Lithuania
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Lithuania is a country in Europe on the Baltic Sea. Vilnius is the capital and largest city. The population is 3,596,617. Major languages spoken are 83.4% Lithuanian (official), 8% Russian, 5.6% Polish, 4.4% other and unspecified. The colors of their flag are yellow (at the top), green (in the middle), and red (at the bottom).
Lithuania began in the 7th – 9th centuries from Baltic nations group. The Baltics, the ancestors of Lithuanians and Latvians, came to area between Nemunas, Daugava rivers and the Baltic sea from a hypothetic original homeland of the Proto-Indo-Europeans. Many scientists think they came there sometime in the 3rd millennium BC.
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