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The location of the geographical centre of Europe depends on the definition of the borders of Europe, mainly whether remote islands are included to define the extreme points of Europe, and on the method of calculating the final result. Thus, several places claim to host this hypothetical centre.
Girija is a village in Vilnius District Municipality, Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, it had population of 9. It is located near the Girija Lake . [1] The only Geographical Centre of Europe recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records is located in Girija. [2] [3] The village also hosts the Europos Centro Golf Club.
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Space of Unknown Growth. Europos Parkas (the "Park of Europe") is a 50-hectare open-air museum located 17 km from Vilnius, Lithuania.The museum gives an artistic significance to the geographic centre of the European continent (as determined by the French National Geographic Institute in 1989) and presents Lithuanian and international modern art.
Lithuania lies at the edge of the North European Plain. [2] Its landscape was shaped by the glaciers of the last Ice Age , [ 2 ] which retreated about 25,000–22,000 years BP ( Before Present ). [ citation needed ] Lithuania's terrain is an alternation of moderate lowlands and highlands. [ 2 ]
Physiographically, it is the northwestern peninsula of the larger landmass known as Eurasia (or the larger Afro-Eurasia); Asia occupies the centre and east of this continuous landmass. Europe's eastern frontier is usually delineated by the Ural Mountains in Russia, which is the largest country by land area in the continent.
It is the centre of Lithuania's youngest municipality, located on the north-eastern edge of the country. It was built as a town for workers engaged in the construction of the now decommissioned Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant. Visaginas is the only city in Lithuania where the majority of population speaks Russian as their first language. [1]
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West-Central and East-Central Europe – this conception, presented in 1950, [90] distinguishes two regions in Central Europe: German West-Centre, with the imperial tradition of the Reich, and the East-Centre covered by a variety of nations from Finland to Greece, placed between the great empires of Scandinavia, Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union.