Lithuanie
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The Republic o Lithuanie (Lithuane: Lietuvos Respublika), kent braidly as juist Lithuanie, is a kintra in nor'-eastren Europe.
Republic o Lithuanie Lietuvos Respublika | |
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Location o Lithuanie (dark green) – on the European continent (green & dark grey) | |
Caipital | Vilnius 54°41′N 25°19′E |
Lairgest ceety | capital |
Offeecial leids | Lithuanie |
Ethnic groups (2011[1]) |
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Demonym(s) | Lithuanie |
Govrenment | Pairlamentary republic[2] |
• 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[3] (138t) |
• 2011 census | 3,043,429[4] |
• Density | 50.3/km2 (130.3/sq mi) (120t) |
GDP (PPP) | 2014 estimate |
• Total | $70.840 billion[5] |
• Per capita | $23,850[5] |
GDP (nominal) | 2014 estimate |
• Tot | $49.308 billion[5] |
• Per capita | $16,600[5] |
Gini (2012) | 32.0[6] medium |
HDI (2013) | 0.818[7] verra heich · 41st |
Currency | Euro € (EUR) |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
UTC+3 (EEST) | |
Date format | yyyy-mm-dd (CE) |
Drivin side | richt |
Cawin code | +370 |
ISO 3166 code | LT |
Internet TLD | .lta |
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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.
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