Lithuania

Lithuania

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

Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. It borders Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and the Russian semi-exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest, with a maritime border with Sweden to the west. Lithuania covers an area of 65,300 km2 (25,200 sq mi), with a population of 2.86 million. Its capital and largest city is Vilnius; other major cities are Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys. Lithuanians belong to the ethnolinguistic group of the Balts and speak Lithuanian, one of only a few living members of the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family, which is also the most widely spoken language of the branch. Read more on Wikipedia