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Baltic states

General information
NameBaltic states
Administrative centerCapitals
Official languagesEstonian; Latvian; Lithuanian
Government
Geography
Total Area67523 sq mi (174884.6 km2) (91st)
Water %2.23% (3,909 km2)
Demography
Population Est.6812500 (100th)
Density (pop.)39.5/km2 (172nd) (102.4/sq mi)
Economy
GDP PPP$108.136 billion (2010) (63rd)
GDP (PPP) per capita$15,665 (56th)
GDP (nominal)$74.502 billion (2010) (68th)
GDP (nominal) per capita$10,792 (67th)
Other information

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The term Baltic states (also Baltics, Baltic nations or Baltic countries) refers to the Baltic territories which gained independence from the Russian Empire in the wake of World War I: Finland (in scope to the term in the 1920s after initially gaining independence) but primarily the contiguous trio of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (from north to south).

The term in the indigenous languages of the Baltic states is:

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