Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos Respublika) is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and Memel Territory (until is annexation in 1930) and East Prussia to the southwest. Across the Baltic Sea to the west lies Sweden and Denmark.