Sasnava is a town in

Marijampolė County Marijampolė County () is one of the ten counties of Lithuania, counties in Lithuania. It is in the southwest of the country and roughly corresponds to the historical region of Suvalkija, Sudovia. Its Capital (political), capital and the largest ...

, in southwestern

Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...

. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 546. It is on the confluence of the River and its tributary, the

Šešupė The Šešupė (); ; ; ) is a 298 km long riverŠešupė
''VLE'' that flows through Poland (27 km), Lithuania (158 ...

. The name of the town comes from the river name Sasnà. The coat of arms of Sasnava was created according to this version. Another version claims that the Sasna stream comes from the Lithuanian word "susna" - which means decayed, withered.

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