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Latvia

Latvia is one of the three in . The biggest travel destination in the country is the capital , whose Old Town is a World Heritage Site.
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Top destinations include Riga and Latgale.

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is the financial, creative, and cultural centre of Latvia. It is the capital and the largest city in Latvia, it is also the second largest city in the after the capital .

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, also known as Latgalia or Latgallia, is one of the Historical Latvian Lands. It is the easternmost region of the country and lies north of the Daugava River.

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is the second largest city in Latvia, after . It is a delightfully charming, spacious and green city. Despite its quaint atmosphere and low prices, the city offers modern conveniences and services.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Riga region and Vidzeme.

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The on the Baltic Sea sits at the heart of Latvia, and is its political, population, and cultural center.

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is one of the Historical Latvian Lands. The capital of Latvia, , is situated in the southwestern part of the region. Literally meaning "the Middle Land", it is situated in north-central Latvia north of the Daugava River.

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is the westernmost region of Latvia, along the Baltic Sea. The main attraction of this region is the Baltic Sea coast, an end of the world landscape beaten by the winds. The coastal roads allow to appreciate its wonderful landscapes.

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Semigallia is one of the Historical Latvian Lands located to the south of the and to the north of the Saule region of . The territory is split between Latvia and , previously inhabited by the Semigallian Baltic tribe.

Latvia

  • Type: Country with 1,860,000 residents
  • Description: sovereign state in northeastern Europe
  • Also known as: “LAT”, “Latveja”, “Latvejas Republika”, “Latvian Republic”, “Latvija”, “Latvijas Republika”, “Leţmо̄”, “Leţmо̄ Vabāmо̄”, “lv”, “LVA”, and “Republic of Latvia”
  • Historically known as: “Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic”, “Latvijas Padomju Socialistiska Respublika”, and “Latviyskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika”
  • Languages: Latvian, Russian, and Lithuanian
  • Neighbors: , , , , , and
  • Categories: sovereign state, country bordering the Baltic Sea, and locality
  • Location: ,
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Latitude of center
57° north
Longitude of center
25° east
Population
1,860,000
Area
64,589 km² (24,938 miles²)
Elevation
105 metres (344 feet)
Capital
Currency
Euro (EUR)
Phone code
.lv
Internet domain
371
Open­Street­Map ID
node 432425019
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
458258
Wiki­data ID
Q211
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Latvia” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Латвиа”
  • Achinese: “Latvia”
  • Adyghe: “Латвие”
  • Afrikaans: “Letland”
  • Akan: “Latvia”
  • Albanian: “Letoni”
  • Albanian: “Letonia”
  • Amharic: “ላትቪያ”
  • Amis: “Latvia”
  • Angika: “लाट्विया”
  • Arabic: “بلتفيا”
  • Arabic: “جيلغافا”
  • Arabic: “داوغافبلس”
  • Arabic: “داوغالفس”
  • Arabic: “لاتفي”
  • Arabic: “لاتفيا”
  • Arabic: “لاتيفيا”
  • Arabic: “لتفيا”
  • Aragonese: “Letonia”
  • Armenian: “Լատվիա”
  • Arpitan: “Lètonia”
  • Arpitan: “Lètonie”
  • Assamese: “লাটভিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Letonia”
  • Atayal: “Latvia”
  • Avaric: “Латвия”
  • Awadhi: “लातविया”
  • Azerbaijani: “Latviya”
  • Balinese: “Latvia”
  • Bambara: “Letoni”
  • Bashkir: “Латвия”
  • Basque: “Letonia”
  • Bavarian: “Lettland”
  • Belarusian: “Латвія”
  • Bengali: “লাতভিয়া”
  • Bengali: “লাত্ভিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Lètlan”
  • Bhojpuri: “लातविया”
  • Bhojpuri: “लातवीया”
  • Bhojpuri: “लैटविया”
  • Bishnupriya: “লাতভিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Latvia”
  • Bosnian: “Latvija”
  • Bosnian: “Letonija”
  • Breton: “Latvia”
  • Bulgarian: “Латвия”
  • Bulgarian: “Република Латвия”
  • Burmese: “လတ်ဗီးယား”
  • Burmese: “လတ်ဗီယာနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Letònia”
  • Cebuano: “Latvia”
  • Cebuano: “Latwiya”
  • Central Bikol: “Latbya”
  • Central Kurdish: “لاتڤیا”
  • Chamorro: “Letonia”
  • Chavacano: “Letonia”
  • Chechen: “Латви”
  • Cherokee: “ᎳᏘᏫᎠ”
  • Chinese: “Lātuōwéiyà”
  • Chinese: “Latvia”
  • Chinese: “拉脫維亞”
  • Chinese: “拉脱维亚 / 拉脫維亞”
  • Chinese: “拉脱维亚”
  • Church Slavic: “Латвїꙗ”
  • Chuvash: “Латви”
  • Cornish: “Latvi”
  • Corsican: “Lettonia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Latviya”
  • Croatian: “Latvija”
  • Croatian: “Letonija”
  • Czech: “Lotyšsko”
  • Dagbani: “Latvia”
  • Danish: “Letland”
  • Dhivehi: “ލެޓުވިއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Letonya”
  • Dotyali: “लात्भिया”
  • Dutch: “Letland”
  • Dutch: “LV”
  • Dutch: “LVA”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Letland”
  • Dzongkha: “ལཊ་བི་ཡ”
  • Dzongkha: “ལེཊི་བི་ཡ།”
  • Dzongkha: “ལེཊི་བི་ཡ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Латвий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لاتفيا”
  • Erzya: “Латвия Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Latvio”
  • Esperanto: “Latvujo”
  • Esperanto: “LV”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Latvio”
  • Estonian: “Läti Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Läti”
  • Ewe: “Latvia nutome”
  • Ewe: “Latvia”
  • Extremaduran: “Letoña”
  • Extremaduran: “Letónia”
  • Faroese: “Lettland”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Latvia”
  • Finnish: “Latvia”
  • French: “la République de Lettonie”
  • French: “Lettonie”
  • French: “LV”
  • Friulian: “Letonie”
  • Fulah: “Latvia”
  • Fulah: “Letonii”
  • Gagauz: “Latviya”
  • Galician: “Letonia”
  • Ganda: “Lativya”
  • Ganda: “Latvia”
  • Georgian: “ლატვია”
  • German: “Lettland”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Latvia”
  • Gilaki: “لتؤني”
  • Goan Konkani: “Latvia”
  • Goan Konkani: “लाटविया”
  • Gothic: “𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳”
  • Greek: “Λετονία”
  • Greek: “Λεττονία”
  • Guarani: “Letóña Tavakuairetã”
  • Guarani: “Letoña”
  • Guarani: “Letóña”
  • Guarani: “Letonia”
  • Guarani: “Letónia”
  • Guarani: “Tetã Letóña”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Létoni”
  • Gujarati: “લાટવિયા”
  • Gujarati: “લાત્વિયા”
  • Haitian: “Letoni”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Latvia”
  • Hausa: “Laitfiya”
  • Hausa: “Litibiya”
  • Hawaiian: “Lakawia”
  • Hebrew: “לאטביה”
  • Hebrew: “לטביה”
  • Hindi: “लाटविया”
  • Hindi: “लातविया”
  • Hindi: “लात्विया”
  • Hungarian: “Lett Köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Lettország”
  • Icelandic: “Lettland”
  • Ido: “Latvia”
  • Igbo: “Latvia”
  • Iloko: “Letonia”
  • Inari Sami: “Latvia täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Latvia”
  • Indonesian: “Latvia”
  • Interlingua: “Latvia”
  • Interlingua: “Lettonia”
  • Interlingua: “Republica de Latvia”
  • Interlingua: “Republica de Lettonia”
  • Interlingue: “Latvia”
  • Irish: “an Laitvia”
  • Irish: “An Laitvia”
  • Italian: “Lettonia”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Latvia”
  • Japanese: “ラトビア”
  • Japanese: “ラトビア共和国”
  • Javanese: “Latvia”
  • Javanese: “Lètlan”
  • Kabardian: “Латвиэ”
  • Kabiyè: “Lɛtonii”
  • Kabyle: “Latvya”
  • Kabyle: “Liṭṭunya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Letlandi”
  • Kalmyk: “Латдин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಲಾಟ್ವಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಲಾಟ್ವಿಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಲಾತ್ವಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಲ್ಯಾಟ್ವಿಯ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Latviya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Латвия”
  • Kashmiri: “لیٹوِیا”
  • Kashubian: “Łotewskô”
  • Kashubian: “Łotwa”
  • Kazakh: “Латвия”
  • Khmer: “សាធារណរដ្ឋឡេតូនី”
  • Khmer: “ឡាតវី”
  • Khmer: “ឡេតូញ៉ា”
  • Khmer: “ឡេតូនី”
  • Kikuyu: “Lativia”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Lativiya”
  • Kirghiz: “Латвия”
  • Komering: “Latvia”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Латвия”
  • Komi: “Латвия”
  • Kongo: “Latvia”
  • Korean: “라뜨비야”
  • Korean: “라트비아 공화국”
  • Korean: “라트비아”
  • Kotava: “Latvia”
  • Kurdish: “Letonya”
  • Kurdish: “لاتڤیا”
  • Ladin: “Letonia”
  • Ladino: “Letonia”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດລັດເວຍ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດແລດໂຕນີ”
  • Lao: “ລັດເວຍ”
  • Latgalian: “Latveja”
  • Latin: “Lettonia”
  • Latvian: “LAT”
  • Latvian: “Latvija”
  • Latvian: “Latvijas Republika”
  • Latvian: “LVA”
  • Lezghian: “Латвия”
  • Ligurian: “Letònia”
  • Ligurian: “Lettònnia”
  • Limburgan: “Letland”
  • Lingala: “Letoni”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Latvia”
  • Literary Chinese: “拉脫維亞”
  • Lithuanian: “Latvija”
  • Liv: “Leţmō”
  • Livvi: “Latvii”
  • Lombard: “Latvia”
  • Lombard: “Letonia”
  • Low German: “Letlaand”
  • Low German: “Lettland”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Letiska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Letoni”
  • Luxembourgish: “Lettland”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Letonia”
  • Macedonian: “Латвија”
  • Madurese: “Latvia”
  • Maithili: “लैटविया”
  • Malagasy: “Latvia”
  • Malagasy: “Letonia”
  • Malagasy: “Letônia”
  • Malay: “Latvia”
  • Malay: “لتۏيا”
  • Malayalam: “ലാത്വിയ”
  • Malayalam: “ലാത്‌വിയ”
  • Malayalam: “ലാറ്റ്വിയ”
  • Maltese: “il-Latvja”
  • Maltese: “Latvja”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Latvja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯂꯦꯠꯚꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “y Latvey”
  • Manx: “Yn Latvey”
  • Maori: “Rāwhia”
  • Marathi: “लाटव्हिया”
  • Marathi: “लात्व्हिया”
  • Mazanderani: “لاتویا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Latvia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Latvia”
  • Minangkabau: “Latvia”
  • Mingrelian: “ლატვია”
  • Mirandese: “Lhetónia”
  • Moksha: “Латвия мастор”
  • Moksha: “Латвия”
  • Moksha: “Латвиянь Республикась”
  • Mongolian: “Латви”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لاتڤيا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ليتونيا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ليطونيا”
  • Narom: “Lettonnie”
  • Nauru: “Ratebiya”
  • Navajo: “Dahńdzílgaiʼnii Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “लाट्भिया”
  • Nepali: “लात्भिया”
  • Newari: “लात्भिया”
  • North Ndebele: “Latvia”
  • Northern Frisian: “Letlönj”
  • Northern Frisian: “Letlun”
  • Northern Luri: “لاتویا”
  • Northern Sami: “Latvia dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Latvia”
  • Northern Sami: “Látvia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Latvia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lettland”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Latvia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Latvia”
  • Norwegian: “Latvia”
  • Novial: “Latvia”
  • Obolo: “Lativia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Letònia”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܠܐܛܒܝܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lettland”
  • Oriya: “ଲାଟଭିଆ”
  • Oromo: “Laativiyaa”
  • Ossetian: “Латви”
  • Pa'o Karen: “လတ်ဗီယာခမ်းထီ”
  • Pali: “लाट्विया”
  • Pampanga: “Latvia”
  • Pampanga: “Letonia”
  • Pampanga: “Letonya”
  • Pangasinan: “Latbia”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਾਤਵੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Letonia”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Lettlond”
  • Persian: “جمهوری لتونی”
  • Persian: “لاتویا”
  • Persian: “لتونی”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Lettlond”
  • Picard: “Létonie”
  • Piemontese: “Letònia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Latwya”
  • Polish: “Łotwa”
  • Pontic: “Λετονία”
  • Pontic: “Λεττονία”
  • Portuguese: “Letonia”
  • Portuguese: “Letónia”
  • Portuguese: “Letônia”
  • Portuguese: “Republica da Letonia”
  • Portuguese: “República da Letónia”
  • Portuguese: “República da Letônia”
  • Prussian: “Lattawa”
  • Prussian: “lv”
  • Pushto: “لاتويا”
  • Pushto: “ليتهويا”
  • Quechua: “Letonia”
  • Quechua: “Lituniya”
  • Quechua: “Litunya”
  • Romanian: “Letonia”
  • Romanian: “Republica Letonia”
  • Romanian: “Летония”
  • Romansh: “Lettonia”
  • Rundi: “Lativa”
  • Russia Buriat: “Латви”
  • Russian: “Latvija”
  • Russian: “Латвийская Республика”
  • Russian: “Латвия”
  • Russian: “Республика Латвия”
  • Rusyn: “Латвія”
  • Sakizaya: “Latvia”
  • Samoan: “Lativia”
  • Samoan: “Ripapelika o Lativia”
  • Samogitian: “Latvėjė”
  • Sango: “Letonùii”
  • Sanskrit: “लाट्विया”
  • Santali: “ᱞᱟᱛᱵᱷᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Letònia”
  • Sardinian: “Lettonia”
  • Sassarese Sardinian: “Lettònia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Lätlound”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Letlound”
  • Scots: “Latvie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Laitbhe”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Laitbhia”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Latbhia”
  • Serbian: “Letonija”
  • Serbian: “Летонија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Latvija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Letonija”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းလၢတ်ႈဝီႇယႃႇ”
  • Shona: “Latvia”
  • Shona: “Rativhiya”
  • Sicilian: “Lettunia”
  • Silesian: “Łotwa”
  • Sindhi: “لاتويا”
  • Sindhi: “ليٽويا”
  • Sinhala: “ලැට්වියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Latvia tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Latvia”
  • Slovak: “Lotyšská republika”
  • Slovak: “Lotyšsko”
  • Slovenian: “Latvija”
  • Slovenian: “Letonija”
  • Slovenian: “lv”
  • Slovenian: “LVA”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Latvija”
  • Somali: “Latfiya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لتونی”
  • Southern Sami: “Lettlaante”
  • Southern Sotho: “Latvia”
  • Spanish: “Letonia”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Letonia”
  • Spanish: “República de Letonia”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Letlenikondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵍⴰⵜⴼⵢⴰ”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵍⴰⵟⴼⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Latvia”
  • Swahili: “Lativia”
  • Swahili: “Latvia”
  • Swati: “ILathiviya”
  • Swedish: “Latvia”
  • Swedish: “Latvija”
  • Swedish: “Lettland”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Lettland”
  • Swiss German: “Lettland”
  • Tagalog: “Latbiya”
  • Tagalog: “Latvia”
  • Tagalog: “Letonya”
  • Tajik: “Латвия”
  • Talysh: “Latvijə”
  • Talysh: “Latviyə”
  • Tamil: “லாட்வியா”
  • Tamil: “லாத்வியா”
  • Taroko: “Latvia”
  • Tatar: “Latviä”
  • Tatar: “Латвия”
  • Telugu: “లాట్వియా”
  • Telugu: “లాత్వియా”
  • Tetum: “Letónia”
  • Thai: “ประเทศลัตเวีย”
  • Thai: “ลัตเวีย”
  • Thai: “ลัทเวีย”
  • Tibetan: “ལ་ཊ་ཝིཡ།”
  • Tibetan: “ལཏ་བི་ཡ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ላትቪያ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Latvia”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Lativia”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Lettland”
  • Tsonga: “Latvia”
  • Tumbuka: “Latvia”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “لاتڥيا”
  • Turkish: “Letonya”
  • Turkmen: “Latwiýa”
  • Twi: “Latvia”
  • Udmurt: “Латвия”
  • Uighur: “لاتۋىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Латвія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Letiska”
  • Urdu: “لٹویا”
  • Uzbek: “Latviya”
  • Venetian: “Letònia”
  • Venetian: “Łetònia”
  • Veps: “Lätänma”
  • Veps: “Lätänman Tazovaldkund”
  • Veps: “Latvii”
  • Veps: “Latvijan Tazovaldkund”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Latvia”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Latvia”
  • Vietnamese: “Lát-vi-a”
  • Vietnamese: “Latvia”
  • Vlaams: “Letland”
  • Vlax Romani: “Latviya”
  • Volapük: “Latviyän”
  • Võro: “Läti”
  • Walloon: “Letoneye”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Letonia”
  • Welsh: “Gweriniaeth Latfia”
  • Welsh: “Latfia”
  • Western Armenian: “Լաթվիա”
  • Western Balochi: “لاتویا”
  • Western Frisian: “Letlân”
  • Western Mari: “Латви”
  • Western Panjabi: “لیٹویا”
  • Wolof: “Letoni”
  • Wolof: “Letóoni”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉脱维亚”
  • Yakut: “Латвия”
  • Yiddish: “לעטלאנד”
  • Yiddish: “לעטלאַנד”
  • Yoruba: “Látfíà”
  • Yoruba: “Latifia”
  • Yue Chinese: “拉脫維亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Letland”
  • Zhuang: “Latvia”
  • Zulu: “i-Latvia”
  • Zulu: “ILatviya”
  • “LAT”
  • “Läti”
  • “Latvėjė”
  • “Latvia”
  • “Letonia”
  • “Lettògna”
  • “Lettonie”
  • “LV”
  • “LVA”
  • “ma Lawi”
  • “Летония”
  • “लैटविया”

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