the northern portion of Curonian Spit National Park lies within a country in the Baltic region of northern-eastern Europe that is bordered to the north by what?
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Curonian Spit National Park (Russia) Curonian Spit National Park (Russian: Куршская коса ) (Also: Kurshskaya Kosa) covers the Russian-owned southern 41 km of the 98 km long, curved Curonian Spit – a type of depositional sandbar. The spit separates the salt-water Baltic Sea (on the west) from the freshwater Curonian Lagoon to the east. The southern portion of the spit lies within Zelenogradsky District in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia; the northern portion lies within southwestern Lithuania. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site shared by the two countries.
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Lithuania Lithuania ( , Lithuanian: "Lietuva" ] ), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lithuanian: "Lietuvos Respublika" ), is a country in the Baltic region of northern-eastern Europe. One of the three Baltic states, it is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, to the east of Sweden and Denmark. It is bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Kaliningrad Oblast (a Russian exclave) to the southwest. Lithuania has an estimated population of 2.8 million people as of 2017 , and its capital and largest city is Vilnius. Lithuanians are a Baltic people. The official language, Lithuanian, along with Latvian, is one of only two living languages in the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family.
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Slovenia Slovenia ( ; Slovene: "Slovenija" ] ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene:    , abbr.: "RS"), is a nation state located in the southern Central Europe, variously classified as part of Eastern and Southern Europe. The country is located at the crossroads of main European cultural and trade routes. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the south and southeast, and the Adriatic Sea to the southwest. It covers 20,273 km2 and has a population of 2.06 million. It is a parliamentary republic and a member of the United Nations, European Union, and NATO. The capital and largest city is Ljubljana.
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Gulf of Finland The Gulf of Finland (Finnish: "Suomenlahti" ; Estonian: "Soome laht" ; Russian: Фи́нский зали́в , "Finskiy zaliv"; ] ; Swedish: "Finska viken" ) is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea. It extends between Finland (to the north) and Estonia (to the south) all the way to Saint Petersburg in Russia, where the river Neva drains into it. Other major cities around the gulf include Helsinki and Tallinn. The eastern parts of the Gulf of Finland belong to Russia, and some of Russia's most important oil harbours are located farthest in, near Saint Petersburg (including Primorsk). As the seaway to Saint Petersburg, the Gulf of Finland has been and continues to be of considerable strategic importance to Russia. Some of the environmental problems affecting the Baltic Sea are at their most pronounced in the shallow gulf.
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Bodden Bodden are briny bodies of water often forming lagoons, along the southwestern shores of the Baltic Sea, primarily in Germany's state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. These lagoons can be found especially around the island of Rügen, Usedom and the Fischland-Darss-Zingst peninsula. Some of them are protected reserves, forming the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park.
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Vistula Spit Landscape Park Vistula Spit Landscape Park ("Park Krajobrazowy Mierzeja Wiślana") is a protected area (Landscape Park) on the Vistula Spit in northern Poland. The Park was established in 1985, and covers an area of 44.10 km2 .
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Siberia Siberia ( ; Russian: Сиби́рь , "Sibir'"; ] ) is an extensive geographical region, and by the broadest definition is also known as North Asia. Siberia has historically been a part of Russia since the 17th century.
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Upper Norrland Upper Norrland (Swedish: "Övre Norrland" ) is a National Area (Swedish: "Riksområde" ) of Sweden. The National Areas are a part of the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) of Sweden.
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Norrbotten Norrbotten (] ), known in English as North Bothnia, is a Swedish province ("landskap") in northernmost Sweden. It borders south to Västerbotten, west to Swedish Lapland, and east to Finland.
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Northern Jutland Northern Jutland (Danish: "Nørrejylland" ) is the name for the region north of the Kongeå in Jutland. The region south of the Kongeå is called Southern Jutland ("Sønderjylland"). Both territories have had own ting assemblies in the Middle Ages (in Viborg and Urnehoved).
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Slovakia Slovakia ( ; Slovak: "Slovensko" ] ), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovak: "Slovenská republika" ,    ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south. Slovakia's territory spans about 49000 km2 and is mostly mountainous. The population is over 5 million and comprises mostly ethnic Slovaks. The capital and largest city is Bratislava. The official language is Slovak.
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship The Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, also known as Cuiavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship or simply Kujawsko-Pomorskie or Kujawy-Pomerania Province (in Polish, "województwo kujawsko-pomorskie" ] ), is one of the 16 voivodeships (provinces) into which Poland is now divided. It is situated in mid-northern Poland, on the boundary between the two historic regions from which it takes its name: Kuyavia (Polish: "Kujawy" ) and Pomerania (Polish: "Pomorze" ). Its two chief cities, serving as the province's joint capitals, are Bydgoszcz and Toruń.
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Białowieża National Park Białowieża National Park (Polish: "Białowieski Park Narodowy" ) is a National Park in Podlaskie Voivodeship, in Eastern Poland adjacent with the border with Belarus. The total area of the park is 152.2 km2 . It is located 62 km southeast of Białystok (Poland). It is known for the protection of the best preserved part of the Białowieża Forest, Europe's last temperate primaeval forest fragment that once stretched across the European Plain. It is home to the world's largest population of European bison (Polish: "żubr" ), the continent's heaviest land animals. The border between the two countries runs through the forest, the Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park is adjacent on the Belarus side of the border. There is a border crossing for hikers and cyclists within the forest.
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Belgium Belgium ( ), officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a sovereign state in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, and the North Sea. It is a small, densely populated country which covers an area of 30528 km2 and has a population of about 11 million people. Straddling the cultural boundary between Germanic and Latin Europe, Belgium is home to two main linguistic groups: the Dutch-speaking, mostly Flemish community, which constitutes about 59 percent of the population, and the French-speaking, mostly Walloon population, which comprises 40 percent of all Belgians. Additionally, there is a small 1 percent group of German-speakers who live in the East Cantons.
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Germania Germania ( ) was the Roman term for the geographical region in north-central Europe inhabited mainly by Germanic peoples.
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Montenegrin Littoral The Coastline of Montenegro, also called the Montenegrin Littoral (Montenegrin and Serbian: "Crnogorsko primorje"/Црногорско приморје ), historically the Littoral or the Maritime, is the littoral region in Montenegro which borders the Adriatic Sea. Prior to the Creation of Yugoslavia, the Montenegrin Littoral was not part of the Kingdom of Montenegro, but rather a bordering region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, latterly part of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs.
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Red Croatia Red Croatia (Latin: "Croatia Rubea" , Croatian: "Crvena Hrvatska" ), is a historical term used for the southeastern parts of Roman Dalmatia and some other territories, including parts of present-day Montenegro, Albania, the Herzegovina region of Bosnia and Herzegovina and southeastern Croatia, stretching across the Adriatic Sea.
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Polesia Polesia, Polesie or Polesye (Belarusian: Пале́ссе "Paliessie", Ukrainian: Полі́сся "Polissia" or "Polisia", Polish: "Polesie" ] , Russian: Поле́сье "Poles'e" ] ) is a natural and historical region starting from the farthest edges of Central Europe and into Eastern Europe, stretching from parts of Eastern Poland, touching similarily named Podlasie, straddling the Belarus - Ukraine border and into western Russia.
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Jutland Jutland ( ; Danish: "Jylland" ] ; German: "Jütland" ] ), also known as the Cimbric or Cimbrian Peninsula (Latin: "Cimbricus Chersonesus" ; Danish: "Den Kimbriske Halvø" ; German: "Kimbrische Halbinsel" ), is a peninsula of Northern Europe that forms the continental portion of Denmark and part of northern Germany. The names are derived from the Jutes and the Cimbri, respectively. Jutland's terrain is relatively flat, with open lands, heaths, plains and peat bogs in the west and a more elevated and slightly hilly terrain in the east.
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Nida, Lithuania Nida (German: "Nidden" ) is a resort town in Lithuania, the administrative centre of Neringa municipality. Located on the Curonian Spit between the Curonian Lagoon and the Baltic Sea, it is the westernmost point of Lithuania and the Baltic states, close to the border with the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast exclave. It currently has about 1,650 residents.
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Carpathian Ruthenia Carpathian Ruthenia, Carpatho-Ukraine, or Zakarpattia (Rusyn and Ukrainian: Карпатська Русь , "Karpats'ka Rus' " , or Rusyn and Ukrainian: Закарпаття , "Zakarpattja " ; Slovak and ; Hungarian: "Kárpátalja" ; Romanian: "Transcarpatia" ; Polish: "Zakarpacie" ; German: "Karpatenukraine" ) is a historic region in the border between Central and Eastern Europe, mostly located in western Ukraine's Zakarpattia Oblast, with smaller parts in easternmost Slovakia (largely in Prešov Region and Košice Region) and Poland's Lemkovyna. Before World War I most of this region was part of the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary. In the interwar period, it was part of the First and Second Czechoslovak Republic. During World War II, the region was annexed by the Kingdom of Hungary once again. After the war, it became part of Soviet Ukraine.
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List of companies of Ukraine Ukraine is a sovereign state in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Belarus to the northwest, Poland and Slovakia to the west, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova to the southwest, and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south and southeast, respectively. Including Crimea, Ukraine has an area of 603628 km² , making it the largest country entirely within Europe and the 46th largest country in the world, and a population of about 44.5 million, making it the 32nd most populous country in the world.