The Hill of Crosses near ล iauliai carries more than 100,000 crosses, repeatedly bulldozed and rebuilt.
Lithuania
Republic of Lithuania ยท Lietuva
Europe
ยท Northern Europe
- ISO codes
- LT ยท LTU
- Density
- 43 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Lithuanian
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Dial code
- +370
- Internet domain
- .lt
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 55.1040ยฐ N, 24.0900ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Lithuanian
- UN region
- Northern Europe
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $54.63B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 4
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By the numbers
How Lithuania stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Ten facts about Lithuania
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 2,786,844 people, the 142nd largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 2,755 of everyone alive.
Covers 65,300 kmยฒ, making it the 124th largest country here - about 7.1 times the size of Cyprus.
Population density is about 43 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Vilnius, at 54.68ยฐ N, 25.32ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 542,366.
Shares land borders with 4 countries: Belarus, Latvia, Poland and Russia.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Europe/Vilnius.
The currency is the Euro (EUR, symbol โฌ).
The official language is Lithuanian.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
Land neighbours
4 countries share a border with Lithuania.