title: Dobele Municipality
text: # Dobele Municipality
  
  Dobele Municipality (Latvian: Dobeles novads) is a municipality in the historical region of Zemgale, and the Zemgale Planning Region in Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2009 by merging Dobele town and the Annenieki, Auri, Bērze, Biksti, Dobele, Jaunbērze, Krimūna, Naudīte, Penkule and Zebrene parishes, the administrative centre being Dobele. As of 2020, the population was 19,286.
  
  On 1 July 2021, Dobele Municipality was enlarged when Auce Municipality and Tērvete Municipality were merged into it.
  
  ## Twin towns — sister cities
  
  Dobele is twinned with:
  
  * Akmenė, Lithuania
  * Ängelholm, Sweden
  * Joniškis, Lithuania
  * Konin, Poland
  * Schmölln, Germany
  
  ## Images
  
  * Boundaries of the municipality from 2009 to 2021
  