Skip to content
GeodarPlay today's five

Worth knowing

Lithuania

By about 1440 the Grand Duchy of Lithuania took in what is now Belarus and most of Ukraine. It is often described as the largest state in Europe at the time.

Five things to know about Lithuania

In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the hard countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.

  1. Where it is. It's Lithuania, the southernmost of the three Baltic states, between Latvia and Poland. See Lithuania on a map.
  2. Its capital is Vilnius, and basketball is by far its favourite sport.
  3. One of its hills is covered with more than 100,000 crosses left by pilgrims.
  4. It was the last state in Europe to give up its pagan gods, in the late 1300s.
  5. In the 1400s this small country ruled a realm that stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea.

Every line on this page is a clue or a fact from Geodar, drafted with AI and checked against a source. Spotted a mistake? Tell us.