Marijampolė County is the sixth biggest county in Lithuania (it is smaller than the counties of Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys) situated in the Southwest of Lithuania and has a favourable geographical position: it borders on Kaliningrad oblast (the Russian Federation) and the Republic of Poland. In Lithuania it neighbours with the counties of Kaunas, Alytus and Tauragė.