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Klaipeda city (702 words) |
 | Klaipeda is also the biggest center of culture, education and industry in the Western part of Lithuania. |
 | However, Klaipeda experienced its golden age only in lath century, when close trading connections between the kingdom of Prussia and the Lithuanian-Polish state were established. |
 | Although the city was far from the large centers of Germany, it could not escape all of the innovations at the end of the 19th century. |
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Eurostat (824 words) |
 | Klaipeda county is situated in the western part of Lithuania, in the Pajuris lowland. |
 | At the heart of the county is Klaipeda city, the third largest city by size in Lithuania, and its only seaport, the functioning of which influences the economy of the region, its structure as well as the lifestyle of inhabitants. |
 | Klaipeda county borders on the Russian enclave Kaliningrad in the south and Latvia in the north. |