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 Location:
 Eastern Europe
 Bordering
 The Baltic Sea
 Latvia
 Belarus
 Poland
 Russia’s Kaliningrad enclave
 Lithuania is the biggest of the three Baltic
countries
 Area 65,300 square km, smaller than Georgia and Sri Lanka
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and a bit larger than Latvia or Croatia
 Population: 3,555,179 (July 2009 est.)
 Urbanization:urban population: 67% of
total population
 Ethnic groups: Lithuanian 83.4%, Polish
6.7%, Russian 6.3%, other 3.6% (2001
census)
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There are more than 300000
cows in the country,
so it is the second largest population 
 Religions: Roman Catholic 79%,
Russian Orthodox 4.1%, Protestant
(including Lutheran and Evangelical
Christian Baptist) 1.9%, other 5.5%,
none 9.5% (2001 census)
 Languages: Lithuanian (official) 82%,
Russian 8%, Polish 5.6%, other and
unspecified 4.4% (2001 census)
 Education expenditures: 5% of GDP
 Country comparison to the world: 72
 15 STATE UNIVERSITIES
7 PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES
15 COLLEGES
12 PRIVATE COLLEGES
200 000 STUDENTS
Vilnius University
Government type: parliamentary democracy
Independence: 11 March 1990 (declared); 6 September
1991 (recognized by the Soviet Union)
National holiday: Independence Day, 16 February (1918);
note - 16 February 1918 was the date Lithuania
declared its independence from Soviet Russia and
established its statehood; 11 March 1990 was the
date it declared its independence from the Soviet
Union
Constitution: adopted 25 October 1992; last amended 13
July 2004
Economy overview:
 GDP (purchasing power parity):
 $63.25 billion (2008 est.)
 country comparison to the world: 83
 GDP - per capita (PPP): $17,700 (2008 est.)
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 Internet users: 0.333 million (2007)
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 Executive branch:
 Chief of state: President
 Head of government: Prime Minister
 Cabinet: Council of Ministers - appointed by the
president on the nomination of the prime minister
 Elections:
 president elected by popular vote for a five-year
term
 prime minister appointed by the president on the
approval of the Parliament
 Legislative branch:
 Unicameral Parliament or Seimas
 141 seats
 71 members are elected by popular vote
 70 are elected by proportional representation
 Serves four-year terms
 Judicial branch:
 Constitutional Court
 Supreme Court
 Court of Appeal
 Judges for all courts appointed by the president
Lithuania is a member of the European Union and
NATO from 2004
It is also a member of the World Trade
Organization.
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LANGUAGE
The Lithuanian language is
the most archaic of all the
living Indo-European
languages, modern
reference language for
students of language
history all over the world.
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BALTIC SEA COAST
All Lithuanians love the Baltic
Sea coast. At least once a
year, everybody travels there
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A GREEN COUNTRY
In Lithuania you can benefit from a good environmental
quality of air, water and grounds.
The country has an
abundance of parks,
forests lakes and
nature reserves.
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M. K. Čiurlionis (1846–1914)
 Lithuanian painter and
composer
 Čiurlionis contributed to
symbolism and art nouveau
and was representative of
the fin de siècle epoch
Romain Gary (1914 – 1980)
 A Lithuanian–born French novelist
 The only person to win the Prix
Goncourt twice:
 1956 for Les racines du ciel
 1975 for La vie devant soi under
the pseudonym of Émile Ajar in 1975
Chaim Soutine (1893 – 1943)
 Expressionist painter, a forerunner
of Abstract Expressionism
 From 1910–1913 he studied in Vilnius at
the Vilna Academy of Fine Arts
 A Friend of Modigliani. Modigliani painted
Soutine's portrait several times
Modigliani
Portrait of Soutine, 1916
Chaim Soutine
Piece de boeuf,1923
A PASSION FOR SPORT
Basketball in Lithuania is like a second religion that
leaves no one indifferent. Lithuanian basketball players
are stars whose talent is admired by basketball fans all
over the world.
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FROM TRADITIONAL BREAD TO
INTERNATIONAL DELICACIES
The most popular of the Lithuanian staples are black
bread, cottage cheese, cold beet soup, cepelinai,
vėdarai, žagareliai (twig biscuits) and šakotis (tree cake)
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