Editing Geography of Lithuania (section)

== Geographical position ==

[[File:Lithuania Transportation.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Political map of Lithuania]][[File:LithuaniaPhysicalMap-Detailed.png|thumb|Physical map of Lithuania|300x300px]]Lithuania is situated on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea.<ref name=":0">{{citation-attribution|1={{cite encyclopedia|title=Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania: country studies|publisher=[[Federal Research Division]], [[Library of Congress]]|location=Washington, D.C.|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/96004057/|last1=Vardys|first1=V. Stanley|date=1996|editor-last=Iwaskiw|editor-first=Walter R.|edition=1st|pages=186–189|isbn=0-8444-0851-4|oclc=34245562|last2=Sloven|first2=William A.|entry=Lithuania: Physical Environment|access-date=2021-06-04|archive-date=2021-06-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624194827/https://www.loc.gov/item/96004057/|url-status=live}} }}</ref> Lithuania's boundaries have changed several times since 1918, but they have been stable since 1945.<ref name=":0" /> Currently, Lithuania covers an area of about {{convert|65,300|km2|mi2|abbr=on}}.<ref name=":0" /> It is larger than [[Belgium]], [[Denmark]], [[Latvia]], [[Estonia]], the [[Netherlands]], [[Slovakia]], [[Slovenia]] or [[Switzerland]].<ref name=":0" /> Lithuania borders Latvia on the north, Belarus on the east and south, and Poland and the Kaliningrad region of Russia on the southwest. The Eastern border together with Latvia in the South of its East comes along with the [[Kraków|Krokuva]]-[[Vilnius]]-[[Veliky Novgorod]] route with it chiefly within the territory. It is a country of gently rolling hills, many forests, rivers and streams, and lakes. Its principal natural resource is agricultural land.{{Citation needed|date=June 2021}}

Lithuania's northern neighbor is Latvia.<ref name=":0" /> The two countries share a border that extends 453 kilometres. Lithuania's eastern border with [[Belarus]] is longer, stretching 502 kilometers.<ref name=":0" /> The border with [[Poland]] on the south is relatively short, only 91 kilometers, but it is very busy because of international traffic.<ref name=":0" /> Lithuania also has a 227-kilometer border with Russia. Russian territory adjacent to Lithuania is [[Kaliningrad Oblast]], which is the northern part of the former German [[East Prussia]], including the city of [[Kaliningrad]].<ref name=":0" /> Finally, Lithuania has 108 kilometers of Baltic seashore with an ice-free harbor at Klaipėda.<ref name=":0" /> The Baltic coast offers sandy beaches and pine forests and attracts thousands of vacationers.<ref name=":0" />

According to some geographers, the [[geographical midpoint of Europe]] is just north of Lithuania's capital, [[Vilnius]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/centre-of-europe|title=Centre of Europe|work=Atlas Obscura|access-date=2022-09-25|archive-date=2022-09-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220925150944/https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/centre-of-europe|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Major coordinates ===

In terms of latitude or climate fifteen degrees (corresponding to the longitude or an [[Time Zone|hour]] fifteen degrees, except the polar climate sums being 7°30´ in latitude) Lithuania situates within the 52°30´-N - 67°30´-N latitude, that is northwards from [[Southend]] latitude, together with the [[North Sea]] major body, the Far North of [[Germany]], [[Siberia]]. It situates in the southern quarter of the climate fifteen degrees, stretching northwards from the southern mark of the climate fifteen degrees further than in nearly one tenth or the sum of <1°30´, that is kind of an edge zone of the climate fifteen degrees, being generally boggy in the western [[Belarus]], and on the 54°-N latitude the one tenth zone is marked by the greatest bog in Lithuania the [[Čepkeliai Marsh]].

With the [[Eastern Hemisphere]] core longitude on the 67°30´-E, the hour or its longitude fifteen degrees that set on Lithuania are 15°-E - 30°-E ([[Greenwich]], London) longitude, the core of which coming on the 22°30´-E longitude also marks the western one fourth, or the sum of 45° in the West of the Eastern Hemisphere if marking it with the [[Cape Verde]] archipelago and the [[Transantarctic Mountains]]. The 22°30´-E longitude comes in the West of Lithuania, with the river [[Jūra]] (pronounced as in ''Euro'' except the ending vowel) meaning ''sea'' locally flowing on the mark. [[Tilsit]] ([[Kaliningrad Oblast]]), [[Telšiai]] as the Greek ''thalassa'' situate in the western one fourth of the Eastern Hemisphere, although [[Talsi]] ([[Latvia]]) situate eastwards from the mark. The rivers [[Šešupė]], [[Šešuvis]], [[Šušvė]] plus Šyša situate in the sum of approximately 2°30´ longitude or one sixth of an hour fifteen degrees (''šeši'' - ''six'' in Lithuanian), in the both sides of the 22°30´-E mark.