Baltic region
The terms Baltic Sea Region, Baltic Rim countries (or simply the Baltic Rim), and the Baltic Sea countries/states refer to slightly different combinations of countries in the general area surrounding the Baltic Sea, mainly in Northern Europe. The term "Baltic states" refers specifically to one such grouping.
The group of countries that are members of the inter-governmental and Baltic Council of Ministers,[1] and generally referred to by the shorthand, Baltic states:[2][3][4] Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Baltic Assembly
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and of Russia, exclaved from the remainder of Russia.[5]
Kaliningrad Oblast
Historic and the historical lands of Livonia, Courland and Estonia (Swedish Estonia and Russian Estonia).
East Prussia
The former of Imperial Russia: Today's Estonia and Latvia (excluding parts of modern Eastern Latvia that were part of Vitebsk Governorate).
Baltic governorates
The countries on the historical trade route through the Baltic Sea, i.e. including the Scandinavian Peninsula (Sweden and Norway).
British
The of the Grand Baltic Entente also known as the Baltic League: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland.[6]
negotiating members
Members of the (CBSS),[7] are the countries[a] with shorelines along the Baltic Sea, in addition to Norway, Iceland and the European Commission.
Council of the Baltic Sea States
On historic and German maps, the Balticum sometimes includes only the historically or culturally German-dominated lands, or provinces, of Estonia, Livonia, Courland and Latgale (corresponding to modern Estonia and Latvia), East Prussia, Samogitia (corresponding to modern Western Lithuania) as well as sometimes Pomerania, Kashubia, while the historically less-Germanized Eastern Lithuania is occasionally excluded.
Scandinavian
In geology, the includes Fennoscandia, parts of northwestern Russia and the northern Baltic Sea.[10][11]
Baltic Shield
Depending on the context the Baltic Sea Region might stand for:
(Roman mythology)
Baltia
Baltic states
Baltoscandia
Council of the Baltic Sea States
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage elements in Northern Europe
Nordic identity in Estonia
Northern Dimension
North Sea Region
Norbert Götz. Baltic Worlds 9 (2016) 3: 54–67.
"Spatial Politics and Fuzzy Regionalism: The Case of the Baltic Sea Area."
of the Council of the Baltic Sea States
Official website
(archived 8 February 2008)
The Baltic Sea Information Centre
(EUSBSR) – a strategy aiming to accelerate the integration of the region
EU Baltic Sea Region Strategy
– a university network focused on a sustainable development in the Baltic Sea region (archived 10 June 2010)
The Baltic University Programme
Baltic Sea Region Spatial Planning Initiative VASAB
Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007–2013
– a digital library that provides scientific information on the Nordic and Baltic countries as well as the Baltic region as a whole.