LIETUVA

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• Location
• Eastern Europe
• Bordering
• The Baltic Sea
• Latvia
• Belarus
• Poland
• Russias Kaliningrad enclave
• Lithuania is the biggest of the three Baltic
  countries
• Area 65,300 square km, smaller than Georgia and
  Sri Lanka and a bit larger than Latvia or Croatia

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• Population 3,555,179 (July 2009 est.)
• Urbanizationurban population 67 of total
  population
• Ethnic groups Lithuanian 83.4, Polish 6.7,
  Russian 6.3, other 3.6 (2001 census)
• There are more than 300000
• cows in the country,
• so it is the second largest population ?

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• Religions Roman Catholic 79, Russian Orthodox
  4.1, Protestant (including Lutheran and
  Evangelical Christian Baptist) 1.9, other 5.5,
  none 9.5 (2001 census)
• Languages Lithuanian (official) 82, Russian 8,
  Polish 5.6, other and unspecified 4.4 (2001
  census)

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• Education expenditures 5 of GDP
• Country comparison to the world 72
• 15 STATE UNIVERSITIES7 PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES15
  COLLEGES12 PRIVATE COLLEGES200 000 STUDENTS
• Vilnius University

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• Government type parliamentary democracy
• Independence 11 March 1990 (declared) 6
  September 1991 (recognized by the Soviet Union)
• National holiday Independence Day, 16 February
  (1918) note - 16 February 1918 was the date
  Lithuania declared its independence from Soviet
  Russia and established its statehood 11 March
  1990 was the date it declared its independence
  from the Soviet Union
• Constitution adopted 25 October 1992 last
  amended 13 July 2004

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Economy overview

• GDP (purchasing power parity)
• 63.25 billion (2008 est.)
• country comparison to the world 83
• GDP - per capita (PPP) 17,700 (2008 est.)
• country comparison to the world 69
• Internet users 0.333 million (2007)
• country comparison to the world 75

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• Executive branch
• Chief of state President
• Head of government Prime Minister
• Cabinet Council of Ministers - appointed by the
  president on the nomination of the prime minister
• Elections
• president elected by popular vote for a five-year
  term
• prime minister appointed by the president on the
  approval of the Parliament

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• Legislative branch
• Unicameral Parliament or Seimas
• 141 seats
• 71 members are elected by popular vote
• 70 are elected by proportional representation
• Serves four-year terms
• Judicial branch
• Constitutional Court
• Supreme Court
• Court of Appeal
• Judges for all courts appointed by the president

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• Lithuania is a member of the European Union and
  NATO from 2004
• It is also a member of the World Trade
  Organization.

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LANGUAGE

• The Lithuanian language is the most archaic of
  all the living Indo-European languages, modern
  reference language for students of language
  history all over the world.

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BALTIC SEA COAST

• All Lithuanians love the Baltic Sea coast. At
  least once a year, everybody travels there

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A GREEN COUNTRY

• In Lithuania you can benefit from a good
  environmental quality of air, water and grounds.
• The country has an
• abundance of parks,
• forests lakes and
• nature reserves.

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M. K. Ciurlionis (18461914)

• Lithuanian painter and composer
• Ciurlionis contributed to symbolism and art
  nouveau and was representative of the fin de
  siècle epoch

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• Romain Gary (1914 1980)
• A Lithuanianborn French novelist
• The only person to win the Prix Goncourt twice
• 1956 for Les racines du ciel
• 1975 for La vie devant soi under
  the pseudonym of Émile Ajar in 1975

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• Chaim Soutine (1893 1943)
• Expressionist painter, a forerunner of Abstract
  Expressionism 
• From 19101913 he studied in Vilnius at the Vilna
  Academy of Fine Arts
• A Friend of Modigliani. Modigliani painted
  Soutine's portrait several times
• Modigliani Chaim
  Soutine
• Portrait of Soutine, 1916 Piece de
  boeuf,1923

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A PASSION FOR SPORT

• Basketball in Lithuania is like a second
  religion that leaves no one indifferent.
  Lithuanian basketball players are stars whose
  talent is admired by basketball fans all over the
  world.

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FROM TRADITIONAL BREAD TO INTERNATIONAL
DELICACIES

• The most popular of the Lithuanian staples are
  black bread, cottage cheese, cold beet soup,
  cepelinai, vedarai, agareliai (twig biscuits)
  and akotis (tree cake)