Lithuania Country Info - Europe

Description and Basic Information

Lithuania with its capital Vilnius is located in Europe (Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea). It covers some 65,201 square kilometres (slightly larger than West Virginia) with 3,565,000 citizens. Lithuanian, Russian and Polish are the languages used by people in Lithuania (consider regional differences). Poland, Belarus, Russia and Latvia are bordering countries.

Lithuania is a Baltic country in Northern Europe. It has a Baltic Sea coastline in the west and surrounded by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east, Poland to the southwest, and Russia (Kaliningrad) to the west. Lithuania, first formed in the middle of the 13th century, was a huge feudal country stretching from the Baltic to the Black sea in the middle ages and in 1569 entered an union with Poland to form a commonwealth. The most southern of the Baltic countries, Lithuania's historic heritage sets it quite apart from the other two. Visiting this small but colourful country today, few travelers might guess that this was once the largest nation in Europe. A few monuments remind of those golden ages, when the Grand Duchy of Lithuania stretched out far into modern day Russia, Poland and Moldova, but even fewer are still inside the Lithuanian borders.

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About Lithuania

The terrain offers lowland, many scattered small lakes, fertile soil. The average density of population is about 54 per km². The climate in Lithuania can be described as transitional, between maritime and continental with wet, moderate winters and summers. Possible natural disasters include NA.

To reach someone in Lithuania dial +370 prior to a number. There are 747,400 installed telephones. And there are 4,962,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 900, 1800 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".lt". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 220V - 50Hz. The following list are the 10 regions/states in Lithuania we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Lithuanian population shrinked at a rate of -0.28% (or by 9,785 citizens). With 39,885 deaths and 32,652 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at -0.2%. -2,553 persons more in total emmigrated from the country than immigrated.

An overview of age distribution in Lithuania: Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.