- Capital and largest City: Vilnius
- Lithuanians are one of the ethnic groups in the Baltic region. While Lithuania has a population of about 2 944 459 people,
- The native language is Lithuanian, one of two living Baltic languages. An interesting fact about the language is that as far back as the beginning of the 19thcentury people noticed that Lithuanian was very similar to Sanskrit. Linguists around the world are still fascinated that the Lithuanian language has retained features of this ancient language and it hasn’t really simplified much.