Which Baltic state has the largest total area?

Which Baltic state has the largest total area? The answer is Lithuania.

The three Baltic states are Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, countries on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania is the largest of the three by total area, covering about 65,300 square kilometers. Latvia follows at roughly 64,589 square kilometers, while Estonia is considerably smaller at about 45,339 square kilometers.

Lithuania’s southern position also gives it borders with Belarus, Poland and Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave, as well as Latvia to the north. Its capital, Vilnius, lies inland, while Klaipėda is the country’s major Baltic Sea port. The Curonian Spit and Curonian Lagoon form a distinctive coastal landscape.

A frequent trap is including Finland. Finland borders the Baltic Sea and is sometimes described as a Baltic-region country, but it is not one of the three Baltic states in the standard political sense. Lithuania’s modern statehood was restored in 1990, after the country had been incorporated into the Soviet Union during the twentieth century.