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	Vilnius 54°41′N 25°19′E / 54.683°N 25.317°E / 54.683; 25.317
Lairgest ceety	capital
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(s)	Lithuanie
Govrenment	Pairlamentary republic
• Preses	Gitanas Nausėda
• Prime Meenister	Ingrida Šimonytė
• Seimas Speaker	Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen
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 (25,200 sq mi) (123rd)
• Water (%)	1.35
Population
• 2014 estimate	2,944,459 (138t)
• 2011 census	3,043,429
• Density	50.3/km2 (130.3/sq mi) (120t)
GDP (PPP)	2014 estimate
• Total	$70.840 billion
• Per capita	$23,850
GDP (nominal)	2014 estimate
• Tot	$49.308 billion
• Per capita	$16,600
Gini (2012)	32.0 medium
HDI (2013)	0.818 verra heich · 41st
Currency	Euro € (EUR)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Date format	yyyy-mm-dd (CE)
Drivin side	richt
Cawin code	+370
ISO 3166 code	LT
Internet TLD	.lta
An aa .eu, shared wi other European Union member states.

24°E / 55°N 24°E / 55; 24

Ane o the three Baltic States at the Baltic Sea, it mairches wi Latvie tae the north, Belaroushie tae the sooth-east, Poland tae the sooth, an the Kaliningrad Oblast o Roushie tae the sooth-wast.

The maist muckle an populous o the Baltic states, Lithuanie haes aboot 100 km o saundy coastline, aboot 38 km o't faces the appen Baltic Sea. Lithuanie's major wairm-watter port o Klaipėda is 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.

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

• Dalia Grybauskaitė, European Commissioner 2004-2009, Preses o Lithuanie (2009-2019).
• Vytautas Landsbergis, owergang the Sangin Revolution o Lithuanie. Foonder o unthirldom organization Sąjūdis. Heid o the umwhile Heid-Cooncil - Reconstituent Seimas o Lithuanie (1989-1993); European Pairlament, 2004-2009.

Ceeties:

• Vilnius
• Kaunas
• Klaipėda
• Šiauliai
• Panevėžys

Touns:

• Palanga
• Druskininkai
• Alytus
• Marijampolė
• Ukmergė
• Tauragė
• Kretinga
• Trakai
• Birštonas
• Kelmė

• Arvydas Sabonis, Basketbaa, Žalgiris Kaunas (Sportsman, preses o Lithuane Basketbaa Federation)
• Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Basketbaa, Žalgiris Kaunas (Sportsman, coach)
• Žydrūnas Ilgauskas, Basketbaa, Cleveland, Unitit States (Sportsman, manager)
• Rūta Meilutytė, Souming, Olympic Gemmes gowd winner.
• Ričardas Berankis, Caitch player.