Lithuania
Lithuania (officially Republic of Lithuania) is a country in Northern Europe, with its capital at Vilnius, and is home to roughly 2.9M people.
Lithuanian is the official language; the currency in circulation is Euro (€); people from here are called Lithuanian.
- »Lithuania was the first Soviet republic to declare independence, in 1990.
- »The Hill of Crosses holds well over a hundred thousand crosses, repeatedly bulldozed under Soviet rule and repeatedly rebuilt.
Lithuania touches four neighbours: Belarus to the southeast, Latvia to the north, Poland to the southwest and Russia to the northeast. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Vilnius was founded, by legend, after Grand Duke Gediminas dreamt of an iron wolf howling on a hill. Its baroque old town is among the largest surviving in eastern Europe.
64,532 km² (24,916 sq mi), 123rd largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Latvia.
Population 2,888,278, 137th of 198 on file. That averages 45 per km² (116 per sq mi).
Yellow for the sun and wheat, green for the forests, red for blood and courage. Adopted in 1918, banned under Soviet rule, restored in 1989.
Close enough to Venezuela's flag to cost you a guess.
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