Lithuania is located on the plains of Eastern Europe.Lithuania has 758 rivers, which are very long.Nemunas is the country’s largest river.Other major waterways are the Neris River (510 km), the Venta River (346 km), and the Sespe River (298 km).However, there are only 600 kilometers of navigable rivers in Lithuania.Lithuanians make up 83% of the population, making Lithuania the most homogeneous population of the Baltic states.According to the census, the population of Lithuania is 3,043,400 people.
The ethnic minorities living in this country are Poles, Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians.The largest ethnic minority in the Vilnius region is considered to be Poles.The second largest minority is Russians.They represent a significant minority in Vilnius and Klaipeda, and a majority in the city of Visaginas.There are 3,000 Roma people living in this country.Vilnius is the largest city in Lithuania.This city is considered a Gamma World City.
Kaunas is the second largest city in Lithuania.Klaipeda is the third largest city in Lithuania.The city plays an important role as an ice-free port at the mouth of the Akmena Dane River.The official language of Lithuania is Lithuanian.
More than 80% of the country’s 3.8 million people speak Lithuanian, which is a dialect to begin with.There are two dialects of Lithuanian:Aukštaičių (Aukštai, Lithuanian of the Good Land), Žemaičių/Žemaitiu (Samogit, Swamp Lithuanian).
Russian, Czech, Belarusian and Ukrainian are spoken in the larger cities.Yiddish is spoken by Lithuania’s remaining modest Jewish community.According to the Lithuanian census, 8% of the local population speaks Russian and 6% speaks Russian.80% of Lithuanians speak Russian and 38% speak English.
Most schools in Lithuania teach English as the primary dialect, but secondary school students may also consider German, French or Russian.
In areas where ethnic minorities live, there are schools where Russian or Rhineish are the main dialects.
Currently, 85.9% of Lithuanians are Roman Catholic.
