<Li> Also . eu, shared with other European Union member states . </Li> <P> Coordinates: 55 ° N 24 ° E ﻿ / ﻿ 55 ° N 24 ° E ﻿ / 55; 24 </P> <P> Lithuania (/ ˌlɪθjuˈeɪniə / (listen); Lithuanian: Lietuva (ljɪɛtʊˈvɐ)), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of northern - eastern Europe . One of the three Baltic states, it is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, to the east of Sweden and Denmark . It is bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Kaliningrad Oblast (a Russian exclave) to the southwest . Lithuania has an estimated population of 2.8 million people as of 2017, and its capital and largest city is Vilnius . Lithuanians are a Baltic people . The official language, Lithuanian, along with Latvian, is one of only two living languages in the Baltic branch of the Indo - European language family . </P> <P> For centuries, the southeastern shores of the Baltic Sea were inhabited by various Baltic tribes . In the 1230s, the Lithuanian lands were united by Mindaugas, the King of Lithuania, and the first unified Lithuanian state, the Kingdom of Lithuania, was created on 6 July 1253 . During the 14th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was the largest country in Europe; present - day Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, and parts of Poland and Russia were the territories of the Grand Duchy . With the Lublin Union of 1569, Lithuania and Poland formed a voluntary two - state union, the Polish--Lithuanian Commonwealth . The Commonwealth lasted more than two centuries, until neighboring countries systematically dismantled it from 1772 to 1795, with the Russian Empire annexing most of Lithuania's territory . </P>

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