Type: | Administrative centre |
Seat: | Visaginas |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Area Footnotes: | [2] |
Area Total Km2: | 58 |
Area Rank: | 58th |
Population Total: | 19,633 |
Population As Of: | 2021[3] |
Population Rank: | 43rd |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Density Rank: | 7th |
Area Code Type: | Telephone code |
Area Code: | 386 |
Blank Name Sec1: | Major settlements |
Blank Info Sec1: | Visaginas (pop. 19,260)[4] |
The Visaginas Municipality (lt|Visagino savivaldybė) is one of the 60 municipalities of Lithuania, situated in the north-east of the country. It consists of the city of Visaginas (administrative centre of the municipality), 16 villages (kaimai) and one farmstead (viensėdis).
It has significant Russian minority population in Lithuania, with half of the population claiming Russian ethnicity.[5]
Visaginas is famous for the now-decommissioned Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant located here.
The municipality was formally established on 19 July 1994 as the Visaginas City Municipality (Visagino miesto savivaldybė) and came into actual existence following the local election on 25 March 1995. Initially the municipality was composed only of the city of Visaginas, but on 1 January 2003 its area was expanded by absorbing a part of the Ignalina District Municipality, and the Visaginas City Municipality was renamed to what it is known as now.[6]