Lithuania

Did you know?

• 🌊Was the largest country in Europe in the 1400s — stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea.
• ⚔️First country to officially declare independence from the Soviet Union, in 1990.
• ✨Vilnius has a self-declared bohemian micro-republic — Užupis — with its own constitution and president.
• 🏆Basketball is a national obsession — Lithuania has multiple Olympic basketball medals despite a tiny population.
• ✨The Hill of Crosses has over 100,000 crosses left by pilgrims and survived Soviet attempts to bulldoze it.