Lithuania is delimited in north by the Latvia, in the east and the south by the Bielorussia, in south-west by the Poland and the enclave of the Oblast de Kaliningrad (ex Königsberg) pertaining from now on to the Russia, and the west by the Baltic. The major part of the territory, located in the basin of Niémen, does not exceed 250 m of altitude. The country also has the vast wide ones of marsh, in particular in north and the east, including one great number was drained.
In 1989 a geographer of the national geographical institute established that the geographical center of Europe was in Lithuania, in the village of Purnuškės to 26 kilometers in the north of Vilnius. The method is based on the concept of Center of gravity of the European territories.
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