Saldus municipality
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Saldus municipality is a municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 in Courland
Courland
Courland is one of the historical and cultural regions of Latvia. The regions of Semigallia and Selonia are sometimes considered as part of Courland.- Geography and climate :...

, Latvia
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

. The municipality was formed in 2009 by merging Saldus
Saldus
Saldus is a Latvian town located in Courland and is main town in Saldus District. As of 2005, the town has a population of 12,707.The year 1856 is considered as foundation of Saldus town when the board of Domens' decided to establish a trade center...

 town
Town
A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

, Ezere parish
Ezere parish
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, Jaunauce parish
Jaunauce parish
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, Jaunlutriņi parish
Jaunlutriņi parish
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, Kursīši parish
Kursīši parish
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, Lutriņi parish
Lutriņi parish
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, Nīgrande parish
Nīgrande parish
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, Novadnieki parish
Novadnieki parish
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, Pampāļi parish
Pampāļi parish
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, Ruba parish
Ruba parish
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, Saldus parish
Saldus parish
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, Šķēde parish
Šķēde parish
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, Vadakste parish
Vadakste parish
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, Zaņa parish
Zaņa parish
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, Zirņi parish
Zirņi parish
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 and Zvārde parish
Zvārde parish
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the administrative centre being Saldus.
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