Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania ranks 51st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Colombia, Slovenia, and Latvia. Memorable people born in present day Lithuania include Władysław II Jagiełło, Józef Piłsudski, and Vytautas. Memorable people who died in Lithuania include Władysław IV Vasa, Vytautas, and Gediminas. Lithuania has been the birth place of many politicians and basketball players and the death place of many politicians and writers.

Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe, counted as one of the Baltic states. It lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, to the southeast of Sweden and the east of Denmark, with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest. Lithuania has an estimated population of 2.8 million people as of 2019. The capital and largest city is Vilnius; other major cities are Kaunas and Klaipėda. Lithuanians belong to the ethnic and linguistic group of Balts. The official language, Lithuanian, is one of only two living languages in the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family, the other being Latvian. Read more on Wikipedia