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What is Baltic Region?
Wikipedia summarizes what the notion
of "Baltic region" can comprize,
in following way:
"Depending
on the context the Baltic region might
stand for:
• the Baltic Sea countries -
countries that have access to the
Baltic Sea: Denmark, Estonia, Finland,
Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland,
Russia, and Sweden.
• the present Baltic states
(Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) sometimes
in addition to the Russian Kaliningrad
enclave
• East Prussia and the historical
lands of Livonia, Courland and Estonia
(Swedish Estonia and Russian Estonia)
• Balticum - geographic term
used in several languages, including
Scandinavian and German, which usually
denotes the territory corresponding
to modern Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
In some contexts, the term Balticum
includes the historically or culturally
German-dominated lands, or provinces,
of Estonia, Livonia, Courland and
Latgale (corresponding to modern Estonia
and Latvia), as well as sometimes
East Prussia, while Lithuania is sometimes
excluded.
• the former Baltic province
of Imperial Russia - Baltic states
in addition to (parts of) Poland
• the whole eastern side of
the Baltic sea, Baltic states and
Kaliningrad in addition to Finland
• countries on the (British)
trade route through the Baltic Sea,
i.e. the lands above in addition to
the Scandinavian Peninsula (Sweden
and Norway)
• Council of the Baltic Sea
States - Baltic Sea countries, in
addition to Norway, Iceland and the
rest of European Union."
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