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Geography
Lithuania is situated on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea and
covers 65,3 thous. sq. km. It has 99 km of coastline. The capital
is Vilnius.
The country is bordered to the North by Latvia (610 km frontier),
to the East and south by Belarus (724 km) and Poland (110 km), and
to the Southwest by the Kaliningrad Region of the Russian Federation
(303 km). Including the coastline, its borders total 1,846 km.
Climate
The climate is maritime or continental. The annual temperature is
+6.1°C,and the average temperature in January being -4.9° C and
in July +17.0 °C.
The mean annual precipitation is 661 mm.
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