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Lithuania is the largest of the Baltic states and a country with very little relief: lowland, forest, lakes and farmland from the Baltic coast to the Belarusian border. Knowing you are in Lithuania says little about where, so the county, or apskritis, is the first unit worth knowing. This page and the game cover all ten, and the clues that tell you which one you are standing in.
Each county is named after its main city, and the ten are Alytus, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Marijampolė, Panevėžys, Šiauliai, Tauragė, Telšiai, Utena and Vilnius. They have been the top tier of the country's territorial division since the 1990s, but they are no longer a layer of government: the county governors' administrations were abolished in 2010, and the municipalities beneath them now do the work. The counties survive as the statistical regions of the country and as the tier that plates, statistics and the Lithuanian address system still refer to.
The names are written with Lithuanian letters, and the game asks for them that way: Klaipėda, Marijampolė, Panevėžys, Šiauliai, Tauragė and Telšiai.
Vilnius County is not just the area round the capital. It runs from the Belarusian border in the south, past Vilnius, up to the north east corner of the country at Švenčionys, and across to Ukmergė in the west. Utena County, which looks as though it should hold the north east, is the part just north of it.
Klaipėda: the only county with a coast, the port of Lithuania and the home of the Curonian Spit, the sand strip shared with the Kaliningrad region. Anything on the Baltic is this one.
Vilnius County: the capital and its district, the border with Belarus, and a tail that reaches to the north east. Trakai with its island castle is in it, and so is Švenčionys, far from Vilnius itself.
Tauragė: a small county in the west, along the Nemunas where the river forms the border with the Kaliningrad region. Anything on that stretch of the river is this one or Marijampolė.
Ten: Alytus, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Marijampolė, Panevėžys, Šiauliai, Tauragė, Telšiai, Utena and Vilnius. Each is named after its main city.
No. The county governors' administrations were abolished in 2010. The counties remain as a territorial and statistical division, and the municipalities below them carry out local government.
Vilnius County, in the south east of the country near the Belarusian border.
Klaipėda County is the only one with a Baltic coast, and it includes the Lithuanian half of the Curonian Spit.
Vilnius and Utena in the east, because Vilnius County reaches round Utena's southern edge, and Šiauliai and Telšiai in the north west.
The tier below this one is Lithuania Municipalities, and the ten counties are its groups. The other European administrative maps here are Slovenia Regions, Denmark Regions and Poland Voivodeships.
