Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Hanyar wucewa: Klaipėda (German), wani muhimmin tashar jiragen ruwa a Gabashin Prussia, an raba shi daga Jamus ta Mataki na 28 na Yarjejeniyar Versailles kuma Allies sun mallake shi bisa ga Mataki na 99. Faransa ta dauki nauyin gudanar da yankin yayin da Lithuania ta ci gaba da yin gwagwarmaya don ikonta, tana iƙirarin cewa ya kamata ya kasance Lithuania saboda tana da yawan mutanen Lithuania (duba Lithuania Minor) kuma ita ce kawai hanyar wannan ƙasar zuwa Tekun Baltic. Poland kuma ta yi da'awar yankin. Kamar yadda Allies suka yi jinkirin yanke shawara kuma ya zama kamar yankin zai kasance mai 'yanci kamar Free City of Danzig, Lithuania ya ɗauki matakin kuma ya shirya Klaipėda Revolt a watan Janairun 1923. Soviet Rasha da Jamus sun goyi bayan aikin. Yankin, a matsayin yanki mai cin gashin kansa tare da majalisar sa (Majalisar Klaipėda), an haɗa shi da Lithuania. Yankin ya rufe kimanin kilomita 2,400 kuma yana da yawan mutane kimanin 140,000. A cikin shekarun 1920, Lithuania da Jamus sun ci gaba da dangantaka ta al'ada kamar yadda suke da haɗin kai ta hanyar tunanin Poland. A cikin Janairu 1928, bayan doguwar tattaunawa mai wahala, Jamus da Lithuania sun rattaba hannu kan yarjejeniyar kan iyaka, wanda ya bar Klaipėda a gefen Lithuania. Koyaya, tashin hankali ya fara tashi a cikin 1930s bayan an maye gurbin Jamhuriyar Weimar da Nazi Jamus. Wani lokacin tashin hankali musamman ya zo a watan Fabrairun shekara ta 1934 sa'ad da gwamnatin Lithuania ta kama mutane da yawa da suke goyon bayan 'yan Nazi. Dangane da waɗannan kame-kame da shari'o'in, Jamus ta ayyana kaurace wa shigo da kayan aikin gona na Lithuania. Wannan kauracewa ya haifar da rikicin tattalin arziki a Suvalkija (kudancin Lithuania), inda manoma suka shirya zanga-zangar ta'addanci. Duk da haka, bayan zaben a Saar yawancin fursunonin Nazi sun sami gafara. A sakamakon amnesties, martabar Lithuania ta sha wahala a kasashen waje da Klaipėda, wanda ya ba Jamus damar karfafa tasirin ta a yankin.  Tambaya: Yaya girman yankin yake?
2,400 km2