Jelgava District was an administrative division

Districts of Latvia

||Before July 1, 2009 Latvia was divided into 26 districts and 7 cities , indicated with asterisks:...

 of Latvia

Latvia

Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

, located in Semigallia region, in the country's centre. It was organized into a city, two municipalities and twelve parishes, each with a local government authority. The administrative centre of the district was Jelgava

Jelgava

-Sports:The city's main football team, FK Jelgava, plays in the Latvian Higher League and won the 2009/2010 Latvian Football Cup.- Notable people :*August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein - linguist, folklorist, ethnographer...

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Districts were eliminated during the administrative-territorial reform in 2009.

Cities, municipalities and parishes of the Jelgava District

• Eleja parish
• Glūda parish
• Jaunsvirlauka parish
• Kalnciems
  Kalnciems
  Kalnciems is a village in the Jelgava municipality of Latvia. It had town rights from 1991 to 2010. The nearby Kalnciems Meadows is a natural habitat for fauna such as the Corn crake, Spotted crake, and Black-tailed Godwit.-Famous people born in Kalnciems :...
  
   city
• Lielplatone parish

• Līvbērze parish
• Ozolnieki
  Ozolnieki
  Ozolnieki is a village in Latvia, the administrative centre of Ozolnieki municipality. The village located at Iecava river approximately from the capital Riga and from city Jelgava....
  
   municipality
• Platone parish
• Sesava parish
• Sidrabene parish

• Svēte
  Svete
  -Towns, villages and settlements of Svēte parish:*...
  
   parish
• Valgunde municipality
• Vilce parish
• Vircava parish
• Zaļenieki parish