Rūsingė

Rūsingė
Rūsingė
	Village
	Rūsingė
	Coordinates: 54°08′05″N24°05′25″E / 54.13472°N 24.09028°E Coordinates: 54°08′05″N24°05′25″E / 54.13472°N 24.09028°E
Country	Lithuania
County	Alytus County
Municipality	Varėna district municipality
Eldership	Merkinė eldership
Population (2001)
• Total	31
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)

Last updated February 19, 2019

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Rūsingė is a village in Varėna district municipality, in Alytus County, in southeastern Lithuania. According to the 2001 census, the village has a population of 31 people.^[1]

Alytus County is one of ten counties in Lithuania. It is the southernmost county, and its capital is the city of Alytus. Its territory lies within the ethnographic region of Dzūkija. On 1 July 2010, the county administration was abolished, and since that date, Alytus County remains as the territorial and statistical unit.

Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. Since its independence, Lithuania is considered to be one of the Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, to the east of Sweden and Denmark. It is bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest. Lithuania has an estimated population of 2.7 million people as of 2019, and its capital and largest city is Vilnius. Other major cities are Kaunas and Klaipėda. Lithuanians are Baltic people. The official language, Lithuanian, along with Latvian, is one of only two living languages in the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family.

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References

↑ Alytaus apskrities kaimo gyvenamosios vietovės ir jų gyventojai (PDF) (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Department of Statistics to the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. 2002. p. 57. ISBN 9986-589-83-5.

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[census-1] Alytaus apskrities kaimo gyvenamosios vietovės ir jų gyventojai (PDF) (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Department of Statistics to the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. 2002. p. 57. ISBN 9986-589-83-5.