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Geographic position:

Most Northerly point
Lat N. 56^o 27 '

Most Southerly point
Lat N 53^o 54 '

Most Westerly point
Long E. 20^o 56 '

Most Easterly point
Long E. 26^o 51 '

Frontiers, km

Total
without territorial sea — 1732

with territorial sea — 1761

Land¹
including Kursiu Lagoon — 1642

with Russian Federation (Kaliningrad reg.) — 273

of which Kursiu Lagoon — 18

with the Republic of Belarus — 677

with the Republic of Latvia — 576

with the Republic of Poland — 104

Coast line
Length of the Baltic Sea shore — 90

Length of the Lithuanian-Latvian territorial sea limit — 22²

Length of the Lithuanian-Russian territorial sea limit — 22²

Length of the Lithuanian territorial sea outer limit — 75

¹Information on land border isn’t final because the demarcation of the State Border isn’t completed yet.
² 22 km=12 nautical miles

Absolute altitude of highest hills, m:
Juozapine	— 293.6
Kruopine	— 293.4
Nevaisiai	— 288.9
Budakalnis (Azusilis)	— 284.8
Pavistytis	— 282.4
Gedanonys	— 257.4
Ziezdriai (Piliakalnis)	— 247.0
Medvegalis	— 234.6
Satrija	— 228.7
Girgzdute	— 228.0

Major rivers (in kilometres)
	Total length	Length in the country
Nemunas	937	475
Neris	510	234
Venta	346	161
Sesupe	298	209
Musa (Lielupe)	284	146
Sventoji	246	246
Nevezis	209	209
Merkys	203	190
Minija	202	202

Major lakes ¹
	Area, ha	Depth, m
Druksiai	4479.0	33.3
Dysnai	2439.4	6.0
Dusia	2334.2	31.7
Sartai	1331.6	22.0
Luodis	1320.0	16.5
Metelys	1292.0	15.0
Platelių (lake)	1209.6	46.6
Avilys	1209.0	13.5
Rekyvos(lake)	1150.9	7.0
Alausas	1054.0	42.0

There are 2830 lakes larger than 0.5 ha in Lithuania. Total area - 880 km².
¹Lake Vistytis could be the 4th but very small part of it is situated on the territory of the Republic of Lithuania.

Information from: Department of Statistics to the Government of the Republic of Lithuania

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