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Includes online maps, links to map collections, flags, climate, weather, natural resources. For information about maps and other geographical resources at the Library of Congress, consult its Geography and Map Reading Room site.
CNN.com Weather (http://weather.cnn.com/weather/forecast.jsp)
Select a location (Europe), then country (Lithuania), and click on a list of cities for weather forecasts.
Directory of Cities, Towns, and Regions in Lithuania (http://www.fallingrain.com/world/LH/)
Alphabetical listing of places in Lithuania as well as airports and aviation waypoints. Links to names provide city, region, latitude, longitude, elevation, and estimated population. From Falling Rain Genomics.
Environment Management and Audit Institute (http://www.avai.lt)
Aims to improve the ecological situation in Lithuania and the whole Baltic Sea region. Information on the organization, projects and events, publications, and more. In Lithuanian and English.
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) Online (http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/index.html)
A structured, world-coverage vocabulary of 1.3 million names, including vernacular and historical names, coordinates, place types, and descriptive notes, focusing on places important for the study of art and architecture. The TGN includes administrative political entities (e.g., cities, nations) and physical features (e.g., mountains, rivers). A search on Lithuania yields than 200 records.
Institute of Geology and Geography (http://www.geo.lt)
Includes information on departments, publishing, EU projects, and library. In Lithuanian, some English.
JewishGen. ShtetlSeeker. Town Search (http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/loctown.htm)
Search by town using exact spelling or the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex system. Search will display the latitude and longitude for each location, the distance/direction from the country's capital city, and links to maps. Gazetteer information from the U.S. Board of Geographic Names was used extensively in Where Once We Walked, a book focusing on shtetls in Eastern Europe used in the mapping function of the search. Part of the JewishGen Web site.
Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Lithuania (http://www.am.lt)
Information about the ministry, the environment, climate changes, sustainable development, publications, news, and more. Searchable. In Lithuanian, some English.
National Geographic (http://wwww.nationalgeographic.com)
Search on Lithuania.
University of Texas at Austin. Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. Lithuania Maps (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/lithuania.html)
Includes country and region maps as well as historical and thematic maps.
U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). GEONet Names Server (GNS) (http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html)
GNS provides access to NGA's and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names' (US BGN) database of foreign geographic feature names. The database is the official repository of foreign place-names approved by the US BGN. Approximately 20,000 of the database's features are updated monthly. Searches give the name of each location or feature, variant spellings, latitude and longitude, and additional numeric data. Searches may focus on a variety of elements, such as populated place, administrative region, type of area, vegetation, and fresh- and saltwater features. Searches may also be limited to areas demarcated by two lines each of latitude and longitude.
World Climate.com (http://www.worldclimate.com)
Provides climate data for tens of thousands of cities and places around the world. Search on city or town name.
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