Kandava Municipality

Kandava Municipality (Latvian: Kandavas novads) is a municipality in Courland, Latvia. The municipality was formed in 1999 by merging Cēre parish and Kandava town with its countryside territory. Later it absorbed Matkule parish, Vāne parish, Zante parish and Zemīte parish the administrative centre being Kandava.

Kandava Municipality

Kandavas novads
Municipality
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Coat of arms
Country Latvia
Formed1999
CentreKandava
Government
 • ChairwomanInga Priede (LZP)
Area
 • Total650.9 km2 (251.3 sq mi)
Population
 (2009)[2]
 • Total10,057
 • Density15/km2 (40/sq mi)
Websitewww.kandava.lv

Twin towns – sister cities
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Latvia

Kandava is a member of the Charter of European Rural Communities, a town twinning association across the European Union.[3]

Charter of European Rural Communities

Other twin towns[4]

See also

References
  1. The Ministry of Regional Development and Local Government of the Republic of Latvia Archived 7 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "The Central Election Commission of Latvia". Archived from the original on 5 February 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2009.
  3. "Charter members". europeancharter.eu. Charter of European Rural Communities. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  4. "Kandavas novada pašvaldības ārvalstu sadarbības partneri". kandava.lv (in Latvian). Kandava. Retrieved 6 September 2019.


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