Riga
Riga 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 Baltic States after the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Vecrīga and Centrs.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Pārdaugava.
Places of Interest
Highlights include House of the Black Heads and Riga Cathedral.
St. Peter’s Church
St. Peter's Church is a Lutheran church in Riga, the capital of Latvia, dedicated to Saint Peter.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Iļģuciems and Avoti.
Iļģuciems
Iļģuciems is one of the older neighbourhoods situated in the Pārdaugava side of Riga.
Riga
- City with about 589,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (20 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code RIX
- Description: capital and largest city of Latvia
- Also known as“Rige”“Rīgõ”“Riia”“Rija”
- Neighbors: Jūrmala
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Latitude
56.9494° or 56° 56′ 58″ north
Longitude
24.1052° or 24° 6′ 19″ east
UN/LOCODE
LV RIX
Open location code
9G86W4X4+Q3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Riga” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Riga”
- Afrikaans: “Riga”
- Albanian: “Riga”
- Amharic: “ሪጋ”
- Arabic: “ريغا”
- Aragonese: “Riga”
- Armenian: “Ռիգա”
- Arpitan: “Riga”
- Asturian: “Riga”
- Avaric: “Рига”
- Aymara: “Riga”
- Azerbaijani: “Riqa”
- Balinese: “Riga”
- Bashkir: “Рига”
- Basque: “Riga”
- Bavarian: “Riga”
- Belarusian: “Рыга”
- Bengali: “রিগা”
- Betawi: “Rigah”
- Bislama: “Riga”
- Bosnian: “Riga”
- Breton: “Rīga”
- Bulgarian: “Рига”
- Burmese: “ရီဂါမြို့”
- Catalan: “Riga”
- Cebuano: “Riga”
- Central Bikol: “Riga”
- Central Kurdish: “ریگا”
- Central Kurdish: “ڕیگا”
- Chechen: “Рига”
- Chinese: “裏加”
- Chinese: “里加”
- Church Slavic: “Рига”
- Chuvash: “Рига”
- Cornish: “Rīga”
- Crimean Tatar: “Riga”
- Croatian: “Riga”
- Czech: “Riga”
- Dagbani: “Riga”
- Danish: “Riga”
- Dimli (individual language): “Riga”
- Dutch: “Riga”
- Eastern Mari: “Рига”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ريجا”
- Erzya: “Рига ош”
- Esperanto: “Rigo”
- Estonian: “Riia”
- Ewe: “Riga”
- Extremaduran: “Riga”
- Faroese: “Riga”
- Fiji Hindi: “Riga”
- Finnish: “Riika”
- French: “Rīga”
- Gagauz: “Riga”
- Galician: “Riga”
- Ganda: “Riga”
- Georgian: “რიგა”
- German: “Riga”
- Greek: “Ρίγα”
- Gujarati: “રીગા”
- Haitian: “Riga”
- Hakka Chinese: “Riga”
- Hausa: “Riga”
- Hebrew: “ריגה”
- Hindi: “रीगा”
- Hungarian: “Riga”
- Icelandic: “Ríga”
- Ido: “Rīga”
- Iloko: “Riga”
- Inari Sami: “Riika”
- Indonesian: “Riga”
- Interlingua: “Riga”
- Interlingue: “Riga”
- Irish: “Ríge”
- Italian: “Riga”
- Japanese: “リーガ”
- Japanese: “リガ”
- Javanese: “Riga”
- Kalaallisut: “Riga”
- Kannada: “ರಿಗಾ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Riga”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Рига”
- Kashubian: “Riga”
- Kazakh: “Рига қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Рига”
- Kinyarwanda: “Riga”
- Kirghiz: “Рига”
- Komering: “Riga”
- Komi-Permyak: “Рига”
- Komi: “Рига”
- Korean: “리가”
- Kotava: “Riga”
- Kurdish: “Rîga”
- Ladino: “Riga”
- Latgalian: “Reiga”
- Latin: “Riga”
- Latvian: “Rīga”
- Latvian: “Rīgas valstspilsēta”
- Latvian: “Rīgõ”
- Lezghian: “Рига”
- Ligurian: “Riga”
- Ligurian: “Rigg-a”
- Limburgan: “Riga”
- Lingala: “Riga”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Riga”
- Literary Chinese: “里加”
- Lithuanian: “Ryga”
- Livvi: “Riga”
- Lombard: “Riga”
- Low German: “Riga”
- Lower Sorbian: “Riga”
- Luxembourgish: “Rīga”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Riga”
- Macedonian: “Рига”
- Malagasy: “Riga”
- Malay: “Riga”
- Malayalam: “റിഗ”
- Maltese: “Riga”
- Manx: “Rīga”
- Maori: “Riga”
- Marathi: “रिगा”
- Mazanderani: “ریگا”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Riga”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Riga”
- Minangkabau: “Riga”
- Mingrelian: “რიგა”
- Moksha: “Рига”
- Mongolian: “Рига”
- Moroccan Arabic: “ريڭا”
- Moroccan Arabic: “ريݣا”
- Nauru: “Riga”
- Navajo: “Tóntsxaa Biih Yílį́”
- Northern Frisian: “Riga”
- Northern Luri: “ریگا”
- Northern Sami: “Riga”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Riga”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Riga”
- Norwegian: “Riga”
- Novial: “Riga”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Riga”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Riga”
- Ossetian: “Ригæ”
- Panjabi: “ਰੀਗਾ”
- Papiamento: “Riga”
- Persian: “ریگا”
- Piemontese: “Riga”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Riigaa”
- Polish: “Ryga”
- Portuguese: “Riga”
- Pushto: “ریګا”
- Quechua: “Riga”
- Romanian: “Riga”
- Romanian: “Рига”
- Romansh: “Riga”
- Russian: “Рига”
- Rusyn: “Ріґа”
- Samogitian: “Rīga”
- Samogitian: “Rīnga”
- Sardinian: “Riga”
- Saterfriesisch: “Riga”
- Scots: “Riga”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Riga”
- Serbian: “Рига”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Riga”
- Shona: “Riga”
- Sicilian: “Riga”
- Silesian: “Ryga”
- Sindhi: “ريگا”
- Sinhala: “රිගා”
- Slovak: “Riga”
- Slovenian: “Riga”
- South Azerbaijani: “ریقا”
- Southern Sotho: “Riga”
- Spanish: “Riga”
- Swahili: “Riga”
- Swedish: “Riga”
- Swiss German: “Riga”
- Tagalog: “Riga”
- Tajik: “Рига”
- Talysh: “Riga”
- Talysh: “Riqa”
- Tamil: “ரீகா”
- Tatar: “Рига”
- Telugu: “రీగా”
- Thai: “รีกา”
- Tibetan: “རི་ག”
- Tok Pisin: “Riga”
- Tumbuka: “Riga”
- Turkish: “Riga”
- Turkmen: “Riga”
- Twi: “Riga”
- Udmurt: “Рига”
- Uighur: “رىگا”
- Ukrainian: “Рига”
- Upper Sorbian: “Riga”
- Urdu: “ریگا”
- Uzbek: “Riga”
- Venetian: “Riga”
- Veps: “Rig”
- Vietnamese: “Riga”
- Vlaams: “Riga”
- Vlax Romani: “Riga”
- Volapük: “Rīga”
- Võro: “Riia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Riga”
- Welsh: “Riga”
- Western Armenian: “Ռիկա”
- Western Frisian: “Riga”
- Western Mari: “Рига”
- Western Panjabi: “ریگا”
- Wolof: “Riga”
- Wu Chinese: “里加”
- Yakut: “Рига”
- Yiddish: “Rige”
- Yiddish: “ריגע”
- Yoruba: “Riga”
- Yue Chinese: “里加”
- Zeeuws: “Riga”
- Zulu: “IRiga”
- “ma tomo Lika”
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
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