Ķekava municipality
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Ķekava municipality is a municipality
in Latvia
. The municipality was formed in 2009 by merging Baloži
town
, Daugmale parish
and Ķekava parish
the administrative centre being Ķekava
.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in 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...
. The municipality was formed in 2009 by merging Baloži
Baloži
Baloži is a town of Latvia situated in the Ķekava municipality. As of 2006, the city has a population of 4,481.Baloži was founded soon after the Second World War; as a village at the time, it was developed for the nearby peat factory workers. Baloži has been classified as a city since 1991.-See...
town
Town
A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...
, Daugmale parish
Daugmale parish
- Towns, villages and settlements of Daugmale parish :*...
and Ķekava parish
Ķekava parish
- Towns, villages and settlements of Ķekava parish :* Ķekava...
the administrative centre being Ķekava
Kekava
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