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The sites in this section provide general information and links to metasites/portals of Internet resources concerning Lithuania.
Governments on the WWW: Lithuania (http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/lt.html)
Links to national and regional institutions, representations in foreign countries, political parties, and more.
Lithuania Online (http://www.online.lt/index.html.en)
Guide to Lithuanian Internet resources. Includes links to news, databases, business, and the arts, as well as government institutions. In English and Lithuanian.
Open Directory Project. Regional: Europe: Lithuania (http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Lithuania/)
Links to a wide variety of Web sites culled form major search engines.
United Kingdom. Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO). Country Profile: Lithuania (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-the-fco/country-profiles/europe/lithuania)
Prepared by FCO desk officers, the profile provides a general overview of Lithuania and includes information on the country's recent history, recent political developments, relations with the international community, and bilateral political and commercial relations with the UK, as well as a timeline, travel advice, and links to other relevant pages on the FCO site.
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook: Lithuania (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/lh.html)
General information and statistics about Lithuania, with the following subdivisions: introduction, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.
U.S. Department of State. Background Notes (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/)
Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. Click on country link.
U.S. Library of Congress, Federal Research Division. Lithuania, a country study (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/lttoc.html)
The Federal Research Division (FRD) of the Library of Congress published in 1996 an extensive handbook entitled Lithuania: a country study. The text and selected graphics of the 304-page work are available in an electronic format on the FRD Web site. The reader can search for words or variants of search words, within one country study or across multiple studies. The country study can be downloaded, one section at a time, and saved as an html or txt file. (No revised editions are planned at present.)
Directories
Infobel World - Telephone Directories--Lithuania (http://www.infobel.com/en/world/WorldTeldir.aspx?page=/eng/euro/lt&qSelLang=EN)
Yellow pages, business directories, and more. Primarily in English and Lithuanian; some Lithuanian only, also Russian.
Lithuanian Home Page (http://neris.mii.lt/nera.html)
Developed in 1995 under support of European Commission INSIGHT project. Links to local governments, cities, institutions, culture and heritage, science and education, and more. Also links to main Lithuanian WWW servers. In Lithuanian and English.
Zebra (http://www.zebra.lt/en/)
General portal, containing links to country profile, business resources, news, telephone directories, and more. Searchable. In English and Lithuanian.
Statistical Resources
Statistikos Departamentas (http://www.stat.gov.lt/lt/)
Department of Statistics of the Republic of Lithuania. Information and links to statistics and statistical databases with information on population, inflation, foreign direct investment, average monthly earnings, new publications on the subject, press releases, polls, censuses, products and services, and so on. Also links to Lithuanian government institutions and international organizations. In Lithuanian and English.
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