Lithuania

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Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in northern Europe. It shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of the Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest, and is situated along the south-eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Its capital and largest city is Vilnius.

Lithuania has been a member state of the European Union since May 1 2004 and a member of NATO since March 29 2004.