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Latvia

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Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It borders Russia to the east and Belarus to the southeast and shares a maritime border with Sweden to the west. Latvia covers an area of 64,573 km2 (24,932 sq mi), with a population of 1.83 million. The country has a temperate seasonal climate. Its capital and largest city is Riga. Latvians, who are the titular nation and comprise 65.5% of the country's population, belong to the ethnolinguistic group of the Balts and speak Latvian. Russians are the most prominent minority in the country, at almost a quarter of the population; 37.7% of the population speak Russian as their native tongue.

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People are called
Latvian
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+371
Capital
Riga
Population
1,845,096
Area
61,760 km2
Climate
Temperate
Government
Parliamentary republic
Currency
Euro
Languages
Latvian 56.3%, Russian 33.8%
Sells
wood, wheat, broadcasting equipment, packaged medicine
Sells to
Lithuania 19%, Estonia 6%, Russia 6%
Land borders
4: Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Russia
Drives on the
right
Calling code
+371
Founded
1918
Hemisphere
Northern

WHAT PEOPLE ARE CALLED

Latvian

These are English demonyms for people from Latvia. A demonym describes a connection to a place; it does not mean everyone shares an ethnicity, language or religion.

Demonym source: mledoze/countries · Download the attributed dataset (ODbL)

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SAME LAND, DIFFERENT WORLDS

Civilizations, flags & standards

Modern borders are a starting point for exploring the past. These cultures and states occupied some of the same land; they were not the same country. Dates describe each civilization or state as a whole, not continuous rule over every place listed.

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Turning points

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Religion: state & society

An official religion is a legal status. The largest religious group is a population measure. Neither describes every person's beliefs.

Official status and a dated affiliation breakdown have not been checked for this country. The atlas's religion tags are not a population ranking.

BEYOND THE MAP

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Where it is

Languages

Share of the population that speaks each. Click one to see every country that speaks it.

Latvianofficial
56.3%
33.8%

Largest cities

Riga  capital 742,572
Daugavpils 78,126
Liepāja 67,421
Jelgava 54,834
Jūrmala 52,001

Wars and conflicts

Conflicts this country is attached to. Click one to see the others. Each says what kind of claim it is: a principal belligerent is hand-checked against the modern state that succeeded the power that fought, while a recorded participant comes from the bulk import, which does not separate combat from funding, basing, occupation or reconstruction. Neither list is complete, so a country missing from a war may still have taken part — which is why the quiz no longer asks who fought in what.

Form of government

Parliamentary republic.

Climate and geography

maritime; wet, moderate winters

Climate zone

Highest point

Northern hemisphere.

Figures from its history

Karlis Ulmanis
Karlis Ulmanis Interwar leader Kārlis Augusts Vilhelms Ulmanis was a Latvian politician and dictator.
Vaira Vike-Freiberga
Vaira Vike-Freiberga President, 1999-2007 Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga is a Latvian politician who served as the sixth president of Latvia from 1999 to 2007.

Checked facts

Most of this page is imported in bulk and carries no source of its own. These entries were checked by hand against the source named, and are reapplied after every dataset rebuild so a refetch cannot quietly put the old value back.

  • Member of european union — Full member states only, as the organisation itself lists them.
    The imported member_of list is out of date for this organisation and is not asked about.
    Source · true as of 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-11
  • Member of nato — Full member states only, as the organisation itself lists them.
    The imported member_of list is out of date for this organisation and is not asked about.
    Source · true as of 2026-09-11 · checked 2026-09-11

Corrected in an AI-assisted review of the imported data (2026-09-22), not yet checked against a named source: currencies.