Welcome to Panevezys!
Panevėžys is the fifth-biggest city in Lithuania with a population of 119,000, on the shore of the River Nevėžis not far from the Via Baltica highway between Vilnius and Riga.
Panevėžys (Lithuanian Latin: Panevezen, Polish: Poniewież, Yiddish: פּאָנעװעזש, Ponevezh) is the fifth largest city in Lithuania. As of 2011, it occupied 52 square kilometers (20 sq mi) with 113,653 inhabitants. As defined by Eurostat, the population of Panevėžys functional urban area, which stretches beyond the city limits, is estimated at 127,471 (as of 2017)The largest multifunctional arena in Panevėžys, Cido Arena, hosted the Eurobasket 2011 group matches.
The city is still widely known, if indirectly, in the Jewish world, for the eponymous Ponevezh Yeshiva.