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Lithuania 🇱🇹

Lithuania is a country in Europe with a population of 2,750,055. Its capital is Vilnius. The official currency is EUR, and the main languages are Lithuanian.

Quick facts

  • Capital: Vilnius
  • Continent: Europe
  • Population: 2,750,055
  • Area: 65,300 km²
  • Density: 42.1 people per km²
  • Currency: EUR
  • Languages: Lithuanian
  • ISO code: LT

Where Lithuania sits

Lithuania 🇱🇹 is one of 46 countries in Europe, with its capital at Vilnius. It covers 65,300 square kilometres — 121st in the world — and is home to about 2,750,055 people, 139th globally.

The countries it shares a continent with include Russia, Germany, United Kingdom, France and Italy. If you are learning geography region by region — which works far better than alphabetically, because memory for places is spatial — those are the ones to learn alongside it.

How Lithuania compares

Raw figures are hard to hold on their own, so it helps to anchor them. In population, Lithuania sits closest to Armenia and Gambia. In land area, its nearest counterparts are Sri Lanka and Latvia.

At 42.1 people per square kilometre it is about 1.4 times below the world average of 59.4. It ranks higher by area than by population, so it is more spacious than its population alone suggests.

Lithuanian is listed as official in Lithuania alone. The EUR is shared with 25 other countries, including Andorra, Austria and Belgium, and 22 others.

To see Lithuania next to every other country, sort the country rankings by population, area or density; its currency and languages are listed alongside every other country's in world currencies and world languages.

How to remember Lithuania

Lithuania is the Lowest of the Baltic states, and Vilnius is Very close to the Belarus border, in the southeast. For the flag, read it from the top like a summer day: yellow sun, green forest, then a red sunset.

The flag of Lithuania: yellow, green and red

🇱🇹 The flag is three horizontal stripes of yellow, green and red. Yellow stands for golden fields and the sun, green for forests, freedom and hope, and red for courage and for those who defended the homeland.

Region and neighbours

Lithuania is the southernmost and largest of the three Baltic states in Northern Europe, on the Baltic Sea. It shares land borders with 4 countries: Latvia, Belarus, Poland and Russia. The Russian border is with Kaliningrad, a part of Russia separated from the rest of the country.

Three facts about Lithuania

  1. On 11 March 1990 Lithuania became the first Soviet republic to declare independence.
  2. Lithuanian keeps many very old features of the Indo-European languages, some otherwise found only in ancient languages such as Sanskrit and Ancient Greek.
  3. The Curonian Spit, a long sand-dune spit shared with Russia, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Sources: Wikipedia: Lithuania, Wikipedia: Flag of Lithuania, Wikipedia: Vilnius, CIA World Factbook.

Quiz yourself on Lithuania

Quizzes that include Lithuania

Three angles are worth covering for any country — where it is, what its flag looks like, and what its capital is. For Lithuania those are:

Doing all three for one continent before moving on is far more efficient than learning flags globally, then capitals globally, then the map.

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Frequently asked questions

What are the colours of the Lithuania flag?

The flag of Lithuania is three horizontal stripes of yellow, green and red. Yellow stands for golden fields and the sun, green for forests, freedom and hope, and red for courage and for those who defended the homeland.

Which countries border Lithuania?

Lithuania shares land borders with Latvia, Belarus, Poland and Russia. The Russian border is with Kaliningrad, a part of Russia separated from the rest of the country.

How can I remember the capital of Lithuania?

Lithuania is the Lowest of the Baltic states, and Vilnius is Very close to the Belarus border, in the southeast. For the flag, read it from the top like a summer day: yellow sun, green forest, then a red sunset.