Latvia
Latvia is one of the three Baltic states in Europe. The biggest travel destination in the country is the capital Riga, whose Old Town is a World Heritage Site.Tap on the map to travel |
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Riga
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Riga is the financial, creative, and cultural centre of Latvia.
Destinations
Riga region
The Riga region on the Baltic Sea sits at the heart of Latvia, and is its political, population, and cultural center.Vidzeme
Vidzeme is one of the Historical Latvian Lands. The capital of Latvia, Riga, is situated in the southwestern part of the region.Kurzeme
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Courland is one of the Historical Latvian Lands in western Latvia.
Zemgale
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Zemgale is the southernmost region in Latvia, along the border with Lithuania.
Latvia
- Type: Country with 2,030,000 residents
- Description: sovereign state in northeastern Europe
- Languages: Latvian, Russian and Lithuanian
- Neighbors: Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden
- Categories: sovereign state, country bordering the Baltic Sea, OECD country and locality
- Location: Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude of centre
57° northLongitude of centre
25° eastPopulation
2,030,000Area
64,589 km² (24,938 miles²)Elevation
105 metres (344 feet)Capital
RigaCurrency
Euro (EUR)Phone code
.lvInternet domain
371OpenStreetMap ID
node 432425019OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
458258Wikidata ID
Q211Latvia Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Latvya
- Abkhazian: Латвиа
- Achinese: Latvia
- Adyghe: Латвие
- Afar: Latviya
- Afrikaans: Letland
- Akan: Latvia
- Albanian: Letoni
- Albanian: Letonia
- Amharic: Latvia
- Amharic: ላትቪያ
- Amis: Latvia
- Angika: लाट्विया
- Arabic: Letonia
- Arabic: بلتفيا
- Arabic: جيلغافا
- Arabic: داوغافبلس
- Arabic: داوغالفس
- Arabic: لاتفي
- Arabic: لاتفيا
- Arabic: لاتيفيا
- Arabic: لتفيا
- Aragonese: Letonia
- Armenian: Լաթվիա
- Armenian: Լատվիա
- Arpitan: Lètonia
- Arpitan: Lètonie
- Assamese: লাটভিয়া
- Asturian: Letonia
- Avaric: Latvia
- Avaric: Латвия
- Awadhi: लातविया
- Azerbaijani: Latviya
- Balinese: Latvia
- Bambara: Letoni
- Bashkir: Латвия
- Basque: Letonia
- Bavarian: Lettland
- Belarusian: Латвія
- Bengali: লাতভিয়া
- Bengali: লাত্ভিয়া
- Bhojpuri: लातविया
- Bhojpuri: लातवीया
- Bhojpuri: लैटविया
- Bishnupriya: লাতভিয়া
- Bislama: Latvia
- Bosnian: Latvija
- Bosnian: Letonija
- Breton: Latvia
- Bulgarian: Латвия
- Bulgarian: Република Латвия
- Burmese: လတ်ဗီယာနိုင်ငံ
- Burmese: လတ်ဗီးယား
- Catalan: Letònia
- Cebuano: Latvia
- Cebuano: Latwiya
- Central Bikol: Latbya
- Central Kurdish: لاتڤیا
- Chamorro: Letonia
- Chavacano: Letonia
- Chechen: Латви
- Cherokee: ᎳᏘᏫᎠ
- Chinese: Latvia
- Chinese: Lātuōwéiyà
- 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: LV
- Dutch: LVA
- Dutch: Letland
- Dzongkha: ལཊ་བི་ཡ
- Dzongkha: ལེཊི་བི་ཡ
- Dzongkha: ལེཊི་བི་ཡ།
- Eastern Mari: Латвий
- Egyptian Arabic: لاتفيا
- English: LAT
- English: LVA
- English: Latveja
- English: Latvejas Republika
- English: Latvian Republic
- English: Latvija
- English: Latvijas Republika
- English: Leţmо̄
- English: Leţmо̄ Vabāmо̄
- English: Republic of Latvia
- English: lv
- Erzya: Латвия Мастор
- Esperanto: LV
- Esperanto: Latvio
- Esperanto: Latvujo
- Esperanto: Respubliko Latvio
- Estonian: Läti
- Estonian: Läti Vabariik
- Ewe: Latvia
- Ewe: Latvia nutome
- Extremaduran: Letonia
- Extremaduran: Letónia
- Faroese: Lettland
- Fiji Hindi: Latvia
- Finnish: Latvia
- French: LV
- French: Lettonie
- French: la République de Lettonie
- Friulian: Letonie
- Fulah: Latvia
- Fulah: Letonii
- Gagauz: Latviya
- Galician: Letonia - Latvija
- Galician: Letonia
- Ganda: Lativya
- Ganda: Latvia
- Georgian: ლატვია
- German: Lettland
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Latvia
- Goan Konkani: Latvia
- Goan Konkani: लाटविया
- Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳
- Greek: Λετονία
- Greek: Λεττονία
- Guarani: Letoña
- Guarani: Letóña
- Guianese Creole French: Létoni
- Gujarati: લાટવિયા
- Gujarati: લાત્વિયા
- Haitian: Letoni
- Hakka Chinese: Latvia
- Hausa: Laitfiya
- Hausa: Lakawia
- Hausa: Latvia
- 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
- Inari Sami: Latvia täsiväldi
- 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: 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: ឡេតូនី
- Kikuyu: Lativia
- Kinyarwanda: Lativiya
- Kirghiz: Латвия
- Komi-Permyak: Латвия
- Komi: Латвия
- Kongo: Latvia
- Korean: 라뜨비야
- Korean: 라트비아
- Korean: 라트비아 공화국
- Kotava: Latvia
- Kurdish: Letonya
- Kurdish: لاتڤیا
- Ladin: Letonia
- Ladino: Letonia
- Lao: Letonia
- Lao: ປະເທດລັດເວຍ
- Lao: ປະເທດແລດໂຕນີ
- Lao: ລັດເວຍ
- Latgalian: Latveja
- Latin: Lettonia
- Latvian: LAT
- Latvian: LVA
- Latvian: Latvija
- Latvian: Latvijas Republika
- Lezghian: Латвия
- Ligurian: Lettònnia
- Ligurian: Letònia
- 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: Latvja
- Maltese: Repubblika tal-Latvja
- Maltese: il-Latvja
- Manipuri: ꯂꯦꯠꯚꯤꯌꯥ
- 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
- Moksha: Латвия мастор
- Moksha: Латвиянь Республикась
- Mongolian: Латви
- Mongolian: ꯂꯦꯠꯚꯤꯌꯥ
- Moroccan Arabic: لاتڤيا
- Moroccan Arabic: ليتونيا
- Narom: Lettonnie
- Nauru: Ratebiya
- Navajo: Dahńdzílgaiʼnii Bikéyah
- Nepali: लाट्भिया
- Nepali: लात्भिया
- Newari: लात्भिया
- North Ndebele: Latvia
- Northern Frisian: Letlun
- Northern Frisian: Letlönj
- Northern Luri: لاتویا
- Northern Sami: Latvia
- Northern Sami: Latvia dásseváldi
- Northern Sami: Látvia
- Norwegian: Latvia
- Norwegian Bokmål: Latvia
- Norwegian Bokmål: Lettland
- Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken Latvia
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Latvia
- Novial: Latvia
- Occitan (post 1500): Letònia
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܠܐܛܒܝܐ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Lettland
- Oriya: ଲାଟଭିଆ
- Oromo: Laativiyaa
- Ossetian: Латви
- Pali: लाट्विया
- Pampanga: Latvia
- Pampanga: Letonia
- Pampanga: Letonya
- Pangasinan: Latbia
- Panjabi: ਲਾਤਵੀਆ
- Papiamento: Letonia
- Pennsylvania German: Lettlond
- Persian: جمهوری لتونی
- Persian: لاتویا
- Persian: لتونی
- 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
- Pushto: لاتویا
- Pushto: لتويا
- Pushto: ليتهويا
- Quechua: Letonia
- Quechua: Lituniya
- Quechua: Litunya
- Romanian: 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: Lettonia
- Sardinian: Letònia
- Saterfriesisch: Letlound
- Saterfriesisch: Lätlound
- 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
- Sinhala: ලැට්වියාව
- Skolt Sami: Latvia
- Skolt Sami: Latvia tääʹssväʹldd
- Slovak: Lotyšsko
- Slovak: Lotyšská republika
- Slovenian: Latvija
- Slovenian: Letonija
- Somali: Latfiya
- South Azerbaijani: لتونی
- Southern Sami: Lettlaante
- Southern Sotho: Latvia
- Spanish: Letonia
- Spanish: Republica de Letonia
- Spanish: República de Letonia
- Sranan Tongo: Letlenikondre
- 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: 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: Latvii
- Veps: Latvijan Tazovaldkund
- Veps: Lätänma
- Veps: Lätänman Tazovaldkund
- Vietnamese: Cộng hòa Latvia
- Vietnamese: Latvia
- Vietnamese: Lát-vi-a
- 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: לעטלאַנד
- Yiddish: לעטלאנד
- Yoruba: Latifia
- Yoruba: Látfíà
- Yue Chinese: 拉脫維亞
- Zeeuws: Letland
- Zhuang: Latvia
- Zulu: ILatviya
- Zulu: i-Latvia
- Historic: Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Historic: Latvijas Padomju Socialistiska Respublika
- Historic: Latviyskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika
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