Lithuania

Location	Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, between Latvia and Russia
Geographic coordinates	56 00 N, 24 00 E
Map references	Europe
Area	total: 65,300 sq km land: 62,680 sq km water: 2,620 sq km
Area - comparative	slightly larger than West Virginia
Land boundaries	total: 1,574 km border countries: Belarus 680 km, Latvia 576 km, Poland 91 km, Russia (Kaliningrad) 227 km
Coastline	90 km
Maritime claims	territorial sea: 12 nm
Climate	transitional, between maritime and continental; wet, moderate winters and summers
Terrain	lowland, many scattered small lakes, fertile soil
Elevation extremes	lowest point: Baltic Sea 0 m highest point: Aukstojas 294 m
Natural resources	peat, arable land, amber
Land use	arable land: 44.81% permanent crops: 0.9% other: 54.29% (2005)
Irrigated land	13.4 sq km (2003)
Total renewable water resources	24.5 cu km (2005)
Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural)	total: 3.33 cu km/yr (78%/15%/7%) per capita: 971 cu m/yr (2003)
Natural hazards	NA
Environment - current issues	contamination of soil and groundwater with petroleum products and chemicals at military bases
Environment - international agreements	party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note	fertile central plains are separated by hilly uplands that are ancient glacial deposits