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Lithuania

Lithuania is one of the three of northeast Europe. It's a low-lying, mostly agricultural country bordered by Latvia to the north and east, Belarus to the south, Poland to the southwest, Kaliningrad exclave of Russia to the west, and the Baltic Sea to the northwest.
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Top destinations include Vilnius and Kaunas.

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is the capital and largest city of Lithuania. It has a beautiful baroque Old Town, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and excellent tourist facilities in all price ranges.

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in the region of is the second-largest city in Lithuania, with a population of 304,000 in 2024. The main reason to visit is its Old Town, connected to the 19th century New Town along Laisvės alėja.

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is a city in , the narrow northwest coastal region of Lithuania. It's the country's third-largest city. The city has historic sights but isn't pretty-pretty like Vilnius Old Town, and draws mostly local tourism.

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Explore places such as Dzūkija and Samogitia.

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or Dainava is one of the five "cultural regions" of Lithuania, in the south of the country bordering Belarus. This region is ill-defined, so on these pages it's taken as Vilnius city and county plus Alytus county.

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is a region in the northwest of Lithuania. It's bordered to the west by the Baltic coast and Lithuania Minor, to the south by Sūduva, to the east by Aukštaitija and to the north by Latvia.

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is the name of one of five ethnographic regions of Lithuania. The name comes from the fact that the lands are in the upper basin of the Nemunas, as opposed to the that begin from westward.

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, Sudovia or Suvalkija is a region of southwest Lithuania. It's ill-defined but is here taken to mean the counties of Kaunas and of Marijampolė, which are no longer administrative units.

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is a region in the west of Lithuania, historically part of Prussia. It's bordered to the east by Samogitia, to the southeast by Sūduva, to the south by the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast, and to the west by the Baltic Sea.

Lithuania

Latitude of center
55.254° or 55° 15′ 14″ north
Longitude of center
23.972° or 23° 58′ 19″ east
Population
3,570,000
Area
65,200 km² (25,174 miles²)
Elevation
51 metres (167 feet)
Capital
Currency
Euro (EUR)
Phone code
.lt
Internet domain
370
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424297773
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
597427
Wiki­data ID
Q37
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Lithuania” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Литва”
  • Achinese: “Lithuania”
  • Adyghe: “Литуание”
  • Afrikaans: “Litaue”
  • Akan: “Lituwenia”
  • Albanian: “Lituani”
  • Albanian: “Lituania”
  • Amharic: “ሊቱዌኒያ”
  • Amharic: “ሊትዌኒያ”
  • Amis: “Lithuania”
  • Angika: “लिथुआनिया”
  • Arabic: “لتوانيا”
  • Arabic: “ليتوانيا”
  • Aragonese: “Lituania”
  • Armenian: “Լիտվա”
  • Armenian: “Լիտվայի Հանրապետություն”
  • Arpitan: “Lituania”
  • Arpitan: “Lituanie”
  • Assamese: “লিথুৱানিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Lituania”
  • Atayal: “Lithuania”
  • Avaric: “Литва”
  • Awadhi: “लिथुआनिया”
  • Aymara: “Lituaña”
  • Aymara: “Lituania”
  • Azerbaijani: “Litva”
  • Balinese: “Lithuania”
  • Bambara: “Lituyani”
  • Bashkir: “Литва”
  • Basque: “Lituania”
  • Bavarian: “Litaun”
  • Belarusian: “Летува”
  • Belarusian: “Летувіская Рэспубліка”
  • Belarusian: “Літва”
  • Belarusian: “Рэспубліка Летува”
  • Bengali: “লিটুভা”
  • Bengali: “লিটুভোস রিপাবলিকা”
  • Bengali: “লিত্ভা”
  • Bengali: “লিথুনিয়া”
  • Bengali: “লিথুয়ানিয়া প্রজাতন্ত্র”
  • Bengali: “লিথুয়ানিয়া”
  • Bengali: “লিথুয়েনিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Litowen”
  • Bhojpuri: “लिथुआनिया”
  • Bhojpuri: “लिथुवानिया”
  • Bhojpuri: “लिथ्वानिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “লিথুয়ানিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Lithuania”
  • Bislama: “Lituania”
  • Bislama: “Litwania”
  • Bislama: “Ripablik blong Litwania”
  • Bosnian: “Litvanija”
  • Breton: “Lituania”
  • Bulgarian: “Литва”
  • Bulgarian: “Република Литва”
  • Burmese: “လစ်သူယေးနီးယား”
  • Burmese: “လစ်သူယေးနီးယားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Burmese: “လစ်သူဝေးနီးယား”
  • Catalan: “Lituania”
  • Catalan: “Lituània”
  • Catalan: “República de Lituània”
  • Cebuano: “Lituanya”
  • Cebuano: “Litwanya”
  • Central Bikol: “Lituanya”
  • Central Kurdish: “لیتڤانیا”
  • Central Kurdish: “لیتوانیا”
  • Chamorro: “Lituania”
  • Chavacano: “Lituania”
  • Chechen: “Литва”
  • Cherokee: “ᎵᏗᏪᏂᎠ”
  • Cheyenne: “Lithuania”
  • Chinese: “Lietuva”
  • Chinese: “Lìtáowǎn”
  • Chinese: “立陶宛”
  • Chinese: “立陶宛共和国”
  • Chinese: “立陶宛共和國”
  • Church Slavic: “Литъва”
  • Chuvash: “Литва”
  • Cornish: “Lithouani”
  • Cornish: “Lithuani”
  • Corsican: “Lituania”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Litvaniya”
  • Croatian: “Litva”
  • Croatian: “Litvanija”
  • Croatian: “Republika Litva”
  • Czech: “Litva”
  • Dagbani: “Lithuania”
  • Danish: “Litauen”
  • Dhivehi: “ލިތުއޭނިއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Litwanya”
  • Dotyali: “लिथुआनिया”
  • Dutch: “Litouwen”
  • Dutch: “LT”
  • Dutch: “LTU”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Litouwen”
  • Dzongkha: “ལི་ཐུ་ནི་ཡ།”
  • Dzongkha: “ལི་ཐུ་ཝེ་ནི་ཡ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Литва”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليتوانيا”
  • Erzya: “Литва Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Litovio”
  • Esperanto: “Litovujo”
  • Esperanto: “LT”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Litovio”
  • Estonian: “Leedu Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Leedu”
  • Ewe: “Lithuania”
  • Ewe: “Lituania nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Lituaña”
  • Extremaduran: “Lituánia”
  • Faroese: “Litava”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Lithuania”
  • Fijian: “Lituani”
  • Fijian: “Lituania”
  • Finnish: “Liettua”
  • Finnish: “Lietuva”
  • French: “la République de Lituanie”
  • French: “Lithuanie”
  • French: “Lituanie”
  • French: “LT”
  • French: “République de Lituanie”
  • Friulian: “Lituanie”
  • Fulah: “Lituaanii”
  • Fulah: “Lituwaniya”
  • Gagauz: “Litvaniya”
  • Galician: “Lituania”
  • Ganda: “Lisuwenya”
  • Ganda: “Lithueenia”
  • Georgian: “ლიეტუვა”
  • Georgian: “ლიტვა”
  • German: “Litauen”
  • German: “LT”
  • German: “LTU”
  • German: “Republik Litauen”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Lituania”
  • Gilaki: “ليتواني”
  • Goan Konkani: “Lithuania”
  • Goan Konkani: “लिथुआनिया”
  • Gothic: “𐌻𐌹𐍄𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌾𐌰”
  • Greek: “Λιθουανία”
  • Guarani: “Lituaña”
  • Guarani: “Lituáña”
  • Guarani: “Lituania”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Litchwani”
  • Gujarati: “લિથુઆનિયા”
  • Haitian: “Lityani”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Lithuania”
  • Hausa: “Lithuania”
  • Hausa: “Lituweniya”
  • Hawaiian: “Lituania”
  • Hebrew: “ליטא”
  • Hindi: “लिथुआनिया”
  • Hungarian: “Litvánia”
  • Iban: “Lithuania”
  • Icelandic: “Litáen”
  • Icelandic: “Litháen”
  • Icelandic: “Lithaugaland”
  • Icelandic: “Lýðveldið Litáen”
  • Ido: “Lituania”
  • Igbo: “Lithuania”
  • Igbo: “Lithunia”
  • Iloko: “Lituania”
  • Inari Sami: “Liettua täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Liettua”
  • Indonesian: “Lithuania”
  • Indonesian: “Lituania”
  • Indonesian: “Republik Lituania”
  • Interlingua: “Lituania”
  • Interlingue: “Lituania”
  • Inuktitut: “ᓕᐋᑐᕙ”
  • Irish: “an Liotuáin”
  • Irish: “An Liotuáin”
  • Italian: “Lituania”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Lituyenia”
  • Japanese: “リトアニア”
  • Japanese: “リトアニア共和国”
  • Javanese: “Litowen”
  • Javanese: “Lituania”
  • Kabardian: “Литоу”
  • Kabiyè: “Lituyanii”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Lituánia”
  • Kabyle: “Litwanya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Litaueni”
  • Kalmyk: “Литдин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿಥುವೇನಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿಥುವೇನಿಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Litva”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Литва”
  • Kashmiri: “لِتھُوانِیا”
  • Kashubian: “Lëtewskô”
  • Kashubian: “Lëtwa”
  • Kazakh: “Литва”
  • Khmer: “លីទុយអានី”
  • Khmer: “សាធារណរដ្ឋលីទុយអានី”
  • Kikuyu: “Lithuania”
  • Kikuyu: “Litwania”
  • Kikuyu: “Rithuĩnia”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Lituwaniya”
  • Kirghiz: “Литва”
  • Kölsch: “Littaue”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Летува”
  • Komi: “Литва”
  • Kongo: “Lietuva”
  • Korean: “리투아니아”
  • Kotava: “Lietuva”
  • Kurdish: “Lîtvanya”
  • Kurdish: “لیتوانایا”
  • Ladin: “Lituania”
  • Ladino: “Lituania”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດລິດຕົວນີ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດລີຕົວນີ”
  • Lao: “ລິທົວເນຍ”
  • Latgalian: “Lītova”
  • Latin: “Lituania”
  • Latvian: “Lietuva”
  • Lezghian: “Литва”
  • Ligurian: “Litoània”
  • Ligurian: “Lituania”
  • Ligurian: “Lituannia”
  • Limburgan: “Litouwe”
  • Lingala: “Litwani”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Lietuva”
  • Literary Chinese: “立陶宛”
  • Lithuanian: “Lietuva”
  • Lithuanian: “Lietuvos Respublika”
  • Lithuanian: “LR”
  • Liv: “Leišmō”
  • Livvi: “Litvu”
  • Lojban: “lietuvas”
  • Lombard: “Lituania”
  • Lombard: “Lituània”
  • Low German: “Litauen”
  • Low German: “Litouwen”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Litawska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Litwani”
  • Luxembourgish: “Litauen”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Litva”
  • Macedonian: “Литванија”
  • Madurese: “Lithuania”
  • Malagasy: “Litoania”
  • Malay: “Lithuania”
  • Malayalam: “ലിത്വാനിയ”
  • Maltese: “il-Litwanja”
  • Maltese: “Litwanja”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Litwanja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯂꯤꯊ꯭ꯋꯥꯅꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “y Litaan”
  • Manx: “Yn Litaan”
  • Maori: “Litovia”
  • Maori: “Rituānia”
  • Marathi: “लिथुआनिया”
  • Marathi: “लिथुएनिया”
  • Mazanderani: “لیتوانی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Lithuania”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lietuva”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lithuania”
  • Minangkabau: “Lituania”
  • Mingrelian: “LT”
  • Mingrelian: “LTU”
  • Mingrelian: “ლიეტუვა”
  • Mingrelian: “ლიეტუვაშ რესპუბლიკა”
  • Mirandese: “Lhituánia”
  • Moksha: “Литва”
  • Mongolian: “Литва”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ليتوانيا”
  • Narom: “Lithuanie”
  • Nauru: “Lithuania”
  • Nauru: “Rituainiya”
  • Navajo: “Łitʼoowę́ęya”
  • Navajo: “Tséjééʼ Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Lituania”
  • Nepali: “लिथुआनिया”
  • Nepali: “लिथुएनिया”
  • Newari: “लिथुआनिया”
  • North Ndebele: “Lithuania”
  • Northern Frisian: “Litauen”
  • Northern Sami: “Lietuva dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Lietuva”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Litauen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Litauen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Litauen”
  • Norwegian: “Litauen”
  • Novial: “Lituania”
  • Nyanja: “Lithuania”
  • Obolo: “Lituania”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lituània”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܠܬܘܢܝܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lithuania”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Liþþuania”
  • Oriya: “ଲିଥୁଆନିଆ”
  • Oromo: “Lituheeniyaa”
  • Ossetian: “Литва”
  • Pali: “लिथ्वानिया”
  • Pampanga: “Lithuania”
  • Pampanga: “Lituania”
  • Pangasinan: “Lituania”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਿਥੁਆਨੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Lituania”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Litaun”
  • Persian: “لیتوانی”
  • Persian: “لیتوانیا”
  • Picard: “Lituanie”
  • Piemontese: “Lituania”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Lithyuanya”
  • Polish: “Litwa”
  • Polish: “Republika Litewska”
  • Pontic: “Λιθουανία”
  • Portuguese: “Lituânia”
  • Portuguese: “República da Lituânia”
  • Prussian: “Laītawa”
  • Pushto: “ليتوانيا”
  • Pushto: “لیتوانیا”
  • Pushto: “لېتوانيا”
  • Quechua: “Lithuwanya”
  • Quechua: “Lituania”
  • Quechua: “Lituwa”
  • Quechua: “Lituwaniya”
  • Romanian: “Lituania”
  • Romanian: “Литуания”
  • Romansh: “Lituania”
  • Rundi: “Lituania”
  • Rundi: “Lituwaniya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Литва”
  • Russian: “Литва”
  • Russian: “Литовская Республика”
  • Rusyn: “Літва”
  • Sakizaya: “Lithuania”
  • Samoan: “Lufiana”
  • Samoan: “Malo o Lufiana”
  • Samogitian: “Lietova”
  • Sango: “Lituanïi”
  • Sanskrit: “लिथ्वानिया”
  • Sanskrit: “लेतुवा”
  • Santali: “ᱞᱤᱛᱷᱩᱣᱟᱱᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Saraiki: “لتھوینیا”
  • Sardinian: “Lituana”
  • Sardinian: “Lituània”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Litauen”
  • Scots: “Lithuania”
  • Scots: “Lithuanie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Liotuain”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Liotuàinia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lituania”
  • Serbian: “Litvanija”
  • Serbian: “Литванија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Litva”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Litvanija”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းလီႉတူႇဝေးၼီးယႃး”
  • Shona: “Lithuania”
  • Shona: “Ritwaniya”
  • Sicilian: “Lituania”
  • Silesian: “Litewskŏ Republika”
  • Silesian: “Litwa”
  • Sindhi: “لٿونيا”
  • Sindhi: “لٿوينيا”
  • Sinhala: “ලිතුවේනියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Liettua”
  • Slovak: “Litovská republika”
  • Slovak: “Litva”
  • Slovenian: “Litva”
  • Slovenian: “LT”
  • Slovenian: “LTU”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Litva”
  • Somali: “Lithuaniya”
  • Somali: “Lituweeniya”
  • Somali: “Litwaaniya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لیتوانی”
  • Southern Sami: “Litauia”
  • Southern Sotho: “Lituania”
  • Spanish: “Lituania”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Lituania”
  • Spanish: “República de Lituania”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Lituwaniyakondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵍⵉⵜⵡⴰⵏⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Lituania”
  • Swahili: “Lithuania”
  • Swahili: “Lituanya”
  • Swati: “Lithuwani”
  • Swedish: “Litauen”
  • Swiss German: “Litaue”
  • Tachelhit: “Litwaniya”
  • Tagalog: “Lithuania”
  • Tagalog: “Lituania”
  • Tagalog: “Litwanya”
  • Tahitian: “Rituania”
  • Tajik: “Литва”
  • Talysh: “Litvə”
  • Tamil: “இலித்துவேனியா”
  • Tamil: “லிதுவேனியா”
  • Tamil: “லித்துவானியா”
  • Tamil: “லித்துவேனியா”
  • Taroko: “Lithuania”
  • Tatar: “Litua”
  • Tatar: “Литва”
  • Telugu: “లిథువేనియా”
  • Tetum: “Lituánia”
  • Thai: “Lithuania”
  • Thai: “ประเทศลิทัวเนีย”
  • Thai: “ประเทศลิธัวเนีย”
  • Thai: “ลิทัวเนีย”
  • Thai: “ลิธัวเนีย”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐลิทัวเนีย”
  • Tibetan: “ལི་ཐུ་ཨེ་ནི་ཡ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ሊቱዌኒያ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Lituwenia”
  • Tok Pisin: “Litva”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Lituania”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Litauen”
  • Tsonga: “Lithuania”
  • Tumbuka: “Lithuania”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “ليتوانيا”
  • Turkish: “Litvanya Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Litvanya”
  • Turkmen: “Litwa”
  • Twi: “Lithuania”
  • Udmurt: “Литва”
  • Uighur: “لىتۋا”
  • Uighur: “لىتۋانىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Литва”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Litawska”
  • Urdu: “لتھووینیا”
  • Urdu: “لتھوینیا”
  • Urdu: “لیتھونیا”
  • Uzbek: “Litva”
  • Venda: “Lituania”
  • Venetian: “Lituània”
  • Venetian: “Łituania”
  • Venetian: “Łituània”
  • Veps: “Litvanma”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Lithuania”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Litva”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Litva”
  • Vietnamese: “Li-tu-a-ni-a (Lithuania)”
  • Vietnamese: “Li-tu-a-ni-a”
  • Vietnamese: “Lithuania”
  • Vietnamese: “Litva”
  • Vlaams: “Litouwn”
  • Vlaams: “Litown”
  • Vlax Romani: “Lituaniya”
  • Volapük: “Lietuvän”
  • Võro: “Leedu”
  • Walloon: “Litwaneye”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lituania”
  • Welsh: “Gweriniaeth Lithwania”
  • Welsh: “Lithuania”
  • Welsh: “Lithwania”
  • Welsh: “Llethaw”
  • Western Armenian: “Լիթուանիա”
  • Western Balochi: “لیتوانیا”
  • Western Frisian: “Litouwen”
  • Western Mari: “Литва”
  • Western Panjabi: “لیتھوینیا”
  • Wolof: “Litiyani”
  • Wolof: “Lituwaani”
  • Wu Chinese: “立陶宛”
  • Yakut: “Литва”
  • Yiddish: “ליטע”
  • Yoruba: “Lituania”
  • Yoruba: “Lituéníà”
  • Yue Chinese: “立陶宛”
  • Zeeuws: “Litouwen”
  • Zhuang: “Lithuania”
  • Zulu: “i-Lithuania”
  • Zulu: “ILithuwaniya”
  • “Leedu”
  • “Lietova”
  • “Lituàgna”
  • “Lituania”
  • “Lituanie”
  • “LT”
  • “LTU”
  • “ma Lijatuwa”
  • “Литуания”
  • “लिथुआनिया”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Lithuania”. Photo: Lestath, CC BY-SA 3.0.