According to the definition of city ( miestas in Lituanien) established by the Lithuanian Parliament (agglomeration of more than 3000 inhabitants of which more of the 2/3 work in the secondary industries and tertiary sector) the Lithuania account 103 cities. The agglomerations having currently less than 300 inhabitants, but who in the past had them, kept the statute of city. The smaller agglomerations are called miestelis than one could translate by village or village.

The majority of the cities were founded before the XVIIIe century and are sizes reduced. The population does not exceed 20.000 inhabitants that for 19 of enter they. They are distributed in a rather homogeneous way. Approximately 66,7% of the population live downtown (census of 2001). This percentage is in increase.

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