Claim: Lithuanians are Mediterranean.
Evidence: Lithuanians '' ' -LRB- lietuviai , singular lietuvis/lietuv ė '' -RRB- are a Baltic ethnic group , native to Lithuania , where they number around 2,561,300 people.
Lithuania -LRB- UK and US : -LSB- lɪθuː ` eɪniə -RSB- , Lietuva -LSB- lʲɪɛtʊˈvɐ -RSB- -RRB- , officially the Republic of Lithuania -LRB- -LSB- Lietuvos Respublika , links = no -RSB- -RRB- , is a country in Northern Europe.
One of the three Baltic states , it is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea , to the east of Sweden and Denmark.
It is bordered by Latvia to the north , Belarus to the east and south , Poland to the south , and Kaliningrad Oblast -LRB- a Russian exclave -RRB- to the southwest.