Kovno Governorate

Kovno Governorate Ковенская губеpния Kovenskaya guberniya
Governorate of the Russian Empire
← 20px 1843–1915 →
Coat of arms of Kaunas Coat of arms
Location of Kaunas Kovno Governorate within the Russian Empire
Capital		Kaunas (Kovno)
History
•	Order of tzar Nicholas I of 18 December 1842	1 July 1843 1843
•	World War I	1915
Today part of		Belarus Latvia Lithuania

Kovno Governorate (Russian: Ковенская губеpния, tr. Kovenskaya guberniya; Lithuanian: Kauno gubernija) or Governorate of Kaunas was a governorate (guberniya) of the Russian Empire. Its capital was Kaunas (Kovno in Russian). It was formed on 18 December 1842 by Tsar Nicholas I from the western part of Vilna Governorate, and the order was carried out on 1 July 1843. It was part of the Vilna Governorate-General and Northwestern Krai. The governorate included almost the entire Lithuanian region of Samogitia and the northern part of Aukštaitija.

Counties

The governorate was divided into seven uyezds:

County	County Seat	Area (km2)	Population in 1897	Population in 1914
Kovensky Uyezd	Kovno	4,029	227,500	301,800
Novoalexandrovsky Uyezd	Novoaleksandrovsk	5,437	208,500	242,300
Ponevezhsky Uyezd	Ponevezh	6,215	222,900	259,700
Rossiyensky Uyezd	Rossiyeny	6,485	235,400	279,200
Shavelsky Uyezd	Shavli	6,922	238,000	294,500
Telshevsky Uyezd	Telshi	5,306	183,400	216,000
Vilkomirsky Uyezd	Vilkomir	5,866	229,100	263,600
Total		40,260	1,544,600	1,857,100

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