[3] Since that date, Utena County remains as the territorial and statistical unit.

Utena is one of the oldest settlements in Lithuania and is mentioned in historical chronicles as early as in 1261.

Main branches of economy are textile, food and timber processing, beer and wine production, power engineering.

Utena County is the second most popular tourism destination in Lithuania (after the seaside).

There are a number of unique places of interest that can be found only in Utena county, e.g., Asveja, the longest lake in Lithuania and Lake Tauragnas, the deepest one; Horse Museum, Lithuanian Museum of Ancient Beekeeping, Lithuanian Museum of Ethnocosmology, narrow gauge railway, a burial mound exposition, an exhibition of stone dust pictures.