Lithuania

Lithuania (ə ə; Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania (links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe.Various sources classify Lithuania differently for statistical and other purposes. For example, United Nations, and Eurovoc, among others, classify it as northern Europe, the [[CIA World Factbook Usage varies greatly, and controversially, in press sources.}} It is one of the Baltic states, and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, to the southeast of Sweden and the east of Denmark, with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia to the southwest. Lithuania covers an area of abbr= on, with a population of 2.7 million. Its capital and largest city is Vilnius; other major cities are Kaunas and Klaipėda. Lithuanians belong to the ethno-linguistic group of the Balts, and speak Lithuanian; one of only two living Baltic languages.