Central Lithuanian Plain

Central Lithuanian Plain (Lithuanian: Vidurio Lietuvos žemuma) is a plain which runs through the central part of Lithuania, from the Latvian border to the north to the Russian (Kaliningrad Oblast) border to the south west.

The soil is mostly limnoglacial clay with some bottom moraine loam.

Most of the plain falls to the Neman basin (with the Nevėžis, Šešupė, Mituva rivers), northern part falls to the Lielupe basin (the Mūša, Nemunėlis rivers).

Birch, pine, spruce, ash, oak, black alder trees dominate in these forests.

[1] Lithuanian cites Kaunas, Panevėžys, Marijampolė, Kėdainiai, Jonava, Joniškis, Šakiai are located in Central Lithuanian Plain.

Central Lithuanian Plain in the physical map of Lithuania