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Total population | ||||
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14,168 0.5% of the Lithuanian population[1] | ||||
Regions with significant populations | ||||
Vilnius, Klaipėda, Visaginas, Kaunas | ||||
Languages | ||||
Russian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian | ||||
Religion | ||||
Ukrainian Catholic, Ukrainian Orthodox | ||||
Related ethnic groups | ||||
Ukrainians, Slavic Peoples especially East Slavs |
The Ukrainians in Lithuania (Ukrainian: Українці, romanized: Ukraintsi; Lithuanian: Ukrainiečiai) numbered 14,168 persons at the 2021 Lithuanian census, and at 0.5% of the total population of Lithuania (approximately 2,810,761).[1] The Ukrainian national minority in Lithuania has deep historical and cultural relations. Many prominent figures of Ukraine such as Taras Shevchenko, Meletius Smotrytsky, Yakiv Holovatsky, St. Yosafat (in the world — Ivan Kuntsevich, a religious figure of Greco-Catholic church canonized in 1967) and others stayed and created in Lithuania.