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1. Lithuania is one of the countries bordering the Baltic Sea, bordering with Russia, Polish, Belarus and Latvia.
2. The area of Lithuania is 65 300 km sq.
3. The capital is Vilnius with about 533 900 inhabitants (2008)
4. Climate: sea-continental, average winter temperature - 4.9 degrees C in summer + 17 ° C
5. The largest cities are Kaunas (368.900), Klaipėda (201.800), Siauliai (133.900), Panavežys (119.000), Alytus (71.600), Marijampole (52.100 )
6. The official language is Lithuanian, which belongs to the Indo-European language family and is one of the most archaic in the world.
7. The territory of Lithuania is divided into 10 districts, 60 municipalities.
8. Lithuanian Litas (LTL) 1 Lt = 100 cents.
9. deputowanych. Legislative body is the parliament (Sejm), numbering 141 deputies.
10. The head of state is the president elected by direct suffrage. The president appoints the Head of Government - Prime Minister, whose candidacy then approved by parliament. Lithuania is currently President Dalia Grybauskaite, and Prime Minister Andrus Kubilis. The government includes 13 ministers. Currently Lithuania is President Dalia Grybauskaite, and Prime Minister Andrus Kubilis.
11. In Lithuania there are 15 political parties.
12. The first mention of Lithuania from 14 February 1009, but the Lithuanian state was established only in the century XIII . In the fourteenth century, the then Grand Duchy of Lithuania was the largest country in Europe in 1386 entered into relationship with the Polish, which in 1569 turned into a sustainable real union ( Union of Lublin ). In the years 1795-1918, Lithuania was under Russian sovereignty. In 1918 he founded the independent Republic of Lithuania , which in 1940 was forcibly transformed into a republic of the Soviet Union . March 11, 1990 Lithuania announced its declaration of independence
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