Geography: Lithuania is situated on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. According to the French National Institute of Geography, the geographical centre of Europe is situated just 24 km to the north west of Vilnius.
Lithuanias terrain is an alternation of plains, low hills and numerous lakes. This land is famous for its mound: there are about 900 of them.
CAPITAL Vilnius has been establishing at the confluence of the Neris and Vilnia Rivers, in the settlement inhabited by Balts from old times. The present Pilies hill, or Gediminas hill, used to be a mound before Christ. From the 5th through the 9th centuries people already lived not solely on the hill, but also to the southwest of it, on the bank of the Vilnia River. On the Pilies hill there stood a wooden castle in the 11th-13th centuries. Vilnius was not the first state capital of...
