“…In addition, Lithuanian social geographers are attentive to the spatial differentiation of the population in the three metropolitan regions of Lithuania (Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda), where the analysis of population segregation (spatial residence differentiation) of these three metropoles is presented in detail and includes: demographic, socio-economic, national territorial differentiation, electoral residency differentiation (Burneika et al, 2017). There is in addition, a newly formed typology of the level of Lithuanian urbanization at the level of elderships (LAU-2) (Baranauskienė, 2019), where urbanized, suburban territories or territories are closely connected with the city (strongly dependent on the city administrative center) and non-urban areas. The methodology for determining the level of urbanization is based on three exclusion principles: according to the predominant type of settlement (city or village), according to population change in the analyzed period (positive population change is attributed to urban areas) and according to the location of the administrative center (the administrative center operates in an urban or rural type area).…”