Baltic region

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The Baltic region is an ambiguous term used arbitrarily to denominate a region connected to the Baltic Sea.

Depending on the context it might stand for:

• the present Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)
• the historic regions of Livonia, Courland, and East Prussia
• the former Baltic province of Imperial Russia
  • The lands above in addition to Finland and sometimes Poland
• countries on the (British) trade route through the Baltic Sea
  • The lands above in addition to the Scandinavian Peninsula, i.e. to Sweden and Norway
• Baltic Sea countries
  • The lands above in addition to Denmark, Germany and Russia

See also:

• Baltic

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Baltic_region" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_region, used under the GNU Free Documentation License