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| Lietuvos Respublika Republic of Lithuania | |||||
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| Motto: Tautos jėga vienybėje! "The strength of the nation is unity!" | |||||
| Anthem: Tautiška giesmė | |||||
 Location of Lithuania (orange) – on the European continent (camel & white) | |||||
| Capital (and largest city) |  Vilnius | ||||
| Official languages | Lithuanian | ||||
| Government | Parliamentary democracy | ||||
| - President | Valdas Adamkus | ||||
| - Prime Minister | Gediminas Kirkilas | ||||
| Independence | from the Soviet Union | ||||
| - Declared | February 16, 1918 | ||||
| - Declared | 11 March 1990 | ||||
| - Recognized | 6 September 1991 | ||||
| Accession to EU | 1 May 2004 | ||||
| Area | |||||
| - Total | 65,303 km² (123rd) 25,212 sq mi | ||||
| - Water (%) | 1,35% | ||||
| Population | |||||
| - 2006 estimate | 3,483,972 (125th) | ||||
| - Density | 55 /km² (113th) 137 /sq mi | ||||
| GDP (PPP) | 2005 estimate | ||||
| - Total | $49.49 billion (75th) | ||||
| - Per capita | $14,158 (49th) | ||||
| HDI (2004) |  0.857 (high) (41st) | ||||
| Currency | Lithuanian litas (Lt) (LTL) | ||||
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | ||||
| - Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | ||||
| Internet TLD | .lt1 | ||||
| Calling code | +370 | ||||
| 1 Also .eu, shared with other European Union member states. | |||||
Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuva; official — Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in northern Europe. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of the Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest. Lithuania has been a member state of the European Union since 1 May 2004.
Europe between the climate change and the energy security. Out with the old, in with the new. In a bid to boost energy security, Lithuania wants two new nuclear reactors to be up and running within the next seven years.