Lithuania

About this destination

Lithuania (spelled as Litauen or Lithauen well into the 20th century; Lithuanian: Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in North-Eastern Europe, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east, Poland and Russia (Kaliningrad) to the south, and the Baltic Sea to the west. Of the three Baltic states, Lithuania is the largest and southernmost, and the only predominantly Roman Catholic state. Its history has only run parallel with that of the other two Baltic countries for a relatively short time. Unlike Latvia and Estonia, Lithuania was once a powerful country that even extended to the Black Sea.