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Unlike other countries, Lithuania became independent on two separate occasions. Lithuania first declared itself from Czarist Russia on February 16, 1918. They remained an independent nation till 1940, when the erstwhile Soviet Union annexed it. After remaining under Soviet Union for almost 50 years, the Republic of Lithuania became independent once again in 1990.
Lithuania has Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east, and Poland to the south, along with Kaliningrad (which is part of Russia). To the west, like all the Baltic states, is the Baltic Sea. All three of the Baltic states were annexed by force to the Soviet Union in 1940.