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Kaniūkai is a village in the Šalčininkai district municipality of Lithuania. According to the 2001 census, its population was 167.
Before 1939 it was located in the Lida county of the Nowogródek Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic. It was briefly taken by the Soviet Union afterwards and was transferred to Lithuania according to the Soviet–Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Treaty. The village became part of the Jašiūnai Municipality, Eišiškės County. Later it was briefly part of the German Reichskommissariat Ostland before returning to the Lithuanian SSR (since 1990, Lithuania).
During World War II, it was the site of a massacre of Polish civilians by units of Soviet partisans and Jewish partisans (the Koniuchy massacre).
Kaniūkai is a village in , Varėna district municipality, in Alytus County, southeastern Lithuania. According to the 2001 census, the village had a population of 50 people. At the 2011 census, the population was 35.
Kaniūkai might refer to these villages in Lithuania:
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Kaniūkai, village in Šalčininkai district municipality, Vilnius County
- Kaniūkai massacre, a massacre of Polish civilians in 1944
- Kaniūkai (Jakėnai), village in Jakėnai eldership, Varėna district municipality, Alytus County
- Kaniūkai (Kaniava), village in Kaniava eldership, Varėna district municipality, Alytus County