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Voyages intervilles Lituanie
Lithuania is one of the states in the East ringing the Baltic Sea. Lithuania is the Centre of Europe (18 km from Vilnius). To the north it borders on the Republic of Latvia (the lenght of the border 610 km) to the east and south it borders on Belorussia (724 km), to the southwest - on Poland (110 km) and on districal of Kaliningrad (303 km). The Territory of Lithuanian is 65200 square km. In 1992 the population was 3.76 million. Capital of Lithuania is Vilnius . Administratively, Lithuania is divided into 44 regions, and 52 districts;there are 92 cities (among them 11 under the republic’s jurisdiction) and 22 urban-type settlements. Reform of administrative-territorial division is in progress.
The length of sea coastline is 99km. The coast is covered by sand beaches and coastal dunes. At the south coast is the Courland lagoon. The Courland Spit separates it from the Baltic Sea.
Climate is transitional between maritime and continental. The average annual temperature is about 6 C. The average temperature of January is -4.8 C. (in Ignalina). The average temperature of July is 17.2 C, fluctuates from 16.5 C (in Klaipeda) to 17.6 C (in Kaunas). The mean annual precipitation varies from 540 mm (in the Middle Lowlands) to 930 mm (on the southwest slopes of the Zemaitija Uplands). The greatest amount of it falls in August, at the seaside - in October. The vegetation season in Lithuania lasts from 169 to 202 days (the shortest - is in Eastern Lithuania, the longest - at the seaside).
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