Vilnius urban area

See also: Vilnius District Municipality

Vilnius urban area Vilniaus aglomeracija
Urban area
From top, left to right: Šnipiškės Vilnius western bypass Trakai Island Castle Didžioji Riešė Skaidiškės
Vilnius City (orange) and District (green) Municipalities
Country	Lithuania
Largest city	Vilnius
Area
• Urban	2,529 km2 (976 sq mi)
Population  (2023)
• Urban	747,864
GDP
• Metro	€29.4 billion (2022)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)

Vilnius urban sprawl from space, ESA

The Vilnius urban area (known in Lithuanian as: Vilniaus aglomeracija) is the urban area of Vilnius. The urban area covers several municipalities in the Vilnius County, with a total built-up area of around 350 km².

Demographics

The largest cities or towns within the urban area are Vilnius, Lentvaris, Grigiškės, Trakai, Nemenčinė, Rudamina, Pagiriai and Skaidiškės.

Subdivision	Area (km2)	Population
Vilnius	400	602,430
Vilnius District Municipality	2129	106,197
Trakai District Municipality	1208	32,546

Definition

While Vilnius urban area occupies only most of Vilnius City and Vilnius District municipalities and a small part of Trakai District, Vilnius metropolitan region is a larger entity, occupying, depending on definition, most or all of Vilnius county, at some cases, stretching also well into Alytus and Utena counties.

Dual-City (Dipolis)

Dual city of Vilnius and Kaunas (known in Lithuanian as: Vilniaus ir Kauno dvimiestis or dipolis) is an idea to combine resources of Vilnius and Kaunas to be able to compete with larger European cities like Warsaw, Budapest, Bucharest or Prague for Western investments. The plan, which includes various forms of collaboration and vocalizes the idea, among all the other projects,– of fast commuting between the two (most notably – the construction of high speed rail) is not fully realized but idea is slowly being implemented (see: Rail Baltica) and is brought up by politicians every year. Combined metropolitan area of both cities would have population of more than 1.0 million and would produce more than a half of Lithuania's total GDP.

Economy

In 2022 Vilnius gross metropolitan product was almost €30 billion. This puts Vilnius in 80th place among cities in European Union.

Gallery

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  Yellow dotted line defines approximate borders of Vilnius urban area, while green colour shows municipalities which have territory in urban area. Grey shows rest of municipalities in Vilnius County
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  Limits of Vilnius city functional region according to intensity of traffic of daily commuters (the data of Lithuanian Road Administration under the Ministry of Transport and Communications)
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  Vilnius city bus in Lentvaris
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  Lentvaris railway station. Commuting from the town to Vilnius is widespread by rail, cars as well as some bus routes of Vilnius municipal buses run through Lentvaris.
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  New multi-storey housing is being built outside Vilnius like this residential house in Grigiškės
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  Some Vilnius city bus routes run through Grigiškės, Lentvaris, Klevinė, Bendoriai, Didžioji Riešė and other suburbs in Vilnius district and Trakai district municipalities
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  Zujūnai, one of suburbs of Vilnius
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  Suburban housing in Didžioji Riešė, an example of urban sprawl
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  Klevinė village where the number of inhabitants grew from just 11 in 2001 to 931 in 2021
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  Rows of suburban housing outside Vilnius in Vilnius district municipality
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  New housing some 6-7 km. to the north of the city border of Vilnius
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  Private houses, built after the 1992 in Gineitiškės village as seen from Pašilaičiai tower blocks

See also

• List of EU metropolitan areas by GDP
• List of metropolitan areas in Europe
• Kaunas urban area