title: Aizkraukle Municipality
text: # Aizkraukle Municipality
  
  Aizkraukle Municipality (Latvian: Aizkraukles novads) is a municipality in Vidzeme, Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2001 by merging town Aizkraukle and Aizkraukle Parish the administrative centre being Aizkraukle. The population in 2020 was 8,024.
  
  As a part of the 2021 Latvian administrative reform, the municipalities of Aizkraukle, Jaunjelgava, Koknese, Nereta, Pļaviņas and Skrīveri were merged into the new Aizkraukle Municipality. The new municipality encompasses nearly all of the area of the former Aizkraukle District, with the omission of Kurmene Parish and Valle Parish.
  
  ## Subdivisions
  
  * Aiviekste Parish
  * Aizkraukle Parish
  * Aizkraukle
  * Bebri Parish
  * Daudzese Parish
  * Irši Parish
  * Jaunjelgava Parish
  * Jaunjelgava
  * Klintaine Parish
  * Koknese Parish
  * Koknese
  * Mazzalve Parish
  * Nereta Parish
  * Pilskalne Parish
  * Pļaviņas
  * Sece Parish
  * Sērene Parish
  * Skrīveri Parish
  * Staburags Parish
  * Sunākste Parish
  * Vietalva Parish
  * Zalve Parish
  
  ## Twin towns – sister cities
  
  Aizkraukle is twinned with:
  
  * Biržai, Lithuania
  * Eppstein, Germany
  * Kiskunhalas, Hungary
  * Slavutych, Ukraine
  * Tczew, Poland
  * Thale, Germany
  
  ## Images
  
  * Borders from 2001 to 2021
  * Aizkraukle Municipality Council building
  * Landscape in Pilskalne Parish
  * Monument to Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš in Nereta Parish
  * Jaunjelgava Parish administration building
  * Pļaviņas Hydroelectric Power Station
  * Koknese Castle Ruins
  * Skrīveri Confectionary Plant, notable for its Gotiņa milk caramels
  * Potato Mutiny of 1841 memorial in Vecbebri
  * Monument to folklorist Gotthard Friedrich Stender at Sunākste Church
  