Plungė

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Plungė is a town in northwestern Lithuania that serves as an important cultural and economic center of the Samogitia region.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Plungė canonical 5
Plunge, Lithuania 1

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Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf town
administrativeCenterOf Plungė District Municipality
climate humid continental climate
coatOfArms Coat of arms of Plungė
country Lithuania
countryCode LT
crosses Babrungas River
distanceTo about 45 km west of Telšiai
about 60 km east of Klaipėda
drainageBasin Baltic Sea basin
ethnographicRegion Samogitia
hasCulturalInstitution Plungė Cultural Center
Plungė Public Library
hasEducationalInstitution Plungė Ryto Primary School
Plungė Saulės Gymnasium
hasFestival Plungė City Festival
hasIndustry food industry
light industry
wood processing
hasManor Plungė Manor
hasMinorityLanguage Samogitian dialect
hasMuseum Samogitian Art Museum in Plungė Manor
hasPark Plungė Manor Park
hasReligiousBuilding Church of St. John the Baptist, Plungė
hasSportsClub FK Babrungas Plungė
historicalRegion Samogitia
isPartOf Plungė District Municipality
Telšiai County
locatedIn Samogitia
northwestern Lithuania
locatedOnContinent Europe
municipalStatus district municipality center
nearbyCity Klaipėda
Telšiai
officialLanguage Lithuanian
population over 20,000 inhabitants
postalCodePrefix 901
roadConnection A11 highway (Šiauliai–Palanga)
role cultural center of Samogitia
economic center of Samogitia
timeZone Eastern European Time
timeZoneDST Eastern European Summer Time
transport railway connection
regional bus connections

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Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Samogitia majorCity Plungė
Menden twinnedWith Plunge, Lithuania
linked to: Plungė
Wanda Rutkiewicz placeOfBirth Plungė
subject linked to: Rutkiewicz