Lithuania Area Code

+370 is the dialing code for Lithuania.

Lithuania is the southernmost and largest of the three Baltic countries. Lithuania was the Baltic country that made the strongest opposition to the Soviet occupation power and was the first of all Soviet republics to declare independence in 1990. Nowadays, Lithuania is both EU and NATO member and one of the countries that strongly opposes what they perceive as an aggressive Russian policy.

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Geography and climate

Lithuania Area Code

As one of countries that start with L, Lithuania is the southernmost and largest of the three Baltic countries. It borders in the east to Belarus, in the south to Poland, in the southwest to the Russian area of ​​Kaliningrad and in the north to Latvia.

Lithuania is largely a lowland, but some landscapes, especially western Lithuanian Žemaitija, are beautifully hilly. There are many lakes in the country.

The almost 10 km long Baltic Sea coast to the west is a single uninterrupted sandy beach with, among other things, the Kuriska nose (Kuršių nerija), a narrow land tongue that separates the large shallow beach lake Kuriska lagoon (Kuršių marios) from the Baltic Sea.

Lithuania is approximately on Skåne’s latitude and has vegetation and wildlife with a central European feel.

Country Facts

Geography

Cultivated land 44.8 %
Land area 65300 km 2

Population and health

Population development -1.04 ‰
Urban population (Urbanization) 66.5 %
Death rate 14.27 per 1000 residents
Life expectancy: Women 80.46 years
Life expectancy: Men 69.24 years
Birth rate 10.1 births per 1000 residents
HDI index 0.839
Population 2884433
Infant mortality 3.84 deaths / 1000 births

Population Graph Source: Countryaah.com

Energy

Electricity, production 3927 million kWh
Energy consumption per resident 2468.8 kg. oil per resident
Natural gas, production million cubic meters
Crude oil, production million tons

Infrastructure

Internet users 70.3 per 100 residents
Mobile subscriptions 152 per 100 residents
Passenger cars 560 per 1000 residents

Business and economics

Unemployment 8.2% of the workforce
GDP 28400 per resident
Primary occupations 7.9 %
Secondary profession 19.6 %
Tertiary professions 72.5 %

The coastal climate prevails near the Baltic Sea, while the inland climate prevails further east with colder winters and warmer summers than in Sweden.

In the west, relatively much rainfall falls, especially just inside the coast in the summer. Along the Baltic Sea coast and on the Kuriska nose, the hours of sunshine are many, around 1,860 hours a year.

The climate has become warmer in recent decades. In July, the average temperature is almost 20 degrees, with peaks above 30 degrees. At the same time, the January chill inland can temporarily reach below 30 degrees.

FACTS – GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE

Surface

65,300 km2 (2018)

Time

Swedish + 1 hour

Adjacent country (s)

Latvia, Belarus, Poland, Russia (Kaliningrad region)

Capital with number of residents

Vilnius 540 600

Other major cities

Kaunas 358,000, Klaipéda 186,000, Šiauliai 128,400, Panevežys 111,000 (2012 estimate)

Highest mountain

Aukštojas (294 m asl)

Important rivers

Nemunas, Neris

Largest lake

Drukšiai

Average Precipitation / year

Vilnius 699 mm

Average / day

Vilnius -5 °C (Jan), 17 °C (July)

2018

November

Lithuania faces so-called Magnitskijlag

November 16

Adopts legislation which means that people in other countries accused of human rights violations and corruption can be subject to sanctions such as entry bans; The law is based on the so-called Magnitsky law that was passed in the United States in 2012 to enable action against Russian officials and oligarchs linked to the death of Sergei Magnitsky. Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky was imprisoned and murdered in 2009 after revealing fraud and corruption among high-ranking Russian civil servants. Canada and Estonia, for example, have also adopted versions of the law.

June

Lithuania violated the rights of terror suspects

June 1st

Lithuania is convicted by the European Court of Justice for violating the ban on torture. Together with Romania, Lithuania will pay over € 100,000 in damages to two prisoners in the US prison Guantánamo. The suspected terrorists were tortured in secret prisons run by the US intelligence agency CIA in, for example, Lithuania and Romania. The government of Lithuania, which claims that no secret prison has not existed on Lithuanian land, announces in August that it intends to appeal the verdict.

May

Lithuania joins the OECD

30 May

Lithuania is accepted as a member of the OECD. It is a few years later than Estonia and Latvia, which joined 2010 and 2016, respectively. As an OECD member, Lithuania hopes to attract more foreign investors to the country.

March

Russian diplomats are expelled

March 27th

Lithuania expels three Russian diplomats as a result of a nerve poisoning attack on a Russian former spy and his daughter in the UK in early March. It is taking place in concerted action with some 20 countries, mainly in the EU, in solidarity with the British government accusing Russia of being behind the attack. In total, over 100 Russian diplomats are expelled, 60 of whom are from the United States. Moscow denies all involvement in the poison attack and threatens with countermeasures.