Baltic

Baltic may refer to:

Geography

Northern Europe

  • The Baltic Sea, a sea in Europe
  • Baltic states (also Baltics, Baltic nations, Baltic countries or Baltic republics): Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
  • The Baltic region, an ambiguous term referring to the general area surrounding the Baltic Sea
  • Baltic governorates or provinces, former parts of the Russian Empire (modern Latvia, Estonia)
  • The Baltic Shield, the exposed Precambrian northwest segment of the East European Craton
  • The Baltic Plate, an ancient tectonic plate that is now fused onto the Eurasian Plate

North America

Peoples and languages

  • Baltic languages, a subfamily of Indo-European languages, including Lithuanian, Latvian and extinct Old Prussian
  • Balts (or Baltic peoples), ethnic groups speaking the Baltic languages and/or originating from the Baltic countries
  • Baltic Germans, historical ethnic German minority in Latvia and Estonia
  • Baltic Russians, Russian immigrant community of post World War II origin in the Baltic countries

Other

See also

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