Kaliningrad

Kaliningrad (Roushie: Калинингра́д‎; Template:Lang-pl; Lithuanie: Karaliaučius; Template:Lang-gr) is a seaport an the admeenistrative center o Kaliningrad Oblast, the Roushie exclave atween Poland and Lithuanie on the Baltic Sea. The territory, the northren pairt o the umwhile East Prussie, borders on NATO an EU members Poland an Lithuanie, an is geographically separatit frae the rest o Roushie.

Oreeginally named Königsberg in German (Roushie: Кёнигсберг‎, Lithuanie: Karaliaučius, Template:Lang-pl, Auld Prussian: Twānkstathe an "Kunnegsgarbs", Laitin: Regiomontium), the toun wis founded in 1255, an wis lairgely destroyed durin Warld War II. Its ruins wur occupied bi the Soviet Airmy in 1945 an its German citizens forced oot. It wis renamed Kaliningrad in 1946 in honour o Mikhail Kalinin.

At the 2002 Census, its population wis 430,003, an increase frae the 401,280 recordit in the 1989 Census. Its ethnic composition is 77.9% Roushies, 8.0% Belaroushies, 7.3% Ukrainians, 1.9% Lithuanians, 0.6% Germans, and 0.5% Poles.

Internaitional relations

Twin touns - sister ceeties

Kaliningrad is twinned wi:

Murmansk in Roushie Gdańsk, Poland (since 1993) Gdynia in Poland Zwolle in Netherlands Toruń in Poland Białystok in Poland Zabrze in Poland

Łódź in Poland (since 1992) Olsztyn in Poland Malmö in Swaden Kiel in Germany Norfolk in Virginia, Unitit States Kalmar, Swaden

Mexico Ceety in Mexico Groningen in Netherlands Klaipėda in Lithuanie Šiauliai in Lithuanie Cork in Ireland Aalborg in Denmark

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