Lithuania

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Lithuania

Flag of Lithuania
Capital	Vilnius
Inhabitants	3.339.550
Language(s)	Lithuanian

Lithuania is a European nation that regained its independence in 1991, after more than 50 years of forced annexation to the Soviet Union.

It had been independent from 1918 to 1940, when the Soviet Union occupied it and made it one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union.

Independent between the two World Wars, Lithuania was annexed by the USSR in 1940. On 11 March 1990, Lithuania became the first of the Soviet republics to declare its independence, but this proclamation was not generally recognized until September of 1991 (following the abortive coup in Moscow).

The last Russian troops withdrew in 1993. Lithuania subsequently has restructured its economy for eventual integration into Western European institutions.

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