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Lithuania
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56° N / 24° ETHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Vilnius
- Population
- 2,888,278 2024
- Area
- 65,300 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- Lithuanian
- Currency
- euro (EUR)
- Geography
- Coastal country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Lithuania
Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuva) is one of the three Baltic states 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.
Landscape & landmarks
Vilnius Old Town is a 2-km strip from Aušros vartai ("Gates of Dawn") south, past the Town Hall and University quarter, to the castle, cathedral and main museum in the north.Read the see section ↗
Food & everyday culture
Cepelinai (Zeppelins) are potato dumplings with meat. Vėdarai is sausage, a potato-stuffed pig intestine. Skilandis is pig's stomach stuffed with ground meat and garlic, cold-smoked. Plokštainis, or kugelis, is an oven-baked serving of potatoes. Bulviniai blynai are grated potato pancakes with different sauces. Virtinukai are curd patties. Kastinys is soft sour cream butter. Šaltnosiukai are dumplings filled with lingon berry.Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-07. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Northern Europe
- Calling code
- +370
- Internet domain
- .lt
- Land border codes
- BLR, LVA, POL, RUS
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .lt. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.