page_title: Klaipėda
section_title: Twin towns — sister cities
hierarchical_section_title: Klaipėda / Twin towns — sister cities
caption_attribution_description: 10 litas coin issued to commemorate Klaipeda (From the series "Lithuanian cities") Alloy of copper and nickel (Cu 75%, Ni 25%) Quality proof Diameter 28.70 mm Weight 13.15 g The words on the edge of the coin: KLAIPEDAI – 750 The designer of the coin is Rimantas Eidejus Mintage 5,000 pcs Issued 2002 The coin was minted at the state enterprise Lithuanian Mint.
context_page_description: Klaipėda is a city in Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coast. It is the third largest city in Lithuania and the capital of Klaipėda County.
  The city has a complex recorded history, partially due to the combined regional importance of the usually ice-free Port of Klaipėda at the mouth of the Akmena-Danė River. It was controlled by successive German states until the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. As a result of the 1923 Klaipėda Revolt it was annexed by Lithuania and has remained with Lithuania to this day, except between 1939 and 1945 when it returned to Germany following the 1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania and Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
  The population has shrunk from the city to its suburbs and the hinterland. The number of inhabitants of Klaipėda city shrank from 207,100 in 1992 to 157,350 in 2014, but the urban zone of Klaipėda expanded well into the suburbs, which sprang up around the city and surrounded it from three sides. These are well integrated with the city and the majority of inhabitants of these suburbs work in Klaipėda.
context_section_description: Klaipėda is twinned with:
   Cleveland, United States, since 1992
   Gdynia, Poland, since 1993
   Kaliningrad, Russia, since 1993
   Karlskrona, Sweden, since 1989
   Kotka, Finland, since 1994
   Kuji, Japan, since 1989
   Liepāja, Latvia, since 1997
   Lübeck, Germany
   Mannheim, Germany, since 1915/2002
   Mogilev, Belarus, since 1997
   North Tyneside, England, United Kingdom, since 1995
   Odessa, Ukraine, since 2004
   Rügen, Germany
   Szczecin, Poland, since 2002
caption: Litas commemorative coin dedicated to Klaipėda city (2002)
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