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  1. Republic of area 65,200 sq km, 25,174 sq mi
  2. capital Vilnius towns Kaunas, Klaipeda,
  3. Siauliai, Panevezys physical central lowlands
  4. with gentle hills in W and higher terrain in
  5. SE; 25% forested; some 3,000 small lakes,
  6. marshes, and complex sandy coastline features
  7. river Nemen; white sand dunes on Kursiu
  8. Marios lagoon head of state Algirdas
  9. Brazauskas from 1993 head of government
  10. Adolfas Slezevicius from 1993 political
  11. system emergent democracy political parties
  12. Social Democratic Party, left of center;
  13. Democratic Labor Party (DLP), `reform
  14. communist`; Center Movement, centrist;
  15. Homeland Union-Lithuanian Conservatives
  16. (Tevynes Santara), right of center products
  17. heavy engineering, electrical goods,
  18. shipbuilding, cement, food processing, bacon,
  19. dairy products, cereals, potatoes currency
  20. litas population (1992) 3,802,000 (Lithuanian
  21. 80%, Russian 9%, Polish 7%, Byelorussian 2%) 
  22. language Lithuanian religion predominantly
  23. Roman Catholic 
  24.