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Lilla Edet Municipality

**Lilla Edet Municipality** (*Lilla Edets kommun*) is a municipality in Västra Götaland Coonty in wastren Swaden. Its seat is locatit in the toun o Lilla Edet.

The present municipality wis formit in 1971, when the mercat toun (*[[köping]]*) Lilla Edet (institutit as late as 1951) wis mergit wi Flundre (pairt o), Inlands Torpe an Lödöse.

Population figures frae Statistics Sweden as o 31 December 2005.

*Lilla Edet (seat) (pop. 4,936)
*Lödöse (pop. 1,265)
*Göta (pop. 962)
*Nygård (pop. 436)
*Hjärtum (pop. 384)

O these localities, Lödöse is naitionally kent for being the oreeginal location o the ceety o Gothenburg. In the medieval age it wis a busy ceety an hostit an important Swadish harbor, till it wis muivit tae its present location in 1473, and little remained. The day it haes an interestin museum wi mony interestin objects.

## Industry
The lairgest employer in Lilla Edet Municipality apairt frae the govrenment is the paper mill "SCA Hygiene Products AB Edet Bruk", wi some 500 employees. It haes been in operation for some 120 year, an is best kent the day for its manufacturin o the toilet paper brand "Edet", available in ivery store in Swaden.

## References

## Freemit airtins
*Lilla Edet Municipality - Offeecial steid
*The local newspaper (TTELA)
Stenungsund Municipality

**Stenungsund Municipality** (*Stenungsunds kommun*) is a municipality in Västra Götaland Coonty in wastren Swaden. Its seat is locatit in the toun o Stenungsund. The municipality is situatit bi the sea inside the islands Orust an Tjörn an traversed bi the E6 an Bohus Line, in which it haes three stops (Stora Höga, Stenungsund an Svenshögen).

The municipality wis formit throu amalgamation in 1952. In 1971 a pairish frae a dissolvit municipality wis addit.

The coat o airms wis registred in 1977. The device in the upper hauf is a hydrocarbon molecule, which alludes tae the petrochemical industry in the municipality.

## Localities

The seat is locatit richt bi the European route E6 heich-gate an the railwey Bohus Line, Bohusbanan.

In 2006, airchaeological excavations in the aurie revealed a series o burial steids datin atween 1 AD an 300 AD.

## Notable corporations
*Hogia (Offeecial wabsteid), ane o Swaden's mucklest native computer software developers

Syne the 1950s, Stenungsund Municipality haes acome the centre for the petrochemical industry. Its distinguished silhouette is fower giant chimneys, belangin tae a muckle pouer plant.

## Sports
The follaein sports clubs are locatit in Stenungsund Municipality:

* Stenungsunds IF
* Vallens IF 
* Stss, Tjörn Runt

## See an aw
*Stenungsund excavations

## References

## Freemit airtins
*Stenungsund Municipality - Offeecial steid
Ale Municipality

**Ale Municipality** (*Ale kommun*) is a municipality in Västra Götaland Coonty in wastren Swaden. Its seat is locatit in the toun o Nödinge-Nol.

Ale Municipality wis creatit in 1974, when the umwhile municipalities o Nödinge, Skepplanda an Starrkärr wur amalgamatit. The new entity got its name frae the auld Ale Hunder, which haed approximately the same territory.

It biggit ane o the first indoor bandy arenas in Swaden (an subsequently in the warld), which wis the first in Götaland.http://www.alearena.eu/english.html 

## Localities
Inhabitants figures frae 2000.

*Nödinge-Nol 8,800 (seat)
*Surte 5,400
*Älvängen 3,700
*Skepplanda 1,900
*Alvhem 223

## Sister ceeties
Ale haes three sister ceeties:
* Bertinoro, Italy
* Kaufungen, Germany
* Ruukki, Finland

## References

## Freemit airtins
*Ale Municipality - Offeecial steid
Skärhamn

**Skärhamn** is a locality an the seat o Tjörn Municipality, Västra Götaland Coonty, Swaden wi 3,180 inhabitants in 2005. The main tourist attraction in Skärhamn, yachtin forbye, is The Nordic Watercolour Museum (Akvarellmuseet).

## Sports
The follaein sports clubs are locatit in Skärhamn:

* Skärhamns IK

## References

## Freemit airtins
Rönnäng

**Rönnäng** is a locality situatit in Tjörn Municipality, Västra Götaland Coonty, Swaden wi 1,474 inhabitants in 2005. It lees on the sooth peak o the island o Tjörn in Swaden.

## References

## Freemit airtins
* Rönnängs skola (The school) 
* Rönnängs bibliotek (The library) 
* Rönnängs FF (Soccer club, unoffeecial page)
Stora Dyrön

**Stora Dyrön** is an island an a locality situatit in Tjörn Municipality, Västra Götaland Coonty, Swaden wi 272 inhabitants in 2005.

## References
Trollhättan Municipality

**Trollhättan Municipality** (*Trollhättans kommun* or *Trollhättans stad*) is a municipality in Västra Götaland Coonty in wastren Swaden. Its seat is locatit in the ceety o Trollhättan.

The municipality wis creatit gradually in 1967, 1971 an 1974 durin the last local govrenment reform when the *Ceety o Trollhättan* (itsel institutit in 1916) wis amalgamatit wi surroondin municipalities.

The municipality itsel prefers tae uise the denomination *Trollhättans [[stad (Swaden)|stad]]* (*Ceety o Trollhättan*) for the entire territory, includin rural auries. This is purely nominal an haes nae effect on its status as a unitary municipality.  The day, it is the hame o Saab Automobile.

## Localities
*Sjuntorp
*Trollhättan (seat)
*Upphärad
*Väne-Åsaka
*Velanda

## References

## Freemit airtins
*Trollhättan Municipality - Offeeecial steid
*Trollhättan  - Offeecial tourist steid
*Pictures of Sweden/Trollhætta - H. C. Andersen 1851
*The local newspaper (TTELA)
*Kumgang Taekwondo  - Martial airt
*Trollhättan Aikido Dojo  - Martial airt
Kungälv Municipality

**Kungälv Municipality** (*Kungälvs kommun*) is a municipality in Västra Götaland Coonty in wastren Swaden. Its seat is locatit in the ceety o Kungälv.

The present municipality wis formit in 1971 through the amalgamation o the *Ceety o Kungälv*, the *Ceety o [[Marstrand]]* an territories belangin tae fower rural municipalities. In 1974 a minor pairt (situatit on the island o Hisingen) wis transferred tae Gothenburg Municipality.

Geographically it borders tae Gothenburg Municipality (sooth), Ale Municipality (east), Lilla Edet Municipality (north-east) an Stenungsund Municipality (north). Tae the east flows the river Göta älv an tae the sooth, markin the border tae Gothenburg, flows the river Nordre älv. On an island in the river, the Bohus Fortress (ane o Swaden's feenest fortresses) faces the ceety o Kungälv.

## Localities
*Diseröd
*Kareby
*Kode
*Kungälv
*Kärna
*Marstrand

## References

## Freemit airtins
*
Stora Höga

**Stora Höga** is a locality situatit in Stenungsund Municipality, Västra Götaland Coonty, Swaden wi 2,553 indwallers in 2005.

Stora Höga is pairt o the Jörlanda parish in Stenungsund, an is situatit atween a railwey station oreeginally kent as Vallen. The Vallen railwey station later chyngit its name tae Stora Höga efter a nearbi ferm bi the same name. Some o the ither oreeginal ferms in the auld Stora Höga are Lilla Höga, Anrås, an Bråland.

On the ocean side is an auld steam boat pier kent as Getskär, nouadays uised as a dock for sma boats an an aw wi a sma beach that is popular durin the simmer months.

Durin the mid- an late 2000's, Stora Höga haes expandit rapidly leadin tae an influx o new residents.

Twa simulatenous motorcycle gang-relatit murthers in 2009, whaur the bodies wur foond in Stora Höga, receivit naitional media attention.

## References
Vrångö

**Vrångö** is the soothmaist inhabitit island in the Soothren Gothenburg Airchipelago an it is an aw a locality situatit in Gothenburg Municipality, Västra Götaland Coonty, Swaden. It haed 379 inhabitants in 2005. A ferry tae Vrångö can be taken frae Saltholmen.

## References

## Freemit airtins
*Some picturs frae Vrango
Östergötland Coonty

**Östergötland Coonty** (*Östergötlands län*) is a coonty or *[[län]]* in sootheastren Swaden. It borders the coonties o Kalmar tae the sootheast, Jönköping tae the soothwast, Västra Götaland tae the wast, Örebro tae the northwast, Södermanland tae the northeast, an the Baltic Sea tae the east.

Östergötland County haes a population o 429 852 (31 Mairch 2011) an the caipital an biggest ceety is Linköping. Linköping an neighbourin twin ceety Norrköping thegither form ane o Swaden's biggest metropolitan auries; The Linköping-Norrköping Corridor is therefore aften referred tae as *The Fowert Metropolitan Region* o Swaden, the ither three being Stockholm, Gothenburg an Malmö.

## Province
*For History, Geography an Cultur see: [[Östergötland]]*
Östergötland haes virtually the same bundaries as the current admeenistrative entity, the Östergötland Coonty.

## Admeenistration
The main aim o the Coonty Admeenistrative Buird is tae fulfil the goals set in naitional politics bi the Parliament an the Govrenment, tae coordinate the interests o the coonty, tae promote the development o the coonty, tae establish regional goals an safeguard the due process o law in the handlin o each case. The Coonty Admeenistrative Buird is a Government Agency heidit bi a Govrenor. See Leet o Östergötland Govrenors.

## Politics
The Coonty Cooncil o Östergötland or *Landstinget i Östergötland*.

## Municipalities

*Boxholm
*Finspång
*Kinda
*Linköping
*Mjölby
*Motala
*Norrköping
*Söderköping
*Vadstena
*Valdemarsvik
*Ydre
*Åtvidaberg
*Ödeshög

## Heraldry
Östergötland Coonty inheritit its coat o airms frae the province o Östergötland. When it is shown wi a ryal croun it represents the Coonty Admeenistrative Buird.

## References and notes

## Freemit airtins
*Östergötland Coonty Admeenistrative Board 
*Östergötland Coonty Cooncil 
*Tourism in Östergötland 
*Regional Association of Östergötland
Linköping Municipality

**Linköping Municipality** (*Linköpings kommun*) is a municipality in Östergötland Coonty in soothren Swaden. Its admeenistrative centre is the ceety o Linköping, wi some 94,000 indwallers.

The municipality is bordered in the wast bi Motala, an thence clockwise bi Finspång, Norrköping, Åtvidaberg, Kinda, Boxholm an Mjölby municipalities.

The present municipality wis formit in 1971 bi the amalgamation o the *Ceety o Linköping* wi five surroondin rural municipalities. The nummer o oreeginal local govrenment entities (as o 1863) makkingup Linköping Municipality is 32.

Linköping is ane o the few municipalities in Swaden tae style the speaker o the assembly as mayor.

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns — Sister ceeties

Sister ceeties tae Linköping are 
*  **[[Joensuu]]**, Finland
*  **[[Ísafjarðarbær]]**, Iceland
*  **[[Tønsberg]]**, Norawa
*  **[[Trabzon]]**, Turkey
*  **[[Linz]]**, Austrick
*  **[[Pietrasanta]]**, Italy
*  **[[Kaunas]]**, Lithuanie
*  **[[Oradea]]**, Romanie
*  **[[Guangzhou]]**, Cheenae
*  **[[Macau]]**, Cheenae
*  **[[Estelí]]**, Nicaragua 
*  **[[Morogoro]]**, Tanzanie
*  **[[Palo Alto, Californie|Palo Alto]]**, Californie, U.S.

Roskilde, Denmark chuise in the simmer o 2007 tae cancel its sistership agreements wi fower Scandinavian ceeties, includin Linköping.

## References

## Freemit airtins
*Linköping Municipality - Offeecial steid
Coonties o Swaden

The **Coonties o Swaden** () are the first level admeenistrative an poleetical subdiveesions o Swaden. Swaden is dividit intae 21 coonties. The coonties wur established in 1634 on Coont Axel Oxenstierna's initiative, supersedin the historical provinces o Swaden () tae introduce a modren admeenistration. At that time, they wur what the translation o *län* intae Inglis literally means; fiefdoms. The coonty borders aften trail the provincial borders, but the Croun aften chuise tae mak slicht relocations tae suit their purposes. There are controversial proposals tae divide Swaden intae lairger regions, replacin the current counties.

## Map
Wi offeecial coonty codes.



*AB: Stockholm Coonty
*AC: Västerbotten Coonty
*BD: Norrbotten Coonty
*C: Uppsala Coonty
*D: Södermanland Coonty
*E: Östergötland Coonty
*F: Jönköping Coonty
*G: Kronoberg Coonty
*H: Kalmar Coonty
*I: Gotland Coonty
*K: Blekinge Coonty
*M: Skåne Coonty
*N: Halland Coonty
*O: Västra Götaland Coonty
*S: Värmland Coonty
*T: Örebro Coonty
*U: Västmanland Coonty
*W: Dalarna Coonty
*X: Gävleborg Coonty
*Y: Västernorrland Coonty
*Z: Jämtland Coonty







Ilka coonty is further dividit intae municipalities (*kommuner*), the existence o which is pairtly at the discretion o the central govrenment.  Syne 2004 their number haes been 290, thus an average o 13.8 municipalities per coonty.  (See Municipalities o Swaden)

Till 1968, the Ceety o Stockholm haed its awn "coonty code" **A**, which is still uised interchangeably wi **AB** in some contexts.

The Coonty o Stockholm haed coonty code **B** an aw.

## See an aw
*Realm o Swaden
*Lands o Swaden
*Dominions o Swaden 
*Ranked leet o Swadish coonties
*ISO 3166-2 codes for Swaden
*Subdiveesions o the Nordic kintras

## References

## External links
*The Swadish Coonty Admeenistrative Buirds 
*Offeecial steid o the Swadish govrenment
*Naitional Atlas o Swaden  (searchable)
Sylhet Diveesion

**Sylhet Diveesion** (, pronooncit *Sileṭ Bibhag*), kent as **Greater Sylhet** or **Sylhet region** an aw, is the northeastren diveesion o Bangladesh, namit efter its main ceety, Sylhet. It is bundit bi Meghalaya State o Indie on the north, Tripura State on the sooth, Assam State o Indie on the east an Dhaka diveesion on the wast an Chittagong diveesion on the soothwast.

Ane o the maist picturesque an aircheologically rich regions in Sooth Asie, is the Sylhet Diveesion. Its bourgeonin economy haes become a pairt o the attractions o the region, as landscapes are filled wi fragrant orange an pineapple gardens an breathtakin tea plantations. Mony Sylhet community members hae foond wirk an residence abroad, pairticularly in the Unitit Kinrick an hae been uisin remittances tae fund projects an industries athin the Sylhet Diveesion, allouin the export industry an foreign investment sectors tae grow.

## Admeenistrative Destricts

The Diveesion is subdividit intae fower destricts (zilas) an thence intae 36 sub-destricts (upazilas). 

## References

## Freemit airtins
* Banglapedia airticle on Sylhet
Rajshahi Diveesion

The **Rajshahi Diveesion** () is ane o the seiven admeenistrative diveesions o Bangladesh. 

It haes an aurie o 18,174.4&nbsp;km² an a population at the 2011 Census o 18,329,000 (preliminary figures). Rajshahi Diveesion consists o 8 destricts (Bogra, Joypurhat, Naogaon, Natore, Nawabganj, Pabna, Rajshahi, Sirajganj), 70 Upazilas (the next lawer admeenistrative tier) an 1,092 Unions (the lawest admeenistrative tier). This diveesion is characterized bi its cheap labour force. It haes an excellent rail an road communication infrastructur. The diveesional caipital o Rajshahi is anerlie fower oors road journey away frae Dhaka, the caipital ceety. 

Till 2010 this Diveesion comprised 16 destricts, but early in that year it wis dividit intae twae, when a new Diveesion (Rangpur Diveesion) wis formit oot o the 8 northerly destricts that till then haed been pairt o the Rajshahi Diveesion. Rajshahi wis dominatit bi various Rajas, Maharajas an Zamindars.

## Location
Rajshahi diveesion is in the mid wastren corner o Bangladesh. The famous river Padma borders Rajshahi diveesion on the sooth an anither famous river, Jamuna, lees athort the eastren border. In the Wast, Rajshahi diveesion shares a border wi Indie.

## References
*Banglapedia: Rajshahi Diveesion
Khulna Diveesion

The **Khulna Diveesion** is ane o the seiven diveesions o Bangladesh an is locatit in the sooth-wast o the kintra. It haes an aurie o 22,285&nbsp;km2 an a population o 15,563,000 at the 2011 Census (preliminary returns). Its heidquarters is Khulna ceety in Khulna Destrict.

## Geography
The Khulna diveesion borders the Indie state o Wast Bengal tae the wast, the Rajshahi Diveesion tae the north, the Dhaka an Barisal Diveesions tae the east, an haes a coastline on the Bay o Bengal tae the sooth. It is pairt o the Ganges River delta or Greater Bengal Delta. Ither rivers include the Madhumati River, the Bhairob River an the Kopotokkho River. The region an aw includes several islands in the Bay o Bengal.

## Admeenistrative Destricts
Khulna Diveesion consists o the follaein ten Destricts (*zilas*), subdividit intae 59 sub-deestricts (*upazilas*):

## Leid
Bengali leid (Bangla) is the offeecial leid o Bangladesh.  There are few thoosan Pakistani oreegin fowk or Bihari fowk speak Urdu, those unfortunate fowk are strandit efter the leeberation war atween Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) an Pakistan. Bihari fowk wur actually frae the state o Bihar an surroondin auries o Indie an they migratit tae East Bengal (presently Bangladesh) at 1947. They actually uise a mixed form o Urdu leid, especially mixed wi Bhojpuri, Bengali, Hindi an Inglis.

Inglis is widely uised as the business leid. Maist o the educatit fowk can speak an unnerstaund Inglis. As Inglis is uised as medium o education in some educational institutions.

Munda, Domari, Romani, Telugu, Gujarati, Marwari an ither minor leids are uised bi minority communities uisually foond in the ceeties.

## References
Barisal Diveesion

The **Barisal Diveesion** () is ane o the seiven admeenistrative diveesions o Bangladesh. Locatit in the sooth-central pairt o the kintra, it haes an aurie o , an a population o 8,147,000 at the 2011 Census (preliminary returns). It is bundit bi the Dhaka Diveesion on the north, the Bay o Bengal on the sooth, Chittagong Diveesion on the east an Khulna Diveesion on the wast. The admeenistrative capital, Barisal ceety, lees in the Ganges (Padma) River delta on an affshuit o the Arial Khan River (Kirtonkhola). Barisal Diveesion is criss-crossed bi numerous rivers that earned her the nickname 'Dhan-Nodi-Kaal, Ei tine Barisal' (rice, river an canal biggit Barisal).

## Freemit airtins
Bani Walid

**Bani Walid**  ( **) is a toun in Libie, in the Misrata Destrict. The toun is locatit on either side o the wadi *Merdum*, an is surroondit bi the Libie desert. 

Prior tae 2007 it wis the caipital o the Bani Walid Destrict. Bani Walid haes an airport cried Bani Walid Airport.
Unner the Libie Arab Jamahiriya, it wis dividit intae twa Basic Fowkcongresses: Dahra - Bani Walid (الظهرة – بني وليد), an Zaytouna - Bani Walid (الزيتونة – بني وليد).

It is the hame tae the Warfalla tribe, the anerlie toun in which anerlie ane tribe resides. A campus o Misrata University is locatit in Bani Walid.

## Libyan ceevil war

In the Libie ceevil war, efter the anti-Gaddafi forces captured Tripoli in August an Sabha in September, Bani Walid, alang wi Sirte, wis ane o twa feenal stranghaulds held bi forces lyal tae the oostit Gaddafi regime.

There wur clashes atween anti-Gaddafi forces surroondin the ceety an Gaddafi lyalists defendin it throughoot September an early October; the ceety wis feenally taken on 17 October..

## References

## See an aw

*Leet o ceeties in Libie
*Bani Walid Airport

## Freemit airtins
*Beni Walid Museum
Pskov Oblast

**Pskov Oblast** (, *Pskovskaya oblast*) is a federal subject o Roushie (an oblast). Pskov Oblast borders the kintras o Estonie an Latvie, as well as Belaroushie. It is the wastrenmaist federal subject o contiguous Roushie (i.e. excludin the exclave o Kaliningrad Oblast). Its major ceeties are the admeenistrative center Pskov (pop. 202,000) an Velikiye Luki (pop. 104,000). Aurie: . Population: 673,423 (2010 Census).

## Natural resources
Ane o the maist important naitural resoorces o Pskov Oblast is firth. Forest takes up tae ane third o the territory o the region. Oweraw stocks o firths as for 1 Januar 2005 wur 331,2 Million cubic meters.

## Admeenistrative diveesions

## Demographics
**Population**: 

For the first hauf o 2007, the birth rate wis 9.1 per 1000 http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2007/0301/barom04.php

Accordin tae the 2010 Census, the ethnic composition wis:
*95% Roushie
*1.3% Ukrainian
*1% Belaroushies
*0.5% Roma
*0.4% Armenie
*0.1% Estonie
*1.7% ithers
*24,630 fowk wur registered frae admeenistrative databases, an coud no declare an ethnicity. It is estimatit that the proportion o ethnicities in this group is the same as that o the declared group.

## References
Bryansk Oblast

**Bryansk Oblast** (, *Bryanskaya oblast*) is a federal subject o Roushie (an oblast). Its admeenistrative center is the ceety o Bryansk. Population: 1,278,217 (2010 Census results).

## Admeenistrative diveesions

Bryansk Oblast is dividit intae 27 destricts (*[[raion]]s*) an 4 ceeties.  Thegither thay comprise 12 touns, 24 urban-type settlements, an 224 selsoviets.

## Demographics
Population: 1,278,217 (2010 Census); 

*Births (2008): 14,319 (11.0 per 1000)
*Daiths (2008): 23,197 (17.8 per 1000)

Births increased bi 7.8% an daiths remained the same in 2008 compared tae 2007.

Ethnic composition:
*Roushies - 96.7%
*Ukrainians - 1.1%
*Belaroushies - 0.4%
*Armenies - 0.4%
*Romani fowk - 0.3%
*Jews - 0.1%
*Ithers - 1%
*26,825 fowk wur registered frae admeenistrative databases, an coud no declare an ethnicity. It is estimatit that the proportion o ethnicities in this group is the same as that o the declared group.

## References

## Freemit airtins

* Offeecial wabsteid o Bryansk Oblast
* Bryansk oblast natur views
Chihuahua

**Chihuahua** mey refer tae:
*Chihuahua (state), a state in northren Mexico
**Chihuahua, Chihuahua, the caipital ceety o the state
**Chihuahua Municipality, the municipality surroondin the ceety
**Chihuahuan Desert, a desert coverin hintle o the state an adjacent regions
*Chihuahua (dug), a breed o dug namit efter the state
*Chihuahua cheese (Spaingie: *queso chihuahua*), a teep o cheese oreeginatin frae the state
*Chihuahua tradeetion, a proposed airchaeological tradeetion for that region
*"Chihuahua" (sang), a sang bi Louis Oliveira an his Bandodalua Boys, covered an made famous bi DJ Bobo
*"Chihuahua", a sang bi The Sugarcubes frae the 1992 album *[[Stick Around For Joy]]*
*"Chihuahua", a sang bi Bow Wow Wow frae *[[See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah. City All Over! Go Ape Crazy.]]*

## See an aw
*Municipalities o Chihuahua
**[[Beverly Hills Chihuahua]]*, 2008 comedy film
Chihuahua (state)

**Chihuahua** () offeecially *Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua* () is ane o the 31 states which, wi the Federal Destrict, comprise the 32 Federal Entities o Mexico. Its caipital ceety is Chihuahua.

It is locatit in Northwastren Mexico. It is bordered bi the states o Sonora tae the wast, Sinaloa tae the soothwast, Durango tae the sooth, an Coahuila tae the east. Tae the north an northeast, it haes a lang line wi the U.S.-Mexico border adjacent tae the U.S. states o New Mexico an Texas.

Chihuahua is the lairgest state in Mexico bi aurie, wi a mainland aurie o , it is slichtly lairger than the Unitit Kinrick. It is consequently kent unner the nickname *El Estado Grande* ("The Big State").

The etymology o the name Chihuahua haes lang been disputit bi historians an linguists. The maist acceptit theory explains that the name wis derivit frae the Nahuatl leid meanin "The place whaur the watter o the rivers meet".

### Admeenistrative diveesions

Chihuahua is subdividit intae 67 *[[municipio (Mexico)|municipios]]* (municipalities).

## References

## Freemit airtins
*  Chihuahua state govrenment
*  Secretariat of Industrial Development of Chihuahua State Government 
*  Chihuahua's municipal governments 
*  Chihuahua photos 
*  Encyclopaedia Britannica, Chihuahua
*  Chihuahuan Frontier
Chihuahua, Chihuahua

The city o **Chihuahua** () is the caipital o the Mexican state o Chihuahua. It haes a population o aboot 825,327 fowk. The predominant activity is industry, includin domestic hivy, licht industries, consumer guids production, an tae a smawer extent *maquiladoras*.

## Demographics

Accordin tae the census o 2005, there wur 748,551 fowk livin in the city o Chihuahua, calculations tend tae establish that in 2007 there wur awmaist 800,000 fowk livin in Chihuahua, includin a substantial population frae the U.S.

The leeteracy rate in the city is amangst the heichest in the kintra at 98%; 35% o the population is aged 14 or ablo, 60% atween 15-65 an 5% ower 65. The growth rate is 2.4%. The life expectancy for males is 72 year an for weemen is 79 year.

## Sister cities
* El Paso, Texas, USA
* Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
* Pueblo, Colorado, USA

## References

## Freemit airtins
* Chihuahua City Steid
Durango

**Durango** () offeecially *Estado Libre y Soberano de Durango* () is ane o the 31 states which, wi the Federal Destrict, comprise the 32 Federal Entities o Mexico. The state is locatit in Northwast Mexico.  Wi a population o 1,632,934, it haes Mexico's seicont-lawest population density, efter Baja California Sur. The ceety o Victoria de Durango is the state's caipital.

## Major communities

Source: INEGI

## Municipalities

Durango is dividit intae *([[Municipalities o Durango|39 municipalities]])*.

## References

## Freemit airtins

* Durango State Govrenment 
*Film Commission Durango 
* Durango thoosans o picturs o local rural communities 
*John P. Schmal, "The history o indigenous Durango"  detailin the series o revolts
* Territorial Diveesion (legal text)
Zliten

**Zliten** ( **) is a toun in the Misrata Destrict o Libie. It is locatit on the soothren coast o the Mediterranean Sea wast o the Gulf o Sidra. It wis the caipital o the umwhile Zlitan Destrict.

## Location
The name Zliten is gien tae baith the toun an the whole aurie. As a toun, Zliten is situatit  east o the caipital, Tripoli, an aboot  east o the auncient Roman ceiety o Leptis Magna. It is aboot  wast o the ceety o Misrata an  east o Al Khums. It haes spread ower an aurie o aboot . The destrict o Zliten is widespread an covers an aurie o .  It is surroondit bi the Mediterranean frae the north, Misrata frae the east, Bani Walid frae the sooth an Khoms frae the wast.

## Name
The etymology o the ceety's name in Arabic is a vera controversial subject. Some experts contend that it oreeginatit frae an auld *[[Tamazight]]* (Berber) designation, while ithers claim it is actually frae Arabic for * the fig trees shadae* as that wis whaur traders uised tae meet in passin atween Tripoli an Misrata. Oreeginally twa wirds, it wis later compundit intae ane wird.

## History an cultur
Thare are mony auncient Roman steids in Zliten, such as the Villa o Omira ('Darbuk Omira' ), an the Castle in Al-Jumaa. The toun an aw contains the Mausoleum an Mosque o Sidi Abd As-Salam Al-Asmar, a revered Islamic saunt who livit an dee'd in Zliten durin the 15t century. Thare is some fine Arabic calligraphy in saundstane on tap o the ooter pillars o the biggin sayin *al-mulk-'illah* ("Iverything tae Allah"). The toun is famous for its olives, palm trees an citrus fruits alang bonnie coastal shores. The Slat Abn Shaif Synagogue () in Zliten is a historic synagogue an Lag Ba'omer pilgrimage steid for Libie Jews. It is ower 900 year auld.

## Notes

## See an aw
* Leet o ceeties in Libie

## Freemit airtins

*Zliten “Ceeties o the Saunts” 
*Zliten Hotel
Tamaulipas

**Tamaulipas** () offeecially *Estado Libre y Soberano de Tamaulipas* () is ane o the 31 states which, wi the Federal Destrict, comprise the 32 Federal Entities o Mexico. It is dividit in 43 municipalities an its caipital ceety is Ciudad Victoria. The caipital ceety wis namit efter Guadalupe Victoria, the first Preses o Mexico.  

It is locatit in Northeastren Mexico. It is bordered bi the states o Veracruz tae the sootheast, San Luis Potosí tae the soothwast an Nuevo León tae the wast. Tae the north, it haes a 370 km (142.9&nbsp;mi) stretch o the U.S.-Mexico border alang the state o Texas.

The name Tamaulipas is derivit frae **Tamaholipa**, a Huastec term in which the *tam-* prefix signifies "place whaur." As yet, there is nae scholarly greement on the meanin o *holipa*, but "heich hills" is a common interpretation.

In addition tae the caipital ceety, Ciudad Victoria, the state's lairgest ceeties include Reynosa, Matamoros, Nuevo Laredo, an Tampico.

## References

## Freemit airtins

* Tamaulipas state govrenment. 
* Ley de Escudo de Armas y el Himno de Tamaulipas
Monterrey

**Monterrey** (), is the caipital ceety o the northeastern state of Nuevo León in the kintra o Mexico. The ceety is anchor tae the third-lairgest metropolitan aurie in Mexico an is rankit as the nint-lairgest ceety in the naition. Monterrey serves as a commercial center in the north o the kintra an is the base o mony significant internaitional corporations. Furthermair, Monterrey is Mexico's seicont richest ceety, an the warld's 63rd richest, wi an economy that haed a 2008 GDP o USD $102 billion. Monterrey is ane o Mexico's maist developit ceeties, wi the heichest per caipita income in the naition, an is regardit as a heichlie developit ceety. Although rich in history an cultur, Monterrey is aften regardit as the maist "Americanizit" ceety in entire kintra, even abuin the ceeties alang the U.S-Mexico border. 

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns – Sister ceeties
Monterrey is twinned wi:

## References

## Freemit airtins
* Govrenment o the Ceety o Monterrey
Aalen

**Aalen** () is a ceety in the German state o Baden-Württemberg, aboot  east o Stuttgart an  north o Ulm. It is the seat o the Ostalbkreis destrict, an its lairgest ceety, as well as the lairgest ceety athin the Ostwürttemberg region. In spatial plannin, Aalen is designatit a *Mittelzentrum* (“medium-level centre”). Syne 1 Aprile 1956, Aalen haes the status o Große Kreisstadt (“major destrict toun”).

Wi an aurie o 146.63&nbsp;km2, Aalen is rankin poseetion 7 in Baden-Württemberg an poseetion 2 athin the Govrenment Region o Stuttgart, efter Stuttgart. Wi a population o aboot 66,000, Aalen is on poseetion 15 athin Baden-Württemberg.

## Internaitional relations
### Twinned ceeties

The “Twin Cities Society of Aalen” *(Städtepartnerschaftsverein Aalen e.&nbsp;V.)* promotes “friendly relations” atween Aalen and its twin cities, which comprises mutual exchanges o sports and cultural clubs, schools and ither civic institutions. On the occasion o the Reichsstädter Tage, frae 11 until 13&nbsp;September&nbsp;2009 the first conference o twinned cities wis held.

Aalen haes five twin ceeties:
*  Saint-Lô (Fraunce), syne 1978
*  Christchurch (Unitit Kinrick), syne 1981
*  Tatabánya (Hungary), syne 1987
*  Antakya (Turkey), syne 1995. This twinnin arrangement wis initiatit bi Ismail Demirtas, who emigratit in 1962 frae Turkey tae Aalen an wis social adviser for foreign employees.
*  Cervia (Italy), syne 2011

## Notes an references
Winterfylleth

*Winterfylleth* is a black metal baund formit in 2007, in Manchester, Ingland.
Winterfylleth's drummer Simon Lucas is an aw a camera operator for the Breetish paranormal documentary reality telly series Most Haunted.

## Discography
### Demos
* *Rising of the winter full moon* (2007)
### Studio albums
**[[The Ghost of Heritage]]* (2008)
**[[The Mercian Sphere]]* (2010)
**[[The Threnody Of Triumph]]* (2012)
**[[The Divination of Antiquity]]* (2014)
**[[The Dark Hereafter]]* (2016)
**[[The Hallowing of Heirdom]]* (2018)
**[[The Reckoning Dawn]]* (2020)

## References

## Freemit airtins

*Metal Storm 
*Metal Archives
Saxony

The **Free State o Saxony** ( ; ) is a landlockit state o Germany, contingent wi Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringie, Bavarie, the Czech Republic an Poland. It is the tent-lairgest German state in aurie, wi (, an the saxt maist-populous (4.3 million) o Germany's saxteen states.

Locatit in the middle o an erstwhile German-speakin pairt o Europe, the history o the state o Saxony spans mair nor a millennium. It haes been a medieval duchy, an electorate o the Holy Roman Empire, a kinrick an frae 1918 tae 1952, an then again frae 1990, a republic.

The aurie o the modren state o Saxony shoud no be ramfeeselt wi Auld Saxony, the aurie inhabitit bi Saxons. Auld Saxony corresponds approximately tae the modren German states o Lawer Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt an the Westphalie pairt o North Rhine-Westphalie.

## Geography
### Admeenistration
Sachsen is dividit intae three Direktionsbezirke&nbsp;— Chemnitz, Dresden, Leipzig&nbsp;— which are subdividit intae 10 destricts:

&nbsp; 1. Bautzen (BZ)
&nbsp; 2. Erzgebirgskreis (ERZ)
&nbsp; 3. Görlitz (GR)
&nbsp; 4. Leipzig (L)
&nbsp; 5. Meißen (MEI)(Meissen)
&nbsp; 6. Mittelsachsen (FG)
&nbsp; 7. Nordsachsen (TDO)
&nbsp; 8. Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge (PIR)
&nbsp; 9. Vogtlandkreis (V)
10. Zwickau (Z)

The Erzgebirgskreis destrict covers the Ore Muntains, an the Schweiz-Osterzgebirge destrict is Saxon Swisserland an the Eastren Ore Muntains.

In addition there are three urban destricts (), which an aw hae destrict status:

# Chemnitz (C)
# Dresden (DD)
# Leipzig (L)

## References

## Freemit airtins

* Offeecial govrenmental portal
* Christmas time in Saxony
* some facts aboot Saxony
* some stories about Dresden Neustadt - The Caipital o Saxony
Krisiun

**Krisiun** is a Brazilian daith metal baund, foondit bi brithers Alex Camargo (bass, vocals), Moyses Kolesne (guitars), an Max Kolesne (drums). Syne its formation, in 1990, the group recordit twa demos, *Evil Age* in 1991, an *Curse of the Evil One* in 1992, an sel-releasit an extendit play (EP) titled *Unmerciful Order* in 1993. Efter signin wi Dynamo Records (a Brazilian label), Krisiun released the debut full-length *[[Black Force Domain]]* in 1995, follaed bi *[[Apocalyptic Revelation]]*, in 1998. They signed wi major label Century Media in 1999, releasin a further 7 studio albums.

## Members
* Alex Camargo – bass, vocals
* Moyses Kolesne – guitar
* Max Kolesne – drums

### Umwhile members
* Altemir Souza – guitar
* Mauricio Nogueira – guitar

## Discography
### Albums
* 1995 - *[[Black Force Domain]]*
* 1998 - *[[Apocalyptic Revelation]]*
* 2000 - *[[Conquerors of Armageddon]]*
* 2001 - *[[Ageless Venomous]]*
* 2003 - *[[Works of Carnage]]*
* 2006 - *[[AssassiNation]]*
* 2008 - *[[Southern Storm]]*
* 2011 - *[[The Great Execution]]*

### EPs
* 1992 - *[[Course of the Evil One]]*
* 1993 - *[[Evil Age]]*
* 1993 - *[[Unmerciful Order]]*
* 2004 - *[[Bloodshed (album)|Bloodshed]]*

### Demos
* 1991 - *[[Evil Age]]*
* 1992 - *[[The Plague]]*

## References

## Freemit airtins
* Krisiun offeecial wabsteid 
* Krisiun at MySpace
Pará

**Pará** () is a state in the north o Brazil. It borders the Brazilian states o (clockwise frae north) Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas an Roraima. Tae the northwast it an aw borders Guyana an Suriname, an tae the northeast it borders the Atlantic Ocean. The caipital is Belém.

Pará is the maist populous state o the northren region wi a population o ower 6 million. It is the seicont lairgest state o Brazil in aurie, seicont anerlie tae Amazonas (it wis the third till Mato Grosso do Sul brak awa frae Mato Grosso in 1977). Its maist famous icons are the Amazon River an the Amazon Rainforest. Pará produces rubber (extractit frae natural rubber tree groves), tropical hardwoods such as mahogany, an minerals such as iron ore an bauxite. 

## References
Ardahan Province

**Ardahan Province** () is a province in the north-east o Turkey, at the vera end o the kintra, whaur Turkey borders wi Georgie. The provincial caipital is the ceety o **[[Ardahan]]**.

## Geography
This is attractive open kintraside which spends mony months o the year unner snaw. At this altitude temperatures on average reach -20&nbsp;°C an can drop belaw freezin aw year roond, includin simmer months.

The local economy depends on fermin an raisin livestock. Till 1993 Ardahan wis a destrict o the province o Kars, becomin a province in its awn right haes meant mair investment in infrastructur.

There are twa crossin points intae the Samtskhe-Javakheti destrict o Georgie, ane at Posof an the ither (currently closed) at Çıldır. The Turkis military hae a strang presence in this border destrict, anither boost tae the local economy.

## Population
Ardahan is an impoverished aurie that syne the 1950s haes seen a muckle number o its fowk migrate tae ither pairts o Turkey or abroad. The population declined frae 170,000 fowk in 1990 tae 119,000 in 2000. The population is 105,454 as o 2010. Ethnic groups in the region include, Turks, Georgies, Kipchaks, Turkmen, Karapapaks an Azeris.

## History
In 680 BC Scythians came athort the Caucasus frae the north an captured this aurie frae the Urartu Keengs that ruled frae their caipital on the shores o Lake Van tae the sooth. The Scythians wur replacit bi Persies an then in 330 BC Alexander the Great came through wi his airmies. Ethnic Georgies populatit the aurie, an in atween conquests, it wis a province o a Georgie Kinrick efter whose pairitition in the 1490s the aurie passed tae the atabegs o Samtskhe based in Akhaltsikhe till it wis taken ower bi the Ottoman Empire in 1578.

In 1878, efter the Russo-Turkis War (1877–1878), the region wis includit intae the Roushie Empire, an till 1918 wis kent as Kars Oblast. Pairt o the Democratic Republic o Georgie frae 1918 tae 1921, Ardahan wis reclaimit bi Turkey unner the Treaty o Kars in 1921.

The construction o the Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline gave the local economy a brief boost frae 2000 onwards.

## Destricts
Ardahan province is dividit intae 6 destricts (caipital destrict in **bauld**):
* **[[Ardahan]]**
* Çıldır
* Damal
* Göle
* Hanak
* Posof

## Ceeties an touns
*Ardahan Ceety 17,171 inh.
*Göle Ceety 6,231 inh.
*Hanak Ceety 4,030 inh.
*Damal Ceety 3,804 inh.
*Köprülü Toun 2,126 inh.
*Posof Ceety 1,810 inh.
*Çıldır Ceety 1,502 inh.

## Places o interest
* There are a number o medieval castles in the destrict includin Ardahan Castle itsel.
* At a certain time o the year Damal muntain throws a shadae that is a vera lifelike silhouette o Atatürk. See.
* Lake Çıldır

## See an aw

*Leet o populatit places in Ardahan Province

## References
Tekirdağ Province

The **Tekirdağ Province** (, ) is in Trakya (Thrace), the northwastren pairt o Turkey. The caipital ceety is Tekirdağ. It is famous for its meatbaw cried "Tekirdağ köfte" an the Turkis alcoholic drink cried *[[Raki (alcoholic beverage)|Tekirdağ rakısı]]*.

## Destricts
Tekirdağ province is dividit intae 9 destricts (caipital destrict in **bauld**):
*Çerkezköy
*Çorlu
*Hayrabolu
*Malkara
*Marmara Ereğli
*Muratlı
*Saray
*Şarköy
***[[Tekirdağ]]**

## References

## Freemit airtins

* Tekirdağ govrenor's offeecial wabsteid  / 
* Tekirdağ municipality's offeecial websteid  
* Tekirdağ wather forecast information
Bursa Province

**Bursa Province** () is a province in wastren Turkey, alang the Sea o Marmara. Its adjacent provinces are Balıkesir tae the wast, Kütahya tae the sooth, Bilecik an Sakarya tae the east, Kocaeli tae the northeast an Yalova tae the north. The province haes an area o 11,043 km2 an a population o 3,187,000 (2010 est). It wis 2,125,140 accordin tae the 2000 census. In 1990 it haed a population o 1,603,137. The traffic code is 16. The ceity o Bursa wis the caipital o the Ottoman State till the conquest o Edirne. Maist pairt o the province remained in Marmara Region except destricts o Büyükorhan, Harmancık, Keles an Orhaneli, who are bundit tae Aegean Region.
## Destricts
Bursa province is dividit intae 17 destricts (caipital destrict in **bauld**):
*Büyükorhan
*Gemlik
*Gürsu
*Harmancık
*İnegöl
*İznik
*Karacabey
*Keles
*Kestel
*Mudanya
*Mustafakemalpaşa
***[[Nilüfer, Bursa|Nilüfer]]**
*Orhaneli
*Orhangazi
***[[Osmangazi]]**
*Yenişehir
***[[Yıldırım, Bursa|Yıldırım]]**

## See an aw
* Ceety o Bursa
* İznik
## References

## Freemit airtins

*  Picturs o the caipital o this province
*  Bursa Wather Forecast Information 
*  Bursa ceety sport portal, Bursa
*  Gokoz Veelage, Bursa  
*  Golyaka Veelage - orhangazi picturs an information, Bursa 
*  Bursa travel & tourism
Hjørring Municipality

**Hjørring Municipality** is a municipality (Dens: *[[Municipalities o Denmark|kommune]]*) in the North Denmark Region on the wast coast o the island o Vendsyssel-Thy at the top o the Jutland peninsulae in northren Denmark.  The municipality covers an aurie o 929,58 km², makkin it the lairgest in Vendsyssel, an it haes a total population o 67,121 (2008).  Its current mayor is Arne Boelt, a member o the Social Democrats (*Socialdemokraterne*) poleetical pairty.

The main toun an the steid o its municipal cooncil is the toun o Hjørring. Ither touns in the municipality includes the harbour toun o Hirtshals tae the north, sea side resorts Løkken an Lønstrup tae the wast, Tårs an Vrå tae the sooth an Sindal an Bindslev tae the East. 

On 1 Januar 2007 Hjørring municipality wis, as the result o ''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipal Reform" o 2007), mergit wi existin Hirtshals, Løkken-Vrå, an Sindal municipalities tae form an enlairgit Hjørring municipality.

## The toun o Hjørring

The toun o Hjørring is the lairgest toun in Vendsyssel an haes a population o 24,789 (2004). It is ane o Denmark's auldest touns, an it celebratit its 750 year anniversary as a mercat toun in 1993.

Airchaeological discoveries show that the aurie wis awready populatit 10,000 years ago.

A major fire burned doun hintle o the toun in 1819.

There are guid educational opportunities in the toun includin a gymnasium (the Dens equivalent o a heich schuil/pre college), a business gymnasium an a nursin schuil. 

## See an aw
* Rubjerg Knude lichthoose

## Freemit airtins

* Municipality's offeecial wabsteid

* Municipal statistics: NetBorger Kommunefakta , delivered frae KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
* Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map
Svenstrup

**Svenstrup** is a toun in Aalborg Municipality wi a population o 6,785 (2012), in the North Denmark Region o Denmark. It is locatit 3&nbsp;km sooth o Aalborg. The toun haes a train station, which opened in 2003. The station is connectit tae the railwey atween Aalborg Station an Århus Central Station.

The Battle o Svenstrup wis fought durin the Coont's Feud in 1534 on the fields juist ootside o Svenstrup.

## References
Central Macedonie

**Central Macedonie** () is ane o the thirteen regions o Greece, consistin o the central pairt o the region o Macedonia. Wi a population o ower 1.8 million, it is the seicont maist populous in Greece efter Attica.

## Admeenistration
The region wis established in the 1987 admeenistrative reform. Wi the 2010 Kallikratis plan, its pouers an authority wur redefined an extendit. Alang wi East Macedonie an Thrace, it is supervisit bi the Decentralized Admeenistration o Macedonie an Thrace which is based in Thessaloniki. The region is based at its caipital ceety o Thessaloniki an is dividit intae seiven regional units (pre-Kallikratis prefecturs), Chalkidiki, Imathia, Kilkis, Pella, Pieria, Serres an Thessaloniki. These are further subdividit intae 38 municipalities. 

Although geographically pairt o central Macedonie, Munt Athos is no admeenistratively pairt o the region, but an autonomous sel-govrenin state unner the sovereignty o Greece.

The region's govrenor is, syne 1 Januar 2011, Panagiotis Psomiadis, who wis electit in the November 2010 local admeenistration elections for the New Democracy pairty.

## Economy
Central Macedonie is Greece's maist visitit region an accoonts for 18.2% o the total tourist flow in the kintra, wi 3.21 million tourists in 2008. In 2007, the Purchasin Pouer Parity o Central Macedonie wis 81% o the EU average accordin tae Eurostat, placin it near the naitional average o 90.5%, but well belaw the PPP o Attica, which wis 109%. In 2008, the GDP per caipita o Central Macedonie wis  ().

## Major ceeties an touns
*Edessa
*Katerini
*Kilkis
*Polygyros
*Serres
*Thessaloniki
*Veria

## References

## Freemit airtins
*Region o Central Macedonie Offeecial wabsteid
Eastren Uusimaa

**Eastern Uusimaa** (; ) wis a region in Finland, till it wis consolidatit wi the region o Uusimaa on 1 Januar  2011. It bordered tae the regions Uusimaa, Päijänne Tavastie, an Kymenlaakso.

## Historical provinces

## Municipalities

Thare wur 7 municipalities in Eastern Uusimaa. Ceeties an touns are markt in bauld. The first name is the name o the municipality in the majority (or sole) leid o the municipality. The offeecial name (whaur thare is ane) in the ither naitional leid is gien in brackets.

**Porvoo Sub-region:**

* Askola
* Myrskylä (Mörskom)
* Pukkila (Buckila)
* **[[Porvoo]]** (Borgå)
* Sipoo (Sibbo)


**Loviisa Sub-region:**

* Lapinjärvi (Lappträsk)
* **[[Loviisa]]** (Lovisa)


## Notes

## Freemit airtins

*Eastren Uusimaa Regional Cooncil
Gori, Georgie

**Gori** () is a ceety in eastren Georgie, which serves as the regional caipital o Shida Kartli an the centre o the homonymous admeenistrative destrict. The name is frae Georgie *gora* (გორა), that is, "heap", or "hill". As o 2014, it haed a population o 48,143.

Gori wis a important militar stranghauld in the Middle Ages an maintains a strategic importance due tae its location on the principal heich-gate connectin eastren an wastren pairts o Georgie. In the course o its history, Gori haes been invadit bi the airmies o regional pouers several times. The ceety wis occupeed bi Roushie troops durin the Roushie-Georgie War.

Gori is kent as the birthplace o the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin an ballistic missile designer Alexander Nadiradze an aw.

## Geografie an climate
Gori is locatit  wast o Georgie's caipital Tbilisi, at the confluence o the rivers Mtkvari an Greater Liakhvi,  abuin sea level. The climate is transitional frae moderately warm steppe tae moderately humid. Simmer is uisually hot. The average annual temperatur is , minimal in Januar () an maximal in August (). The maximum precipitation faws in Mey () an minimum in August () an Januar ().

## References

## Freemit airtins

*Offeecial Steid 
*Map o Gori 
*On Gori, Georgie
*Live WebCam Gori
Racha-Lechkhumi an Kvemo Svaneti

**Racha-Lechkhumi an Kvemo Svaneti** (Georgie: რაჭა-ლეჩხუმი და ქვემო სვანეთი *Račʼa-Lečxumi da Kvemo Svaneti*) is a region in northwastren Georgie which includes the historical provinces o Racha, Lechkhumi an Kvemo Svaneti (i.e., Lawer Svaneti). It covers an aurie o 4,954 km² an haes a population o 32,089 (2014 census). It is the maist spairsely populatit region in the kintra. The caipital is Ambrolauri.

## Geography
Racha-Lechkhumi an Kvemo Svaneti is traversed bi the northeasterly line o equal latitude an langitude.

## Freemit airtins
*  Svaneti Ru

## References
Kvemo Kartli

**Kvemo Kartli** (Lawer Kartli, Georgie: ქვემო ქართლი) is a historic province an current admeenistrative region in sootheastren Georgie. The ceety o Rustavi is the regional caipital. The population is mixed atween Georgies (51%) an Azeris (42%). The current govrenor is Shota Rekhviashvili. 

## References

## Freemit airtins
* Offeecial wabsteid 
* Kartli Portal
Result o population census 2002 in Georgie (in Georgie leid)
Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti

**Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti** (Georgie: სამეგრელო-ზემო სვანეთი) is a region in wastren Georgie which includes the historical Georgie provinces o Samegrelo (Mingrelia) an Zemo Svaneti (i.e., Upper Svaneti) an haes Zugdidi as its caipital.

## Geography
Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti is traversed bi twa sections o the northeasterly line o equal latitude an langitude.

## Freemit airtins
*Official web-site Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti