Lithuania limits the north with Latvia, the east and the south with Belarus, the southwest with Poland and exclave Russian of Kaliningrado and the west with the Baltic Sea. Lithuania erroneously sometimes is classified like part of East Europe, because sometimes the definition of East Europe usually is extended to include the old socialist states, getting to include the Southeast of the continent and the Balkan Mountains. But the certain thing is that Lithuania is More western than Eastern and so is thus, that the geographic center of the European continent is in Lithuania. In 1989 the National Institute of French Geography, emphasized that the true and unique geographic center of Europe is in the Purnuškės town (54°54' of North latitude and 25°19' of east longitude 54°54 ′ ″ N 25°19 ′ ″ and/erroneous Expression: unexpected operator/, erroneous Expression: unexpected operator/), to 26 km of Vilnius, capital of Lithuania and this has been shaped in Libro Guinness of the records. Nevertheless the geographic center of the European Union is in a locality of Hesse, Germany. [17] Lithuania is a country that lacks great mountains, the maximum altitude is the mount Medvėgalis in little the well-known plateau of Samogitia in the West and center of the Lithuanian country, and the land is marked by small and Great Lakes, besides great wooded zones that cover near 30% of the Lithuanian territory. In the northeast is the Drūkšiai Lake, greatest and important of the country. The climate, as well as the relief is very similar to the one of the Scandinavian countries, reason why half of the year snows and great and beautiful forests, rivers and Lagos in the majority of the Lithuanian territory can be appreciated. Lithuania greatest and is populated with the three Baltic republics, and is a country with a small sandy coast of approximately 100 km, of which 40 are only open on the Baltic Sea. Klaipeda, is its main port, is located in the opening of the gulf of Kuršių. The natural reserve of the gulf of Kursiu, the National Park Kursiu Nerija, has been catalogued like Common Patrimony of the Humanity by UNESCO. Its capital is Vilnius and is considered by the Baltic like " The Rome of the Báltico". Between 1920-1939 Poland by illegal combat operation (military occupation without provocation of a territory that never was Polish) it occupied the region where was Vilnius (called by the Vilnius Poles). Through this Kaunas cause it happened to be the provisional capital of Lithuania. After the annexation to the USSR of this Vilnius territory it returned to be the capital of Lithuania

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