Baltic Explained
Baltic may refer to:
Peoples and languages
- Baltic languages, a subfamily of Indo-European languages, including Lithuanian, Latvian and extinct Old Prussian
- Balts (or Baltic peoples), ethnic groups speaking the Baltic languages and/or originating from the Baltic countries
- Baltic Germans, historical ethnic German minority in Latvia and Estonia
- Baltic Finnic peoples, the Finnic peoples historically inhabiting the area on the northeastern side of the Baltic sea
Places
Northern Europe
- Baltic Sea, in Europe
- Baltic region, an ambiguous term referring to the general area surrounding the Baltic Sea
- Baltic states (also Baltic countries, Baltic nations, Baltics), a geopolitical term, currently referring to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
- Baltic Provinces or governorates, former parts of the Swedish Empire and then Russian Empire (in modern Latvia, Estonia)
- Baltic Shield, the exposed Precambrian northwest segment of the East European Craton
- Baltic Plate, an ancient tectonic plate that is now fused onto the Eurasian Plate
North America
Ships and related
Sport
Other uses
See also