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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 countries that have shorelines along the Baltic Sea: , Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Sweden.

Denmark

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

The islands of the B7 Baltic Islands Network, which includes the islands and archipelagos Åland (autonomous region of Finland), Bornholm (Denmark), Gotland (Sweden), Hiiumaa (Estonia), Öland (Sweden), Rügen (Germany), and Saaremaa (Estonia).[9]

Euroregion

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.

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