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
- 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