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# Šalčininkai

A settlement in Lithuania.

## English name

**Šalčininkai** — Official Lithuanian Latin-script name retained in English.

Other forms in use:

- **Soleczniki** — Polish community and historical name explicitly used in English accounts of the Vilnius region.
- **Šalčininkai Didieji** — Expanded Lithuanian name used before the short name was adopted; not a separate modern settlement.
- **Salcininkai** — Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Šalčininkai for English retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified.
- **Salcininkai Didieji** — Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Šalčininkai Didieji for English retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified.

## French name

**Šalčininkai** — Same as in English; used as the French geographical reference heading.

Other forms in use:

- **Soleczniki** — Polish historical name explicitly quoted in the French locality reference.
- **Salcininkai** — Diacritic-free typing/indexing variant of Šalčininkai for French retrieval; independent prose frequency is unverified.

## About

Šalčininkai is a town south of Vilnius near Lithuania's border with Belarus. It is an administrative centre in a district with a large Polish-speaking population.

## Notes

Šalčininkai is the present Lithuanian civic main. Polish Soleczniki remains a community name, not solely an obsolete administrative label; the district has a large Polish-speaking population. Sources checked 2026-11-15: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Šalčininkai ; https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Šalčininkai ; https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шальчинінкай ; https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/Салечнікі.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q391011](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q391011) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/lithuania/salcininkai/?format=json)


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