Lithuania

Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Respublika), 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 (a Russian exclave) to the southwest. Lithuania has an estimated population of 2.9 million people as of 2015, and its capital and largest city is Vilnius. Lithuanians are a Baltic people. The official language, Lithuanian, along with Latvian, are the only two living languages in the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family.
== Links To Peel ==
Peel travelled to the country as part of his visit to Russia and the Baltic states in 1992 in conjunction with the BBC World Service and the British Council. He visited Vilnius via a double decker bus that travelled from St Petersburg into the Baltic states and described Lithuania's capital as a beautiful city on his 24 July 1992 show:
"I would recommend if you ever get the chance to visit Vilnius particularly, you should go before it's touristified you know, because at the moment it is a stunning beautiful place, a beautiful place I've ever been in my life"
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== See Also ==
* Countries
* Vytas Šerelis
== External Links ==
* Wikipedia
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