Lanchkhuti

City in Guria, Georgia

42°5′15″N 42°2′10″E / 42.08750°N 42.03611°E / 42.08750; 42.03611Country

GeorgiaRegionGuriaDistrictLanchkhutiElevation

25 m (82 ft)Population

(2024)^[1]

• Total6,213Time zoneUTC+4 (Georgian Time)

Lanchkhuti (Georgian: ლანჩხუთი) is a city in western Georgian region of Guria. It has a population of about 6,395.^[2]

Lanchkhuti received city status in 1961. Under the USSR, it was the centre of the Georgian SSR Lanchkhuti area and today continues to serve as the capital of the eponymous district within the Guria region.

Lanchkhuti is an industrial town with a tea processing factory, cannery, meat and dairy factory and a brick and tile factory. The town is served by a railway station on the Samtredia-Batumi line.

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Cody, Wyoming, United States^[3]
Kupiškis District Municipality, Lithuania

Sports

The local football club is FC Guria Lanchkhuti, who play their home games at the Evgrapi Shevardnadze Stadium. They played one season in the Soviet Top League and won the 1990 Georgian Cup.

References

^ "Population by regions". National Statistics Office of Georgia. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
^ "Population Census 2014". www.geostat.ge. National Statistics Office of Georgia. November 2014. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
^ legacy.sistercities.org http://legacy.sistercities.org/interactive-map/Lanchkhuti,%20Georgia. Retrieved 2019-08-06. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)