Skuodas (pronunciationⓘ; Samogitian: Skouds) is a city located in Klaipėda County, in northwestern Lithuania, on the border with Latvia.

In 1572 Chełmno municipal rights were granted to Skuodas thanks to Jan Hieronimowicz Chodkiewicz who owned the city.

In the centre of this part there were built a new rectangular square, town hall, commercial buildings.

In 1614, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, one of the greatest military commanders in the history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, founded a new parish church with an adjacent school.

[4] Railway branch line Priekule-Klaipėda was built in 1915 and printing house was established in 1911.

In 1941, following the German invasion,[5] and the establishment of persecutions by Lithuanian collaborators, 500 Jews of the town were massacred.

There is also a museum, post office, centre of the culture, central hospital of municipality, foster home and public library in the city.