Lithuanie

Republic o Lithuanie Lietuvos Respublika
Banner Coat o airms
Anthem: Tautiška giesmė Naitional Hymn
Location o  Lithuanie  (dark green) – on the European continent  (green & dark grey) – in the European Union  (green)  —  [Legend]
Caipital an lairgest ceety		Vilnius 54°41′N 25°19′E
Offeecial leids		Lithuanie
Ethnic groups (2011)		84.1% Lithuanies 6.6% Poles 5.8% Roushies 1.2% Belaroushies 0.5% Ukrainians 0.1% Jews 0.1% Tatars 0.1% Germans 0.1% Romani 0.1% Latvians 1.3% ithers / unspecified
Demonym		Lithuanie
Government		Pairlamentary republic
-	Preses	Dalia Grybauskaitė
-	Prime Meenister	Algirdas Butkevičius
-	Seimas Speaker	Loreta Graužinienė
Legislatur		Seimas
Unthirldom frae Roushie / Germany (1918)
-	First mention o Lithuanie	9 March 1009
-	Coronation o Mindaugas	6 Julie 1253
-	Union wi Poland	2 February 1386
-	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth created	1 Julie 1569
-	Pairteetions o the Commonwealth	24 October 1795
-	Unthirldom declared	16 February 1918
-	1st Soviet occupation	15 Juin 1940
-	Nazi German occupation	22 Juin 1941
-	2nt Soviet occupation	Julie 1944
-	Unthirldom restored	11 Mairch 1990
Aurie
-	Total	65,300 km2 (123rd) 25,212 sq mi
-	Watter (%)	1.35
Population
-	2014 estimate	2,944,459 (138t)
-	2011 census	3,043,429
-	Densitie	50.3/km2 (120t) 141.2/sq mi
GDP (PPP)		2014 estimate
-	Total	$70.840 billion
-	Per capita	$23,850
GDP (nominal)		2014 estimate
-	Total	$49.308 billion
-	Per capita	$16,600
Gini (2012)		32.0 middlin
HDI (2013)		0.818 very heich · 41st
Currency		Euro € (EUR)
Time zone		EET (UTC+2)
-	Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)
Date format		yyyy-mm-dd (CE)
Drives on the		richt
Cawin code		+370
Patron saint		Saunt Casimir
Internet TLD		.lta
a.	An aa .eu, shared wi other European Union member states.

The Republic o Lithuanie (Lithuane: Lietuvos Respublika), for ordinar kent as Lithuanie juist, or Liefland, is a kintra in nor-aestren Europe.

Ane o the three Baltic States alang the Baltic Sea, it mairches ontae Latvie tae the north, Belaroushie tae the sooth-aest, Poland tae the sooth, an the Kaliningrad Oblast o Roushie tae the sooth-wast.

Geography

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

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

Membership o internaitional bodies

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

Weel-kent Lithuanes

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

Ceeties o Lithuanie

• Kaunas
• Klaipeda
• Siauliai
• Panevezys
• Palanga
• Nida
• Sventoji
• Druskininkai

Lithuane sportsmen

• Arvydas Sabonis, Basketbaa, Kaunas Zalgiris.
• Sarunas Jasikevicius, New Orleans, USA.
• Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Basketbaa, Cleveland USA

Fremmit airtins

• http://www.lietuva.lt