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Member states of the Three Seas Initiative
- LatviaLatvia covers 64,573 square kilometres on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, yet its population numbers only 1.83 million people.
- LithuaniaLithuania once stretched across more land than any other country in Europe. In the first half of the 14th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania reached…
- EstoniaEstonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, sits at the edge of Northern Europe where the Baltic Sea meets the Gulf of Finland.
- PolandPoland lost the highest percentage of its citizens of any country in the Second World War. Around 6 million people perished, more than one-sixth of the…
- RomaniaRomania sits at a crossroads that ancient peoples recognized long before modern borders were drawn. Fossils found in a cave called Peștera cu Oase, which…
- CroatiaCroatia sits at the edge of the Adriatic Sea, a country of over a thousand islands and islets, where the water shifts from turquoise to mint green over…
- Czech RepublicThe Czech Republic holds a ceramic figurine that is, by current archaeological reckoning, the oldest of its kind ever found anywhere on Earth.
- SloveniaSlovenia sits at the crossroads of four of Europe's great geographic worlds: the Alps, the Mediterranean, the Pannonian Plain, and the Dinaric mountains.
- AustriaAustria sits at the geographic heart of Europe, a landlocked country of 83,879 square kilometres where the Eastern Alps give way to the Pannonian Plain.
- GreeceGreece, officially the Hellenic Republic, has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean. It is a country of 10 million people on the southern tip of the…