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Kovno Governorate Ковенская губернія (Russian) Kauno gubernija (Lithuanian)
Governorate
Coat of arms
Location in the Russian Empire
Country	Russian Empire
Krai	Northwestern
Established	1843
Abolished	1918
Capital	Kovno
Area
• Total	40,641.36 km² (15,691.72 sq mi)
Population (1897)
• Total	1,638,374
• Density	40/km² (100/sq mi)

Kovno Governorate^[a] 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:^[1]

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

Notes

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References

^ Vaitiekūnas, Stasys (2006). Lietuvos gyventojai: Per du tūkstantmečius (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas. pp. 86, 121. ISBN 5-420-01585-4.

v t e Western Krai Governorates of the Russian Empire 1795–1912
Northwestern Krai	Vilna Governorate Kovno Governorate Grodno Governorate Minsk Governorate Mogilev Governorate Vitebsk Governorate
Southwestern Krai	Volhynia Governorate Podolia Governorate Kiev Governorate Kholm Governorate (from 1912)

v t e Subdivisions of the Russian Empire
Governorates (List)	Azov¹ +Altai² Arkhangelsk Archangelgorod Astrakhan Belgorod Bessarabia Bratslav Belarus Caucasus Chernigov Grodno Finland Iziaslav Ingermanland Irkutsk Kazan Kaluga Kiev (1708) Kiev Kharkov Kherson Kholm Kovno Kolyvan Kostroma Kursk Lithuania Little Russia (1764) Little Russia (1796) Minsk Mogilev Moscow Nikolayev Nizhny Novgorod Novgorod-Seversky Novgorod Novorossiya Olonets Orenburg Oryol Penza Perm Petrograd² Podolia Polotsk* Poltava Pskov Ryazan Samara Saint Petersburg Saratov Siberia Simbirsk Sloboda Ukraine Slonim Smolensk Stavropol Taurida Tambov Tver Tobolsk Tomsk Tula Ufa Vilna Vitebsk Vladimir Voznesensk Vologda Volhynia Voronezh Vyatka Vyborg Yaroslavl Yekaterinoslav Yeniseysk
Oblasts	Amur Belostok Bessarabia Don Host Transbaikal Kamchatka Caspian Kwantung Orenburg Kirghiz Omsk Primorskaya Sakhalin Taurida Tarnopol Turgay Ural Yakutsk
Oblasts of Stepnoy Krai	Akmolinsk Siberian Kirghiz Semipalatinsk
Oblasts of Turkestan Krai	Transcaspian Samarkand Semirechye Oblast Syr-Darya Oblast Turkestan Fergana
Caucasus Viceroyalty	Baku (Governorate) Black Sea Derbent Elizavetpol Erivan Georgia-Imeretia Georgia Kutaisi Shemakha Tiflis Armenian Batum Dagestan Imeretia Kars Kuban Terek Sukhumi Zakatal Baku (Gradonachalstvo)
Baltic Governorates³	Courland Livonia Reval Riga Estonia
Governorates of Finland	Abo-Byorneborg Vaza Vyborg Kuopio Nyuland Sankt-Mikhel Tavastgus Uleaborg
Governorates of Poland	Avgustov Warsaw Kalish Keltsy Krakov Lomzha Lyublin Mazovia Petrokov Plotsk Podlyashye Radom Sandomir Sedlets Suvalki
Governorates of Galicia and Bukovina	Lvov Peremyshl Tarnopol Chernovtsy
Dependencies	Bukey Horde Emirate of Bukhara Khanate of Kokand Russian America Uryankhay Krai² Khanate of Khiva Zeravshan Okrug*
¹ Italics indicates renamed or abolished governorates, oblasts, etc on 1 January 1914. ² An asterisk (+) indicates governorates formed or created with renaming after 1 January 1914. ³ Ostsee or Baltic general-governorship was abolished in 1876.