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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