Map of Lithuania

Lithuania is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 56.0° N, 24.0° E. It shares land borders with 4 countries — Belarus, Latvia, Poland and Russia — and also has its own coastline. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Lithuania is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Lithuania shares land frontiers with the following 4 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Lithuania covers about 65,300 km² (25,212 sq mi). That makes it the 121st-largest country in the world by area and the 23rd-largest in Europe, larger by area than 22 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 2,894,886, the 138th-largest in the world and the 29th-largest in Europe, accounting for about 0.4% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Lithuania has an average population density of about 44 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 29th by population and 23rd by area.

The seat of government is Vilnius, and the official currency is the Euro (EUR, €), and the main official language is Lithuanian. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+02:00.

Lithuania carries the ISO country codes LT and LTU, dials on the international calling code +370 and uses the .lt internet domain.

Lithuania shares its land borders with 4 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Russia (capital Moscow, about 146,028,325 people), Poland (capital Warsaw, about 37,392,000 people), Belarus (capital Minsk, about 9,109,280 people) and Latvia (capital Riga, about 1,829,000 people).

By area, Lithuania is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 56.0° N, 24.0° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Lithuania within Europe. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Vilnius. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Lithuania lies about 6,216 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Lithuania keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+02:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +02:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Euro (EUR, €).

The official language is Lithuanian, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +370 and websites commonly use the .lt internet domain.

In short, Lithuania is a coastal country in Europe, sharing land borders with 4 countries. Its capital is Vilnius. Lithuania has a population of about 2,894,886 and covers around 65,300 km² (25,212 sq mi), ranking it 138th in the world by population and 121st by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Lithuania.

The flag of Lithuania is composed of three equal horizontal bands of yellow, green and red.

The flag of Lithuania is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.