Had the pleasure to visit Vilnius and Kaunas in 2019, before the pandemic. Had tasted one of the best tap water and witnessed a very civilised population. You enjoy a quiet and harmonic environment. The trains from Vilnius to Kaunas are punctual and spotless. People had manners and style and looked like Scandinavians unlike the chaotic Balkans. I wish Lithuania and the Baltics more prosperity, because you deserve it. Greetings from a Bulgarian fan.
best tap water? Not sure how it is elsewhere in the world, in Estonia, i always drink tap water, not bottled water.. i dont want those soft plastics in my bloodstream, wich creates cancer and infertilitiy... (soft plastics are the reason why since 70s mens sperm count has dropped 50%, and will now drop 2% per year... if nothing changes humanity literally will go extinct this or next century.. and they are fighting over fcking electric cars and validity of co2 pollution lol... )
Studied there for half a year some years ago, Lithuania (and the Baltic region in general) will always hold a special place in my heart. The people who are introvert on the streets but become most welcoming and friendly when you meet them in a bar. The cuisine preparing local rural crops like potato, beetroot and dill into delicious meals such as Saltibarsciai or Bulviniai Blynai. The great natural wetlands and forests you have, Lithuania, a country with 3m citizens as compared with the Netherlands where I live, smaller in size and crowded 18m citizens. Had a lot of kayak, hiking and roadtrip travels there through the astonishing environment you have. Saw a lot of bird species that I haven't seen in my home country for a long time yet. The pitoresque wooden houses in the rural villages and the urban mural art on the walls of the concrete cities. When I came home in Netherlands I told friends and family about the relatively unknown Lithuania and quite some went, on my recommendation, on nature tourism in the Baltics. Always exceeded their expectations.
Interesting insight! As a Lithuanian birder now living in Netherlands, to me it seemed like NL has much more approachable birds and many more species I have never seen before. For example a lot of birds from the arctic regions come stay here in Netherlands, barely a chance to see them in Lithuania. Also some other birds like oystercatchers are very common here in NL, where in Lithuania they are very difficult to see.
@@rasa8573 Interesting to hear. Since the Netherlands is a delta of some major European rivers, it is an important resting place for migratory birds and therefore we have an international obligation to preserve and restore their ecological habitats (mainly through European regulations like the EU Birds Directive, EU Water Framework Directive and Natura 2000). This could be a reason why there's a big species diversity...but maybe the occurance restricts itself to some Natura 2000 sites. From my experience in Lithuania, bird species that I would deem rare or only visible in the most naturally preserved sites here in NL were quite commonly sighted anywhere in the rural areas, like the storks and bittern I will forever associate with Lithuania now. No real bird watcher myself though, so I'm no expert on it, but they seemed to enjoy the calm countryside and nature you have there. Also other animals like large mammal species such as deer and elk I've seen quite some times there, never saw them in the wild here. And man, when I was back in NL I heard there are some wisents in Lithuania...should've known earlier. Now I got another reason to come back I guess. Out of curiousity, is Lithuania a resting place for migratory birds as well? Felt like the country has, like NL, a lot of wetlands which seem to provide birds a good place to forage
@@anonymous-5608 sorry for late reply, I had some busy week studying hahah. When it comes to birds in Netherlands, there are, of course, a lot of waterbirds/reed birds that live very close to people. In Lithuania you have to drive very far away to see one, and here around Hague-Delft-Rotterdam area I can cycle for 10 min and see a lot of geese, godwits, lapwings, snipes, oystercstchers various interesting ducks(pintails, shovelers) around farms and bearded reedlings in the nearby reeds, and if very lucky, a great bittern. Yes, Lithuania has a lot of storks! Quite missing them here in NL, but there are around 3-4 pairs nesting around the area I live. In Lithuania, people put a lot if stork nest in the villages, one of the reasons why they are so common. When it comes to wintering birds in Lithuania, there aren't a lot of visitors nor locals. Quite a lot of locals like geese, songbirds, storks migrate somewhere warm, while in Netherlands they stay here. Visitor birds are usually are waxwings, if very lucky, a dipper. Arctic-region migrating birds like turnstones, wigeons, barnacle geese ect. that winter in Netherlands can only be seen during autumn/spring migration in Lithuania. I have to admit that in Netherlands, mammal populations are quite small and rare (but NL has insane amount of hares hahahaha).
As a Lithuanian who have lived 95% of my life in Lithuania, I always saw Lithuania boring, but as we getting more attention from world and more and more people travel to our country, I realized, how unique and beautiful Lithuania is, just when I was growing up my excitement was fading but thanks to you all my excitement is sparking up again, kind a feels like I am little kid again and everything is new and exciting.
I have been 3 times to Lithuania. 2 times to Vilnus and once to Klaipeda. Great trips. Will certainly visit more places in future. I also worked with Lithuanians. Good people.
Strange, for me its the other way arround. As a kid/teen I though its boring, poor and bad and I always wanted to live somewhere else. But now I grew up, my job requires me travelling all over the world(europe, south america, north america, middle east, etc.) and i spend half of my life abroad, I came to love Lithuania. We have so many great things that we dont notice. Good and free education, good healthcare system, very good and friendly people, free kindergardens for kids, not a bad standart of living, relatively high salaries. Its like we have the best things that they have in the western EU and the best things they had in soviet times. Its not completely capitalist, nor its socialist. We have 4 seasons, we have amazing nature, we are not really involved in any wars, we dont have terrorism, earthquakes or hurricanes and we are free to voice our opinion and believe in whatever we want. Yes, it could be better, but which country couldnt be better than it already is? Every country has its own problems. Lithuania is awesome and I love it.
That Lithuania was actually Ruthenia (today's Belarus). Today's Lithuania is Żmudź and Lithuanians are Żmudzini. Today's Lithuania (Żmudź) stole history from Belarus and claims itself to be the successor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
4:58 As a Lithuanian I want to state that this is kinda false. The "average" temperature does not reflect the reality. Our mid-summer temperature is usually sits around 24 C and for mid-winter it's around -15 C. There are of course some weird years for those temps, but it's not very common. However the amplitude between the highest and lowest is as big as 60 degrees! I've had experienced summers with +35 C and had winters with -25 C
I am 40 and visited Estonia las week first time for me and my wife, nice country especially Saasremaa, Rummu, Talin. Planning to visit again Tartu soon:) I actually found more Lithuanians than Estonians in POI :D
What is stopping you? It's quite close, and you see Latvia on the way. We are planning a tour through Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in June 2024. Quite a long way from the West of Germany, looking forward to our holidays.
Nie płaszcz się tak żałosny polaczku. Litwini nienawidzą Polaków, nie ważne ile im będziesz się podlizywać, ludzie tacy jak ty tylko wstyd przynoszą nam.
Well... as a Brit, I can say that I love Lithuania, since I live in Kaunas! :) And I can say truly, that I absolute murder the language! hahaha. It is very difficult, but I am learning! Slowly! :( lol
Visiting the country while on a tour for a band in 2019 and was amazed with the awesome festival devilstone and pure awesome people. We’re going back this summer, this time as tourists and hopefully visit the festival again. :) Love from 🇸🇪
Thank you. This is so fascinating. I live in UK - was born in UK (in 1965) to German mum and my English dad. Sadly, my mum died this year. I knew her parents (my grandparents) had been born in Prussia. I have recently taken DNA test and I am OVER 50% from Western Lithuania. I am now fascinated with this beautiful country and want to know as much as I can about it x
Thanks a lot for your sharing and well explaining of Lithunia.🙏. The first time in June, 2023 i and my 3 thai friends visted Vilnius and Trakai. Wonderful places to stay for 2 nights... I have to say that I really love Lithunia, seriously.. 💛💚❤ will be there again in 3 May 2024 So I will explore more for example Klaipeda Nida.. And will take a train from Vilnius. Will be great and amazing... Best Wishes from STOCKHOLM - SWEDEN
A Lithuanian here. Everything's true (well, except for the first second where as somebody in the comments mentioned you included a picture from a different country). I'm amazed at how much info you managed to cram in and still make it enjoyable to watch. Thanks for your work! Greetings from Vilnius
Been living here for 6years. Kind of seen all the different things and the surroundings just became my new normal. But you might just have given me a different angle/perspective and reason to re-explore the capital city and the other cities, thanks!
@@gelucourrier8591well politics is politics... governments... They don't learn to be quiet when need... and not sure if they do it for Lithuania or against our country 🤔 Not sure sometimes for who they are working...
I am a Pole. We have great past with Lithuania, the Commonwealth of Two Nations, and will have even greater future. My dream is to see Vilnus one day, where do mamy great Polish monuments exist. And the greatest Polish poet ADAM MICKIEWICZ was Born there , same as do mamy other Polish-Lithuanian people.
That Lithuania was actually Ruthenia (today's Belarus). Today's Lithuania is Żmudź and Lithuanians are Żmudzini. Today's Lithuania (Żmudź) stole history from Belarus and claims itself to be the successor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
For that reason there's first live portal in the world create between Lithuania and Poland in Vilnius. It is nice and fun. Been close to the portal this summer. And waiving for response back from Poland. And get back waiving from Poland! such a nice feeling :)
Some mistakes : when talking about paganism satanistic star symbol is used at the beginning there was footage from the old town of Tallinn when Trakai were mentioned at 6:25 the image shows "Kirkilų karstiniai ežerėlai" that is on the northern part of the country near Bižai. Cheers.
In Paganism, the pentagram is used by Wiccans and other Witchcraft religions. Lots of people see the five points of the pentagram as representing Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Spirit. This symbol has been found on a number of archaeological items. Just so you know that Pentagram is not only for satanism...
Still few corrections: Vilnia not exactly means ripple, it is more like "one with ripples" or "wavy ". The other thing - Naglis is not the name of the dragon (sea dragon), it is the name of the giant who defeated the dragon.
Another correction : look on a map , Einstein, and there is absolutely no way the epicenter of the European continent, the point of gravity is in Lituania ! That's all bullshit. It would rather be in the Carpates region, somewhere near the border line between Ukraine, Slovakia and Poland.
@@didierdenice7456 But it is. "A scientist at the Institut Géographique National (French National Geographic Institute) determined that the geographic centre of Europe is located at 54°54′24″N 25°19′12″E. The method used for calculating this point was that of the centre of gravity of the geometrical figure of Europe. This point is located in Lithuania, near the village of Girija". Depends on how to calculate it. And boy i would like to see a normal person who can point the exact position of most North/South etc Europe place just by looking at the map. /s
@@Tamsta-273C very nice details here but i think biggest problem is how you define Europe if its Eurazia of course its not a center, but i you take Europe map and turn around a bit it is actually pretty close to it. I'm Lithuanian so yeah :)
The origin of the name Vilnius is slightly incorrect, it cam from one of Lithuanians dukes who had a dream about a wolf on a mountain and decided to make a city there. And in Lithuanian Vilkas means wolf, that was the origin of the name. And slight correction - One of the oldest indo european languages, the oldest one is Hittite.
It's a very good way to explain Lithuania using footage from old town of Tallinn at the beginning. Such, a... I'd say enhanced Lithuania. Looks very cool. But you are not the only one who sinned that way 😁. I even (this is a good one) once stumbled upon a UA-cam clip with the featured picture of Trakai castle and BIG title over it - "LIVE AND WORK IN GERMANY". Such a guilty pleasure! 🤣 Apart from that - great content as always!
There's nothing more in ENHANCED in Estonia, when comparing it to Lithuania, thought... Lithuania caught up big time and even surpassed it in many ways. Read a recent economy book...
Hill of Crosses is not related to paganism, it's a relic of christian peoples resistance to soviet religious oppression. Soviets eventually got tired of tearing it down.
Lithuania was so oppressed by the Soviets that its population grew by over 50%. Since gaining independence and being warmly embraced by the EU, all those gains have evaporated, and then some. Odd, isn't it?
@@ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available There's nothing odd, all countries grew at similar rate. Looking at the population alone is meaningless and says nothing. While you trying to picture something as bad that the population shrunk, while actually people were able to travel, work, study easily in EU, and there's nothing wrong that people took those newly and freely opened opportunities.
@@ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available it grew by 50 % after Stalin had 50% executed or put into Siberian camps At end of ww2. Don’t you find it curious it had same population before soviet takeover as it had in 1991? …. You Russian Troll
@@amandalang6926 that does not sound hopeful... but maybe, start putting those small coins in a jar and then review the situation, at a later date ? :)
This video is great, probably the best on Lithuania. Good job! Just some notes: 10% of Lithuanians were deported. Most of that trade with Russia was goods in transit through Lithuania. And the population tendencies are now different. Since 2018 the population is actually increasing. January 2023 Lithuania had 2.86 million people. So population was shrinking between 1993-2017 and those 2050 estimates are done without looking at the improved economical and social reality in the country.
You are just lying. See stats. The current population of Lithuania is 2,623,471 as of Sunday, February 12, 2023, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.
@@rigisrs7506 Worlddometer is not accurate though. I can`t post links, but Lithuanian official statistics portal says that at the start of 2023 there were 2,860,002 people in Lithuania.
7:27 Jogaila's wife - Jadwiga wasn't just some princess or queen, no. She was crowned at the age of 10/11 as KING of Poland. Despite being crowned at such young age she never had a regant. She was one of the best rulers in polish history. She TRIPLED size of the kingdom of Poland by dimplomacy, marriage and wars. She was a great diplomat and even her enemies admitted that it was impossible to get more than she decided to give. She was also able to lead war campaigns, like when in 1387 (she was 13 at that time) she conquered Ruthenia. She was able to speak in 6 languages. She gave life to the first university in Poland (Casimir the Great started the process of its creation, but Jadwiga finished the work). Sadly she reigned only for 15 years because she died young at the age of 25/26. It's really impressive how much she was able to achieve during those 15 years and it makes you think how much she could do if she lived longer.
The Baltic Way - the event in 1989 when three nations literally formed a live human chain across three states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to protest illegal soviet occupation- is one of the earliest memories of my life. I remember the beautiful weather, the airplane flying over our heads throwing down flowers and, most importantly, THE feeling. The feeling of hope, love and freedom. Even as a little blob that I was at the time I understood that something huge is happening. This experience formed me as a person. No individual and no nation deserves anything that the generations of my parents and grandparents went through during the dark decades of brutal russian occupation. Slava Ukraini!
A great video, although some remarks here: 1. Baltic pagans did not use pentagram symbol 2. Temperatures in winter can get below -30C and in summer over +30C. But because of global warming winters nowadays are warmer and shorter and summers can be really hot for a week or few. 3. Population numbers have stabilised around 2020 and are currently even growing, mostly because of returning emigrants and war refugees. 4. Very good point about constant wars, literally there was no age when lithuanians were not figting enemies. We're just in the middle of great powers :(
I visited Lithuania just before the 2020 events. I loved it and am planning to visit again. If the language wouldn't be an issue, I'd probably move there for at least a couple years.
@@MSordernature The older you get, the less over crowded ,overpriced metropolitan cities you want to live in. Also there is that feeling, where you belong:).
Can not wait to go to Palanga; my favorite childhood place! Had many friends there, good Lithuanians. It shall be safe after the Anschluss with RF! And then Lithuania shall be free and prosperous again!🇷🇺🇺🇸
Solid video! Your pronunciation of Lithuanian words is very decent, which is a bit unusual, as foreigners usually gut it completely... 😄 Now you must do a video about our Baltic siblings. 😈
The Baltic sea coastline is only ~90 km. You probably got your number from Wikipedia, which includes Curonian Lagoon coastlines. However they are not considered actual coastlines as it's not technically sea.
Actually since the end of 2019 the population decline has stabilised and started growing. Even taking immigrants out of the picture, the Lithuanian citizen migration was positive in 2022. If there are no economic crises, the trend in population stability/growth should continue, especially as the quality of life in Lithuania has been picking up sharply in the past decade, especially the last few years and the main reason of emigration is financial/economical. Can't put the links for the sources as UA-cam bombs my comment but it's from the official statistics department of Lithuania and LRT article dated 01.18.2023
Content. At the beginning of 2022, the estimated resident population of Lithuania amounted to 2 million 806 thousand, i.e. by 4.8 thousand persons less than at the beginning of 2021. Since 2012, the resident population declined by 197.6 thousand, or 6.6 per cent.
Sabonis - the biggest star ever. But I like Jonas Valančiūnas as well. I did not noticed that LT dropped population so drastically. Probably the same story like in the LV, when joined to the EU and did not bring wealth to country, so ~30% emigrated to the West looking for a better life. Anyway, I like LT, lovely country and very friendly people, delicious food. Greetings from LV.
nowadays, more people are comming back than leaving Lithuania. Life here improved a lot in the past 5 years or so. The problem I see, and its affecting the whole west, is people dont have kids anymore or they have 1 at best. Im 30 and I only know a few people my age who has kids. Way more people are dying than being born. Thats the case in the whole EU, aging and decreasing population. If i remember correctly, Japan is far worse in that case, and the average age in the country is like 60-65 or so.
Definitely plan on visiting Lithuania in the future! But as someone from Portugal, the thought of summers being around 17º makes me shudder. Not sure I'd go for a swim at that time!
17 degrees is average. That means it gets higher and lower than that. It can sometimes get over 30 degrees, but sometimes drops to just 15 or even lower in night. Most of the time its somewhere around 20 degrees though.
Also average temperature includes day and night temperatures, if its 25 at day and 12 at night, the average will be much lower than 25, while actual temperature during the day is
As a Lithuanian, I feel like the population is decreased purely because of low birth rate and because a big part of population is older generations, also a lot of people move to different countries, because in Lithuania inflation is quite big and your wage doesn't increase that much
Omg, Lithuania is a great county with decent salaries. Now we see people from other European countries coming to Lithuania to be a part of its labour force. Which is quite great. I believe that the shrinking numbers will change and soon we will see the population growth, just like it happened in Ireland
@@FrOsT3D3 if salaries become German level, manufacturing won’t come. If prices stay higher than Germany, people won’t come. Lithuania needs more industry to compete for talent leading to higher wages; and better marketing of its geography as transit zone between east and west.
I am Lithuanian and your comment is such a cope. People have been saying "Lithuania will be strong and populous again!" for almost 10 years while everything continues to crumble. Who will want to work here? Companies don't even pay wages for their employees, you literally have to beg every month to get your wage, not to mention the constant bullshit where in some jobs you have to pay to your boss to be allowed to work. Most labour force is being passed to people from 3rd world countries who work for almost nothing. No industries, no improvement in living conditions, just higher rent, higher food prices and lots of coping.
Lithuania: "Man, being neighbors to Russia and Belarus sucks :(" Dieveniskes:" Ohhh, yeah, that's pretty terrible huh? Imagine if you we're literally INSIDE Belarus!!! IMAGINE HOW TERRIBLE THAT WOULD BE!!! >:("
I like how you told about origin of Vilnius name. Gediminas wrote letters and invited people from other countries to visit "Vilna" back in the day. There is one interesting fact about Gediminas, he proclaimed himself as a king. Also Pope when addressing him in letters called him "Rex" which means king. So he basically was a de facto king.
More like ~200K. And it's true that proportionately speaking slightly more non-Lithuanian people left. But it's also worth nothing that in the hundreds of thousands of Lithuanians left too. But that was primarily during the global financial crash and the years following it. Now the population has stabilized and there's roughly the same number immigrating/returning as there is emigrating. In some recent years - more.
no, people leave lithuania because it gets worse and worse, there was a survey, and third of students wants to leave country after studies, everything gets highter: prices, conflicts in which lithuania acts cool but indeed it just hurts for us, alcoholism, but salaries and infrastructure is same as 10 years ago
I left lithuania ages ago. Visited for the first time in 11 years. I was mind blown how much I missed it and loved it. How beautiful, green, calm, and just normal the country is. Of course like every country has it's own problems, but Lithuania is definitely not a bad country to live.
Good video, thanks. I guess the population of Lithuania didn't decline drastically during the wars and occupations, because aggressors and invaders simply brought their own population in. Tens of thousands of people were driven to Lithuania from USSR after the WW2. However, I think the time for me to go back home to LT is coming sooner or later :) Keep up with such great videos!
@@tnickknight It really depends how to look at that. Most of Soviet Slavic ( Rus, Ukr, Belorus) inhabitants arrived to the capital city and made a sure impact to turn Vilnius into Russian speaking area. And that effort has been quite successful. I think second largest percentage has been in Klaipeda. Even until this moment Vilnuis has Russian speaking part in the city. This is the reason why Russian speaking citizens of Ukraine look specifically at Vilnius as one of the possible destinations across Europe for relocation. To sum up : country's average of USSR people relocated to LT had been not that significant : up to 12 % at the most. However most of that amount has been concentrated in the capital city where they made significant impact both at the city and at national level.
Interesting to watch, but why you did put this title even tough you said later that this is a topic for another video??? LOL Best for Lithuanians from Poland
Geras videjo. Man patiko ziureti. Aciu kad padariai sita videjo! Labai mielai jauciuosi kaip lietuvis ziuredamas. Primena kad ne tik lietuvei zino kur Lietuva yra.
Fun fact,Lithuania had very central rule in the development of Jews(even outside of Europe and the West with Vilna Gaon and Chabad).Vilna was often called the "Jerusalem" of Eastern Europe and was the religious/intellectual/political Capital of Jews in Eastern Europe especially before WW1 and Russian Civil war. Just to explain to people it's significance,Lithuania was the main home of the Mitnagdim/"Litvaks" or in Hebrew "Litaim" Haredim(the main branch of traditional anti Hassidic Ultra Orthodox Jews who are today the majoirty of all Ultra Orthodox Jews worldwide)and historic home of the largest Hassidic dynasty worldwide(Chabad),many historic leaders like the Gaon from Vilna(which is known throughout the Jewish world)and many historical political formation like the Bund were all from Lithuania,WW2 though left very bad taste to amazing history.
@@monaliza3334 I am Jewish I know what Eastern European collaborator did to Jews(and yes that is unforgettable),but you can't take 1000+ years of history and ignore for the actions of one bad generation.
As a Lithuanian I can tell you shortly why population is declining. We have high grade education system in university, like doctors, scientists and so on. But the thing is, here is corruption in practically all government institutions, so basically you have world wide recognized knowledge and you can't do stuff, because of people even without medical education running hospitals, abusing power, paying low salaries compared to abroad. We pay for education of our specialists, but they ar leaving to other countries because Lithuania can't provide a normal paid. That is one part. Another part is corrupt government who is destroying middle class each ear more and more, making the distance between poor and wealthy weary big (of course you can make money here, but at the most part small businesses are bound to bankrupt because of no governmental help) Government only helps big organizations to get bigger. I think its partly like in most post soviet countries, Main enemy of the people is corruption. People became more of a living for myself type then living in a community, because everyone wants to survive and not everyone is successful. Overall country is beautiful, food is tasty, people are mostly welcoming, but inner structure of country is a sad and declaiming situation
My father's side of my family are from Lithuania. My father's family emigrated from Lithuania-Russia to Pennsylvania; USA in 1903. The tsar was at war with Japan and my great-grandfather did not want to get conscripted into the military. We have a copy of his citizenship paper whereby he renounces any allegiance to all foreign powers, princes, and potentates.
I'm a simple Latvian, I see Lithuania, I press like. 👍
My brother!! Slava ukraine!!
I like Latvian people im from Lithuania
I'm a simple lithuanian. I see Latvia - I call it zirga galva and press like and express my love to our brothers.
@@Mr.Whitecock kretinoidas?
@@Mr.Whitecock same
Had the pleasure to visit Vilnius and Kaunas in 2019, before the pandemic. Had tasted one of the best tap water and witnessed a very civilised population. You enjoy a quiet and harmonic environment. The trains from Vilnius to Kaunas are punctual and spotless. People had manners and style and looked like Scandinavians unlike the chaotic Balkans. I wish Lithuania and the Baltics more prosperity, because you deserve it. Greetings from a Bulgarian fan.
dude you are so nice ❤glad you enjoyed visiting lithuania, thanks
Ačiū Thank you
I am Lithuanian and I visited Bulgaria though I did not really see much so I can't really say anything besides it looking the same as Turkey to me.
age of empires 2 have Polish, Lithuanian, Czech/Bohemia, Bulgaria but not Russian.
best tap water? Not sure how it is elsewhere in the world, in Estonia, i always drink tap water, not bottled water.. i dont want those soft plastics in my bloodstream, wich creates cancer and infertilitiy... (soft plastics are the reason why since 70s mens sperm count has dropped 50%, and will now drop 2% per year... if nothing changes humanity literally will go extinct this or next century.. and they are fighting over fcking electric cars and validity of co2 pollution lol... )
Studied there for half a year some years ago, Lithuania (and the Baltic region in general) will always hold a special place in my heart. The people who are introvert on the streets but become most welcoming and friendly when you meet them in a bar. The cuisine preparing local rural crops like potato, beetroot and dill into delicious meals such as Saltibarsciai or Bulviniai Blynai. The great natural wetlands and forests you have, Lithuania, a country with 3m citizens as compared with the Netherlands where I live, smaller in size and crowded 18m citizens. Had a lot of kayak, hiking and roadtrip travels there through the astonishing environment you have. Saw a lot of bird species that I haven't seen in my home country for a long time yet. The pitoresque wooden houses in the rural villages and the urban mural art on the walls of the concrete cities. When I came home in Netherlands I told friends and family about the relatively unknown Lithuania and quite some went, on my recommendation, on nature tourism in the Baltics. Always exceeded their expectations.
Interesting insight! As a Lithuanian birder now living in Netherlands, to me it seemed like NL has much more approachable birds and many more species I have never seen before. For example a lot of birds from the arctic regions come stay here in Netherlands, barely a chance to see them in Lithuania. Also some other birds like oystercatchers are very common here in NL, where in Lithuania they are very difficult to see.
@@rasa8573 Interesting to hear. Since the Netherlands is a delta of some major European rivers, it is an important resting place for migratory birds and therefore we have an international obligation to preserve and restore their ecological habitats (mainly through European regulations like the EU Birds Directive, EU Water Framework Directive and Natura 2000). This could be a reason why there's a big species diversity...but maybe the occurance restricts itself to some Natura 2000 sites. From my experience in Lithuania, bird species that I would deem rare or only visible in the most naturally preserved sites here in NL were quite commonly sighted anywhere in the rural areas, like the storks and bittern I will forever associate with Lithuania now. No real bird watcher myself though, so I'm no expert on it, but they seemed to enjoy the calm countryside and nature you have there. Also other animals like large mammal species such as deer and elk I've seen quite some times there, never saw them in the wild here. And man, when I was back in NL I heard there are some wisents in Lithuania...should've known earlier. Now I got another reason to come back I guess.
Out of curiousity, is Lithuania a resting place for migratory birds as well? Felt like the country has, like NL, a lot of wetlands which seem to provide birds a good place to forage
@@anonymous-5608 sorry for late reply, I had some busy week studying hahah. When it comes to birds in Netherlands, there are, of course, a lot of waterbirds/reed birds that live very close to people. In Lithuania you have to drive very far away to see one, and here around Hague-Delft-Rotterdam area I can cycle for 10 min and see a lot of geese, godwits, lapwings, snipes, oystercstchers various interesting ducks(pintails, shovelers) around farms and bearded reedlings in the nearby reeds, and if very lucky, a great bittern. Yes, Lithuania has a lot of storks! Quite missing them here in NL, but there are around 3-4 pairs nesting around the area I live. In Lithuania, people put a lot if stork nest in the villages, one of the reasons why they are so common. When it comes to wintering birds in Lithuania, there aren't a lot of visitors nor locals. Quite a lot of locals like geese, songbirds, storks migrate somewhere warm, while in Netherlands they stay here. Visitor birds are usually are waxwings, if very lucky, a dipper. Arctic-region migrating birds like turnstones, wigeons, barnacle geese ect. that winter in Netherlands can only be seen during autumn/spring migration in Lithuania. I have to admit that in Netherlands, mammal populations are quite small and rare (but NL has insane amount of hares hahahaha).
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Why is every comment so long
As a Lithuanian who have lived 95% of my life in Lithuania, I always saw Lithuania boring, but as we getting more attention from world and more and more people travel to our country, I realized, how unique and beautiful Lithuania is, just when I was growing up my excitement was fading but thanks to you all my excitement is sparking up again, kind a feels like I am little kid again and everything is new and exciting.
I have been 3 times to Lithuania. 2 times to Vilnus and once to Klaipeda. Great trips. Will certainly visit more places in future. I also worked with Lithuanians. Good people.
Same...
lmao i fell the same. Grinai, tai man dabar reikia pradėti keliauti. dw
Strange, for me its the other way arround. As a kid/teen I though its boring, poor and bad and I always wanted to live somewhere else. But now I grew up, my job requires me travelling all over the world(europe, south america, north america, middle east, etc.) and i spend half of my life abroad, I came to love Lithuania. We have so many great things that we dont notice. Good and free education, good healthcare system, very good and friendly people, free kindergardens for kids, not a bad standart of living, relatively high salaries. Its like we have the best things that they have in the western EU and the best things they had in soviet times. Its not completely capitalist, nor its socialist. We have 4 seasons, we have amazing nature, we are not really involved in any wars, we dont have terrorism, earthquakes or hurricanes and we are free to voice our opinion and believe in whatever we want. Yes, it could be better, but which country couldnt be better than it already is? Every country has its own problems. Lithuania is awesome and I love it.
Tai kodėl nebegyvenate Lietuvoje?
I love Lithuania from Poland , we were a superpower together 🇵🇱💙🇱🇹
You forgot about the genocide of the Polish population.
@@andrejaga3003Which specific genocide do you mean?
That Lithuania was actually Ruthenia (today's Belarus). Today's Lithuania is Żmudź and Lithuanians are Żmudzini. Today's Lithuania (Żmudź) stole history from Belarus and claims itself to be the successor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
@@LordDamianus bro, The Belarusian nation was formed in the 20th century what are you talking about 😂
@@Szrapnel__ i do not like poland, poland have 38% balding men.. please stay away from lithuania, dont ruin lithuanian genes
My grandma was Lithuanian. I’ve researched my family tree and her ancestors are from Kaunas. So one day I will visit there.
u should
Recommend bringing an umbrella
My Grandma was Lithuanian too, I also plan to visit one day.
One day will be too late...
Hello my friend if you want to come to Kaunas you are welcome to visit me at my place you can contact me if you like to
I visited Lithuania when i was like 6 i dont remember much.
Love from Estonia 🇪🇪 ❤
You ought to come again, bro, you're very welcome!
4:58 As a Lithuanian I want to state that this is kinda false. The "average" temperature does not reflect the reality. Our mid-summer temperature is usually sits around 24 C and for mid-winter it's around -15 C. There are of course some weird years for those temps, but it's not very common. However the amplitude between the highest and lowest is as big as 60 degrees! I've had experienced summers with +35 C and had winters with -25 C
As an Estonian I've never been to Lithuania
But my family has. Hoping to go there soon
Its Tallinn 0:01
I am 40 and visited Estonia las week first time for me and my wife, nice country especially Saasremaa, Rummu, Talin. Planning to visit again Tartu soon:) I actually found more Lithuanians than Estonians in POI :D
What is stopping you? It's quite close, and you see Latvia on the way.
We are planning a tour through Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in June 2024. Quite a long way from the West of Germany, looking forward to our holidays.
please stay at pacific hostel vilnius. show manager this comment and avail 20 percent discount on your stay
Greetings from Poland, Dear neighbours! I had a pleasure, visiting Lithuania. Such a beautiful country with amazing cuisine!
I've just know this country for the first time and now I feel love this country so much.... Love from Cambodia.
Linkėjimai iš Lenkijos mūsų broliams lietuviams :)
Let's restore commonwealth again!
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Very noice but dont decrown Latvija as its true brothers, we are so alike in so many ways (Latvia and Lithuania)
Tau Iirgi
Nie płaszcz się tak żałosny polaczku. Litwini nienawidzą Polaków, nie ważne ile im będziesz się podlizywać, ludzie tacy jak ty tylko wstyd przynoszą nam.
Well... as a Brit, I can say that I love Lithuania, since I live in Kaunas! :) And I can say truly, that I absolute murder the language! hahaha. It is very difficult, but I am learning! Slowly! :( lol
Kaunas is best
@@tadas3065 sure is :) i love this city. 😀
Welcome to Kaunas, pal! The very best city of Lithuania...
@@EMclone Couldn't agree more :)
I am Latvian and I am learning lithuanaina and it should be easier for me to learn Lithuanian :D but that's not the case :D feel you :D
Lithuanians broliukas stay strong!
Love my brothers. Wish that we lived under the peace. you are the greatest. Love from Latvia.
Visiting the country while on a tour for a band in 2019 and was amazed with the awesome festival devilstone and pure awesome people. We’re going back this summer, this time as tourists and hopefully visit the festival again. :)
Love from 🇸🇪
Love to Lithuanian people from India
Yeah they don't poop 💩 in the streets 😂
@@Michael-wy6vo racist
@@கோபிசுதாகர்well people there do poop in the street right?? Why are Indians using that word?? Racist** you still have the caste system right 🤪🤪🤪
@@கோபிசுதாகர் Actually, it's a cultural thing you shit in the streets, no?
@@கோபிசுதாகர்Lithuanians feel the same way
I'm from Latvia but I wish I could live in Lithuania but Lithuania is so awesome like your Chanel ❤🇱🇹 🇱🇻
And very expensive... Dubai will be cheaper to visit...
I don't care man
You just have to cross one border. As an EU citizen you are free to live and work anywhere in the 27 countries.
@@sigitasmikalauskas2651 nope, Dubai is more expensive.
Greets Lithuania from Georgia! 🤜🏻🤛🏻
I'm really much impressed with your personality here. And your posts are so interesting..
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
I'm inspired to be a better person every day
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.@@thomasnorris7285
I'm inspired to be a better person every day
Beautiful Lithuania 🇱🇹.
those potato dumplings are called cepelinai. I'm lithuanian and I like them a lot
Love for Lithuana from Poland ♥️♥️♥️ Make Poland-Lithuana great again
Thank you. This is so fascinating. I live in UK - was born in UK (in 1965) to German mum and my English dad. Sadly, my mum died this year. I knew her parents (my grandparents) had been born in Prussia. I have recently taken DNA test and I am OVER 50% from Western Lithuania. I am now fascinated with this beautiful country and want to know as much as I can about it x
I’ll help out 😊
DNA tests aren't very reliable. Take another one from a different lab, and you may be 50% Russian (or whatever). 😅
Hey
Love from Estonia🇪🇪❤️🇱🇹
Thanks a lot for your sharing and well explaining of Lithunia.🙏. The first time in June, 2023 i and my 3 thai friends visted Vilnius and Trakai. Wonderful places to stay for 2 nights... I have to say that I really love Lithunia, seriously..
💛💚❤
will be there again in 3 May 2024 So I will explore more for example Klaipeda Nida.. And will take a train from Vilnius.
Will be great and amazing... Best Wishes from STOCKHOLM - SWEDEN
A Lithuanian here. Everything's true (well, except for the first second where as somebody in the comments mentioned you included a picture from a different country). I'm amazed at how much info you managed to cram in and still make it enjoyable to watch. Thanks for your work! Greetings from Vilnius
You forgot rusofobhic people
@@walterduszkiewicz8892 you forget what they did to us and still doing to UA!!!
Oh, right - you NEVER knew!
@@mindaugasv85 kazkodel musu rusai Lietuvoje niekam netrukdo arba lenkai, apart jusu lietuviu,visafa esat ir busit nacionalistais.
@@walterduszkiewicz8892 you forgot that it is a well-justified phobia ...
@@polaspo3828 lol😁
Proud of my country! 💛💚❤
Same
Been living here for 6years. Kind of seen all the different things and the surroundings just became my new normal. But you might just have given me a different angle/perspective and reason to re-explore the capital city and the other cities, thanks!
I love my country. And I’m proud to be Lietuvis.
🙂
Why are yr politics so vocals on the int. arena?
Same
@@gelucourrier8591well politics is politics... governments... They don't learn to be quiet when need... and not sure if they do it for Lithuania or against our country 🤔 Not sure sometimes for who they are working...
You can be proud of others’ achievement, not your being…
I am a Pole. We have great past with Lithuania, the Commonwealth of Two Nations, and will have even greater future. My dream is to see Vilnus one day, where do mamy great Polish monuments exist. And the greatest Polish poet ADAM MICKIEWICZ was Born there , same as do mamy other Polish-Lithuanian people.
That Lithuania was actually Ruthenia (today's Belarus). Today's Lithuania is Żmudź and Lithuanians are Żmudzini. Today's Lithuania (Żmudź) stole history from Belarus and claims itself to be the successor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
he was lithuanian doe
It's much nicer than Poland
that back stab about the Vilnius though
For that reason there's first live portal in the world create between Lithuania and Poland in Vilnius. It is nice and fun. Been close to the portal this summer. And waiving for response back from Poland. And get back waiving from Poland! such a nice feeling :)
Greetings from Latvia, the brother nation of Lithuania!
Some mistakes :
when talking about paganism satanistic star symbol is used
at the beginning there was footage from the old town of Tallinn
when Trakai were mentioned at 6:25 the image shows "Kirkilų karstiniai ežerėlai" that is on the northern part of the country near Bižai.
Cheers.
In Paganism, the pentagram is used by Wiccans and other Witchcraft religions. Lots of people see the five points of the pentagram as representing Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Spirit. This symbol has been found on a number of archaeological items. Just so you know that Pentagram is not only for satanism...
Vilnius is a gem and the countryside is beautiful.
Still few corrections: Vilnia not exactly means ripple, it is more like "one with ripples" or "wavy ".
The other thing - Naglis is not the name of the dragon (sea dragon), it is the name of the giant who defeated the dragon.
And our weathersman
Another correction :
look on a map , Einstein, and there is absolutely no way the epicenter of the European continent, the point of gravity is in Lituania ! That's all bullshit.
It would rather be in the Carpates region, somewhere near the border line between Ukraine, Slovakia and Poland.
@@didierdenice7456 But it is. "A scientist at the Institut Géographique National (French National Geographic Institute) determined that the geographic centre of Europe is located at 54°54′24″N 25°19′12″E. The method used for calculating this point was that of the centre of gravity of the geometrical figure of Europe. This point is located in Lithuania, near the village of Girija".
Depends on how to calculate it.
And boy i would like to see a normal person who can point the exact position of most North/South etc Europe place just by looking at the map. /s
@@Tamsta-273C very nice details here but i think biggest problem is how you define Europe if its Eurazia of course its not a center, but i you take Europe map and turn around a bit it is actually pretty close to it. I'm Lithuanian so yeah :)
nice corrections i forgot about Naglis but for sure new ripple is not a word for Vilnia.
The origin of the name Vilnius is slightly incorrect, it cam from one of Lithuanians dukes who had a dream about a wolf on a mountain and decided to make a city there. And in Lithuanian Vilkas means wolf, that was the origin of the name. And slight correction - One of the oldest indo european languages, the oldest one is Hittite.
As a Lithuanian living far away from home, I wish to return one day.
Same here
Go home guys, I live in Latvia and will never leave. We need everybody here, not elswhere
Borders are open. We are all free people.
Me too!
It's a very good way to explain Lithuania using footage from old town of Tallinn at the beginning. Such, a... I'd say enhanced Lithuania. Looks very cool. But you are not the only one who sinned that way 😁. I even (this is a good one) once stumbled upon a UA-cam clip with the featured picture of Trakai castle and BIG title over it - "LIVE AND WORK IN GERMANY". Such a guilty pleasure! 🤣
Apart from that - great content as always!
and Riga TV tower at 3 : 37
There's nothing more in ENHANCED in Estonia, when comparing it to Lithuania, thought... Lithuania caught up big time and even surpassed it in many ways. Read a recent economy book...
Hill of Crosses is not related to paganism, it's a relic of christian peoples resistance to soviet religious oppression. Soviets eventually got tired of tearing it down.
It actually begun a bit earlier - after the executions of the participants of the 1863 uprising, and reignited during Soviet times.
Lithuania was so oppressed by the Soviets that its population grew by over 50%. Since gaining independence and being warmly embraced by the EU, all those gains have evaporated, and then some. Odd, isn't it?
@@ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available There's nothing odd, all countries grew at similar rate. Looking at the population alone is meaningless and says nothing. While you trying to picture something as bad that the population shrunk, while actually people were able to travel, work, study easily in EU, and there's nothing wrong that people took those newly and freely opened opportunities.
@@ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available because Lithuania became a puppet of US and colony for bigger countries. We just work for them 😃
@@ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available it grew by 50 % after Stalin had 50% executed or put into Siberian camps At end of ww2. Don’t you find it curious it had same population before soviet takeover as it had in 1991? …. You Russian Troll
Nice to know some extra things about Lithuania 🇱🇹
Lithuanian coastline is approx. 98-99 km.
Excellent historic reporting.
I’m an American who randomly was thinking of Lithuania this morning. Don’t know why.
i would interrupt that as a sign, Amanda ! Lithuania is waiting for you to discover :)
@@walkietalkietraveller2932 with what money 😂
@@amandalang6926 keep checking for those flight bargains :)
I can afford a trip to work and a trip to the grocery store 🫤
@@amandalang6926 that does not sound hopeful... but maybe, start putting those small coins in a jar and then review the situation, at a later date ? :)
Enjoyed your video! I visited Lithuania a couple of days ago. It was a fascinating place.
I love 🇱🇹 I want to visit this beautiful country once the home of Lithuanian Commonwealth
🇺🇦❤️🇱🇹
I know Arvydas Sabonis as one of the best basketball players. Greetings from Chișinàu
As well as his son, NBA Star Domantas Sabonis
This video is great, probably the best on Lithuania. Good job! Just some notes: 10% of Lithuanians were deported. Most of that trade with Russia was goods in transit through Lithuania. And the population tendencies are now different. Since 2018 the population is actually increasing. January 2023 Lithuania had 2.86 million people. So population was shrinking between 1993-2017 and those 2050 estimates are done without looking at the improved economical and social reality in the country.
You are just lying. See stats. The current population of Lithuania is 2,623,471 as of Sunday, February 12, 2023, based on Worldometer elaboration of the latest United Nations data.
@@rigisrs7506 chill out
@@rigisrs7506 Worldometer founder - Andrey Alimetov, a Russian immigrant to the United States
@@rigisrs7506 Worlddometer is not accurate though. I can`t post links, but Lithuanian official statistics portal says that at the start of 2023 there were 2,860,002 people in Lithuania.
@@rigisrs7506 Hahaha. I am lying? I take Official data from Lithuanian department of Statistics. And you rely on on shity website :DD clown.
7:27 Jogaila's wife - Jadwiga wasn't just some princess or queen, no. She was crowned at the age of 10/11 as KING of Poland. Despite being crowned at such young age she never had a regant. She was one of the best rulers in polish history. She TRIPLED size of the kingdom of Poland by dimplomacy, marriage and wars. She was a great diplomat and even her enemies admitted that it was impossible to get more than she decided to give. She was also able to lead war campaigns, like when in 1387 (she was 13 at that time) she conquered Ruthenia. She was able to speak in 6 languages. She gave life to the first university in Poland (Casimir the Great started the process of its creation, but Jadwiga finished the work). Sadly she reigned only for 15 years because she died young at the age of 25/26. It's really impressive how much she was able to achieve during those 15 years and it makes you think how much she could do if she lived longer.
The Baltic Way - the event in 1989 when three nations literally formed a live human chain across three states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to protest illegal soviet occupation- is one of the earliest memories of my life. I remember the beautiful weather, the airplane flying over our heads throwing down flowers and, most importantly, THE feeling. The feeling of hope, love and freedom. Even as a little blob that I was at the time I understood that something huge is happening. This experience formed me as a person.
No individual and no nation deserves anything that the generations of my parents and grandparents went through during the dark decades of brutal russian occupation. Slava Ukraini!
The Baltic Way is the most unique way to show your independence, im happy that its my hometown😊
A great video, although some remarks here:
1. Baltic pagans did not use pentagram symbol
2. Temperatures in winter can get below -30C and in summer over +30C. But because of global warming winters nowadays are warmer and shorter and summers can be really hot for a week or few.
3. Population numbers have stabilised around 2020 and are currently even growing, mostly because of returning emigrants and war refugees.
4. Very good point about constant wars, literally there was no age when lithuanians were not figting enemies. We're just in the middle of great powers :(
summer is still nothing compared with other places, do to low humidity :) believe me .
@@redbear1935 but Lithuanian winters is another story. I even hear a couple of rusians complaining that they never felt so cold before.
@@rimka11 winters? There’s was literally no snow for few months now in Klaipeda.
@@maldlions5313 It feels even colder when there is no snow.
2.Temp was average, not extremes. And to be honest my country has not been getting as cold on average as in the past
im from Lithuania. first I tought no one will create video like that. Im so happy. I pressed like
I’m happy you watched it! 🙌😁
Hello 🎉🎉
I visited Lithuania just before the 2020 events. I loved it and am planning to visit again. If the language wouldn't be an issue, I'd probably move there for at least a couple years.
O jus kalbos mokykites po truputi bendraudami internetu, tai pades ir galbut atvaziuosite, neabejokite savimi,,, SĖKMĖS✨✨✨
actually many people are coming back to Lithuania now , I am considering too :).
🙌🇱🇹
How come?
@@MSordernature The older you get, the less over crowded ,overpriced metropolitan cities you want to live in. Also there is that feeling, where you belong:).
@@redbear1935 smart man
Can not wait to go to Palanga; my favorite childhood place! Had many friends there, good Lithuanians. It shall be safe after the Anschluss with RF! And then Lithuania shall be free and prosperous again!🇷🇺🇺🇸
Solid video! Your pronunciation of Lithuanian words is very decent, which is a bit unusual, as foreigners usually gut it completely... 😄
Now you must do a video about our Baltic siblings. 😈
Thank you! 😁 Those videos are coming! 😇
Labas Lietuva!
@@Martynas2017 , kablelį pamiršot tarp žodžių, lietuvi.
Not all the pronounciation was completely correct, but a lot of it was ok. Jogaila - the J is pronounced like Y (Yogayla).
@@manometras gi ne rasineli raso kad reiketu det kablelius
Incredibly high quality of content for such small channel! Keep it up
Thanks a lot for those kind words! 🙌
Actually many Lithuanian of my generation are returning home and settling in their home country.
As a lithuanian i can say the weathers are a bit off, 2022 summers hottest dya was more like 30-35 c⁰ and the coldest day was -20c⁰
jis mėnesio vidurkius minėjo, o ne šalčiausias/karščiausias metų dienas
this summer on Kupiškis i see 37celssiu
The Baltic sea coastline is only ~90 km. You probably got your number from Wikipedia, which includes Curonian Lagoon coastlines. However they are not considered actual coastlines as it's not technically sea.
Actually since the end of 2019 the population decline has stabilised and started growing. Even taking immigrants out of the picture, the Lithuanian citizen migration was positive in 2022.
If there are no economic crises, the trend in population stability/growth should continue, especially as the quality of life in Lithuania has been picking up sharply in the past decade, especially the last few years and the main reason of emigration is financial/economical.
Can't put the links for the sources as UA-cam bombs my comment but it's from the official statistics department of Lithuania and LRT article dated 01.18.2023
Content. At the beginning of 2022, the estimated resident population of Lithuania amounted to 2 million 806 thousand, i.e. by 4.8 thousand persons less than at the beginning of 2021. Since 2012, the resident population declined by 197.6 thousand, or 6.6 per cent.
@@rigisrs7506 Source?
@@arnasLT.
Demography - Oficialiosios statistikos portalasosp.stat.gov.lt
@@arnasLT. many sources , look it up
LRT is a bought out so called “news” channel. All lies!
Lithuania, please don't die. There's so few of you... 🇵🇱💗🇱🇹
thanks bud, love from Lithuania to Poland :)❤
At 03:36 you are not showing the TV tower of Lithuania. This is the Radio tower of Riga (Latvia)
It's good but Naglis wasn't the dragon, he was a giant who killed the dragon, theres not a lot of info about that so it might get mixed up :)
Sabonis - the biggest star ever. But I like Jonas Valančiūnas as well. I did not noticed that LT dropped population so drastically. Probably the same story like in the LV, when joined to the EU and did not bring wealth to country, so ~30% emigrated to the West looking for a better life.
Anyway, I like LT, lovely country and very friendly people, delicious food. Greetings from LV.
Ukrainians are coming in thousands. We will have 3000000 again in couple of years
@@1Talentas then...will be no more lithuanians...
nowadays, more people are comming back than leaving Lithuania. Life here improved a lot in the past 5 years or so. The problem I see, and its affecting the whole west, is people dont have kids anymore or they have 1 at best. Im 30 and I only know a few people my age who has kids. Way more people are dying than being born. Thats the case in the whole EU, aging and decreasing population. If i remember correctly, Japan is far worse in that case, and the average age in the country is like 60-65 or so.
Definitely plan on visiting Lithuania in the future! But as someone from Portugal, the thought of summers being around 17º makes me shudder. Not sure I'd go for a swim at that time!
actually in summer it gets up to 30 degrees celsius here. Not sure were you got 17 degrees. Such temperature is during spring not summer
@@Laimondasss The video made it sound like 17º is the average temperature during summer. Good to hear that it's warmer!
17 degrees is average. That means it gets higher and lower than that. It can sometimes get over 30 degrees, but sometimes drops to just 15 or even lower in night. Most of the time its somewhere around 20 degrees though.
Also average temperature includes day and night temperatures, if its 25 at day and 12 at night, the average will be much lower than 25, while actual temperature during the day is
As a Lithuanian, I feel like the population is decreased purely because of low birth rate and because a big part of population is older generations, also a lot of people move to different countries, because in Lithuania inflation is quite big and your wage doesn't increase that much
Because Lithuanian goverment rules post soviet people they dont care about poor and your Landsberg is same like in russia putin
Can you do Czech Republic next? 🇨🇿
It’s coming soon! 🙏🇨🇿
I love learning about the Baltic States tbh
Omg, Lithuania is a great county with decent salaries.
Now we see people from other European countries coming to Lithuania to be a part of its labour force.
Which is quite great.
I believe that the shrinking numbers will change and soon we will see the population growth, just like it happened in Ireland
Decent salaries? prices higher than in Germany yet salaries are 3 times lower than in Germany? stop using drugs son
@@FrOsT3D3 if salaries become German level, manufacturing won’t come. If prices stay higher than Germany, people won’t come. Lithuania needs more industry to compete for talent leading to higher wages; and better marketing of its geography as transit zone between east and west.
I am Lithuanian and your comment is such a cope. People have been saying "Lithuania will be strong and populous again!" for almost 10 years while everything continues to crumble. Who will want to work here? Companies don't even pay wages for their employees, you literally have to beg every month to get your wage, not to mention the constant bullshit where in some jobs you have to pay to your boss to be allowed to work. Most labour force is being passed to people from 3rd world countries who work for almost nothing. No industries, no improvement in living conditions, just higher rent, higher food prices and lots of coping.
@@stereozero396 what is average pay in Lithuania now?
@@somedude2734 1799€
Lithuania: "Man, being neighbors to Russia and Belarus sucks :("
Dieveniskes:" Ohhh, yeah, that's pretty terrible huh? Imagine if you we're literally INSIDE Belarus!!! IMAGINE HOW TERRIBLE THAT WOULD BE!!! >:("
nice vid love from Lithuania
Thank you for this fascinating exposition--very, very interesting and informative!
Absolutely misleading video caption. There is nothing explained in the video about why everyone is leaving Lithuania.
Exactly. Told everything, but not the reason why everyone's leaving.
I like how you told about origin of Vilnius name. Gediminas wrote letters and invited people from other countries to visit "Vilna" back in the day. There is one interesting fact about Gediminas, he proclaimed himself as a king. Also Pope when addressing him in letters called him "Rex" which means king. So he basically was a de facto king.
Every ruler of Lithuania up until the union with Poland was a de facto king. Kunigaikštis comes from the German König (King).
Well around 400k people who left Lithuania were people from other ex soviet countries, they just came back to their country of origin.
Lol no
You are talking absolutely nonsences, you a probably do not have any brain cells in your head, just a emptiness.😄
More like ~200K. And it's true that proportionately speaking slightly more non-Lithuanian people left. But it's also worth nothing that in the hundreds of thousands of Lithuanians left too.
But that was primarily during the global financial crash and the years following it. Now the population has stabilized and there's roughly the same number immigrating/returning as there is emigrating. In some recent years - more.
lol
no, people leave lithuania because it gets worse and worse, there was a survey, and third of students wants to leave country after studies, everything gets highter: prices, conflicts in which lithuania acts cool but indeed it just hurts for us, alcoholism, but salaries and infrastructure is same as 10 years ago
Im a simple Pole, I see Lithuania, I press like 👍
Love lithuania from lithuania 🇱🇹 ❤️ 🇱🇹
Soo good video about Lithuania !! Btw Lithuania have one of oldest bell in the world and he is in village (I am from this village :D)
I left lithuania ages ago. Visited for the first time in 11 years.
I was mind blown how much I missed it and loved it. How beautiful, green, calm, and just normal the country is. Of course like every country has it's own problems, but Lithuania is definitely not a bad country to live.
Good video, thanks. I guess the population of Lithuania didn't decline drastically during the wars and occupations, because aggressors and invaders simply brought their own population in. Tens of thousands of people were driven to Lithuania from USSR after the WW2. However, I think the time for me to go back home to LT is coming sooner or later :) Keep up with such great videos!
Actually no, Lithuania did not receive many people from the USSR, the other two Baltics were not as lucky
@@tnickknight Let me step in: LT did not receive THAT many people as Latvia and Estonia did. But still that has been a lot!
@@alexeistoyanovsky9161 not really, look at our demographics, we got very little as a whole
@@tnickknight It really depends how to look at that. Most of Soviet Slavic ( Rus, Ukr, Belorus) inhabitants arrived to the capital city and made a sure impact to turn Vilnius into Russian speaking area. And that effort has been quite successful. I think second largest percentage has been in Klaipeda. Even until this moment Vilnuis has Russian speaking part in the city. This is the reason why Russian speaking citizens of Ukraine look specifically at Vilnius as one of the possible destinations across Europe for relocation. To sum up : country's average of USSR people relocated to LT had been not that significant : up to 12 % at the most. However most of that amount has been concentrated in the capital city where they made significant impact both at the city and at national level.
Interesting to watch, but why you did put this title even tough you said later that this is a topic for another video??? LOL
Best for Lithuanians from Poland
I'm swedish but all of my family And MY dog is Lithuania
Geras videjo. Man patiko ziureti. Aciu kad padariai sita videjo! Labai mielai jauciuosi kaip lietuvis ziuredamas. Primena kad ne tik lietuvei zino kur Lietuva yra.
Hi from Lithuania!
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Great history video to watch.
First video is of Tallinn, in Estonia.
Yeah, and he showed a video of Riga when talking about the Vilnius TV tower and Nazi soldiers when talking about WW1.
Where is that Castle in the lakes in the beginning of the video? Atleast tell me what admin. region it is in
It’s Trakai Castle
Beautiful country!
As a lithanuian I love the information
Esu lietuvis, ir tuo didziuojuos🇱🇹✌️
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@@CountriesExplained Estonia the Baltic Tiiger -it is an excellent doc movie about Estonia in YuuTuube.
I FAILED MY INTERVIEW MY IT WAS ABSOLUTELY LOVE THAT COUNTRY TO EXPLORE IT
Lithuania is Great...
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Fun fact,Lithuania had very central rule in the development of Jews(even outside of Europe and the West with Vilna Gaon and Chabad).Vilna was often called the "Jerusalem" of Eastern Europe and was the religious/intellectual/political Capital of Jews in Eastern Europe especially before WW1 and Russian Civil war.
Just to explain to people it's significance,Lithuania was the main home of the Mitnagdim/"Litvaks" or in Hebrew "Litaim" Haredim(the main branch of traditional anti Hassidic Ultra Orthodox Jews who are today the majoirty of all Ultra Orthodox Jews worldwide)and historic home of the largest Hassidic dynasty worldwide(Chabad),many historic leaders like the Gaon from Vilna(which is known throughout the Jewish world)and many historical political formation like the Bund were all from Lithuania,WW2 though left very bad taste to amazing history.
Is that's why during WW2 you joined Hitler and murdered many of them?!
@@monaliza3334 I am Jewish I know what Eastern European collaborator did to Jews(and yes that is unforgettable),but you can't take 1000+ years of history and ignore for the actions of one bad generation.
@@yakov95000 well I am Jewish from Lithuania , no Jewish kid in Kaunas had grandparents after wwl2 myself including. Hmm bad generation?
@@natalia18233 As I said WW2 destroyed amazing history...
There is many victims, some of them just get on with life as no one wish to know their story.....
Visited 2018. In Vilnius and Kaunus. Fantastic country, fantastic people. Will get ther again Im sure.
So the only thing not answered in this video, was the main question in a thumbnail. Got it.
hi thanks for talking about my Country!
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As a Lithuanian I can tell you shortly why population is declining. We have high grade education system in university, like doctors, scientists and so on. But the thing is, here is corruption in practically all government institutions, so basically you have world wide recognized knowledge and you can't do stuff, because of people even without medical education running hospitals, abusing power, paying low salaries compared to abroad. We pay for education of our specialists, but they ar leaving to other countries because Lithuania can't provide a normal paid. That is one part. Another part is corrupt government who is destroying middle class each ear more and more, making the distance between poor and wealthy weary big (of course you can make money here, but at the most part small businesses are bound to bankrupt because of no governmental help) Government only helps big organizations to get bigger. I think its partly like in most post soviet countries, Main enemy of the people is corruption. People became more of a living for myself type then living in a community, because everyone wants to survive and not everyone is successful. Overall country is beautiful, food is tasty, people are mostly welcoming, but inner structure of country is a sad and declaiming situation
My father's side of my family are from Lithuania. My father's family emigrated from Lithuania-Russia to Pennsylvania; USA in 1903. The tsar was at war with Japan and my great-grandfather did not want to get conscripted into the military. We have a copy of his citizenship paper whereby he renounces any allegiance to all foreign powers, princes, and potentates.
Im from Lthuania that so cool😎
0:23 What is this place?
It's near the city of Siaulai, the Hill of Crosses.