Lithuania

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The Republic o Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Respublika), for ordinar kent as Lithuania (Lietuva) juist, is a kintra in nor-aestren Europe.

Ane o the three Baltic States alang the Baltic Sea, it mairches ontae Latvia tae the north, Beloroushae tae the sooth-aest, Poland tae the sooth, an the Kaliningrad Oblast o Roushae tae the sooth-wast.

Lietuvos Respublika


(Flag)	(Coat o Airms)

Naitional ensenyie: Vienybė težydi (Lat Unity Floorish)

Offeicial leid

Lithuanian

Caipital an lairgest ceity

Vilnius

Preses

Valdas Adamkus

Prime Meinister

Algirdas Brazauskas

Area
- Tot
- % watter

Rankit 122t
65,200 km²
Nane tae spaek o

Indwallers
- Tot (Julie 2005 est.)
- Density

Rankit 125t
3,596,617
55.2/km²

GDP (PPP)
- Tot (Julie 2005 est.)

- GDP/heid

Rankit 74t (tot)
$49.1 billion
Rankit 49t (per capita)
$14,198

Unthirldom
- Declared
- Recogneised
- Tint
Unthirldom
- Declared
- Recogneised

Frae Imperial Roushae
16t Februar 1918
12t Julie 1920
1940
Frae the Soviet Union
11t Mairch 1990
6t September 1991

Siller

Litas (Lt) = 100 Centų (Ct)
Euro frae 2007
1€ = 3.45Lt

Time zone
- in summer

EET (UTC+2)
EEST (UTC+3)

Naitional sang

Tautiška giesmė

Internet TLD

.lt

Caain code

370

[edit] Geography

The lairgest an maist populous o the Baltic states, Lithuania haes aboot 100 km o saundie coastline, that aboot 38 km o faces the open Baltic Sea. Lithuania's major waurm-watter port o Klaipėda lees at the nairae mooth o Kuršių marios (Curonian Lagoon), a shauld lagoon raxin sooth tae Kaliningrad.

The chief river, the Nemunas, an a puckle o its tributaries cairies internaitional shippin vessels.

[edit] Membership o internaitional bodies

European Union, 2004
Cooncil o Europe
NATO,2003
Unitit Naitions

[edit] Weel-kent Lithuanians

Dalia Grybauskaitė, European Commissioner 2004-2009.
Vytautas Landsbergis, Sing Revoliution SAJUDIS, Vilnius, 1989-1993; European Pairlament, 2004-2009.