Travel & Accommodation Guide
Travel & accommodation guide Welcome to Lithuania! . Government type: Parliamentary Lithuania in brief democracy . President of the Republic: Ms. Dalia Grybauskaitė . Capital: Vilnius . Money: Eur . Independence Day: 16 February . Restoration of Independence: 11 March, 1990 . Location: Northern Europe, the largest of the three Baltic States, bordering the Baltic Sea, Poland, Belarus, Latvia, and Kaliningrad Oblast. Area: 65 300 km2. Distances: Šiauliai – Vilnius ~ 220km, Šiauliai –Riga ~ 130km, Šiauliai – Kaunas ~ 180km, Šiauliai – Klaipėda ~ 160Km. Climate: transitional between maritime and continental. Population: 3,043,429 (2011 census ) . Ethnic groups: Lithuanian – 84,1%; Polish – 6,6%; Russian – 5,8%; others – 3,5% . Religion: Roman Catholic – 79%; others – Orthodox (Old Believers), Evangelical Lutherans, Judaism, Old Baltic religion etc. Second most popular religion is Basketball . LT Membership in International Organisation: Republic of Lithuania is member of European Union (EU, 2004); Republic of Lithuania belongs to the NATO (2004), The Baltic Assemly (BA, 1994), Nordic- Baltic Eigth (NB8, 1992), Council of the Baltic Sea Strates (CBSS, 1992), United Nations (UN, 1991) etc. Language: Lithuanian is one of the world's oldest surviving languages, and is distantly related to Sanskrit, a religious and literary language in India. The words for god and day, for instance, are devas and dina in Sanskrit and dievas and diena in Lithuanian. Because it has changed less than other languages, Lithuanian is a linguistic link to the past and has a special place in the study of languages. It's one of two languages in the Baltic branch of Indo-European languages; the other is Latvian. Lithuanian is also related to now-extinct Old Prussian.
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