Everything you need to know about Lithuania
Explore Lithuania from Vilnius’s baroque streets and Kaunas’s modernist avenues to the Curonian dunes, northern pilgrimage sites and eastern lakes. Place sixteen cities and towns, discover sixteen sights, read ten illustrated topics and begin Lithuanian.
Read it, then make it stick
Baltic shores, glacial lakes and the Nemunas
Lithuania lies on the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Latvia borders it to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the southwest and Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave to the southwest. Vilnius stands inland near the Neris and Vilnia rivers. Kaunas lies at the meeting of the Neris and Nemunas, while Klaipėda is the main seaport.
Know the shape of the country
Place sixteen cities and towns in two learning groups: south and east, and north and west. These are not county boundaries. Curated settlement-centre pins sit on a generalised Natural Earth country outline.
Places worth visiting
Essential · Historic centre
Vilnius historic centre
The UNESCO-listed historic centre preserves architecture and streets shaped by many communities.
Explore sixteen heritage and landscape sights, from baroque Vilnius and modernist Kaunas to pilgrimage places, forest lakes and coastal dunes. Essential and Worth a detour are learning priorities. Landscape pins identify representative places rather than entrances or trailheads. Check official opening times and protected-area rules. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Lithuanian with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Keep going one country deeper
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