Ūta

Ūta
Ūta
Village
	Ūta Ūta
	Coordinates: 54°06′22″N 24°38′38″E
Country	Lithuania
County	Alytus
Municipality	Varėna
Eldership	Kaniavos (Kaniava)
Population (2011 Census)[1]
• Total	11
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Ūta is a village in Kaniavos eldership, Varėna district municipality, Alytus County, southeastern Lithuania. According to the 2001 census, the village had a population of 25 people.[2] At the 2011 census, the population was 11.[1]

Etymology

The name Ūta comes from the word Lithuanian: ūta (a borrowing from Polish: huta or Belarusian: гута) and means 'a smelting place, a pitch making place'.[3]

References

"Population by locality" (XLS). Statistics Lithuania. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
Alytaus apskrities kaimo gyvenamosios vietovės ir jų gyventojai (PDF) (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Department of Statistics to the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. 2002. p. 54. ISBN 9986-589-83-5.
Šimkus, Šarūnas (2023). Varėnos krašto vietovardžių etimologinis žodynas (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Liutauras Leščinskas. p. 60. ISBN 978-609-447-388-3.

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[2011_census-1] "Population by locality" (XLS). Statistics Lithuania. Retrieved 10 September 2013.

[census-2] Alytaus apskrities kaimo gyvenamosios vietovės ir jų gyventojai (PDF) (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Department of Statistics to the Government of the Republic of Lithuania. 2002. p. 54. ISBN 9986-589-83-5.

[3] Šimkus, Šarūnas (2023). Varėnos krašto vietovardžių etimologinis žodynas (in Lithuanian). Vilnius: Liutauras Leščinskas. p. 60. ISBN 978-609-447-388-3.