t.)

Television broadcast stations: NA
note: linked to Swiss networks

Televisions: 10,620 (1993 est.)

Defense
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Defense note: defense is the responsibility of Switzerland

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@Lithuania
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Map
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Location: 56 00 N, 24 00 E -- Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic
Sea, between Latvia and Russia

Flag
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Description: three equal horizontal bands of yellow (top), green,
and red

Geography
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Location: Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, between Latvia
and Russia

Geographic coordinates: 56 00 N, 24 00 E

Map references: Europe

Area:
total area: 65,200 sq km
land area: 65,200 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than West Virginia

Land boundaries:
total: 1,273 km
border countries: Belarus 502 km, Latvia 453 km, Poland 91 km,
Russia (Kaliningrad) 227 km

Coastline: 108 km

Maritime claims:
territorial sea: 12 nm

International disputes: dispute with Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast)
over the position of the Nemunas (Nemen) River border presently
located on the Lithuanian bank and not in midriver as by
international standards; disputes maritime border with Latvia
(primary concern is oil exploration rights); treaty with Belarus
defining the border awaits ratification

Climate: maritime; wet, moderate winters and summers

Terrain: lowland, many scattered small lakes, fertile soil
lowest point: Baltic Sea 0 m
highest point: Juozapine Kalnas 292 m

Natural resources: peat

Land use:
arable land: 49%
permanent crops: 0%
meadows and pastures: 22%
forest and woodland: 16%
other: 13%

Irrigated land: 430 sq km (1990)

Environment:
current issues: contamination of soil and groundwater with petroleum
products and chemicals at military bases
natural hazards: NA
international agreements: party to - Climate Change, Ship Pollution,
Wetlands; signed, but not ratified - Biodiversity, Ozone Layer
Protection

People
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Population: 3,646,041 (July 1996 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 22% (male 400,823; female 384,592)
15-64 years: 66% (male 1,162,626; female 1,244,103)
65 years and over: 12% (male 154,862; female 299,035) (July 1996
est.)

Population growth rate: -0.35% (1996 est.)

Birth rate: 12.93 births/1,000 population (1996 est.)

Death rate: 13.33 deaths/1,