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 largest city in the Baltic States.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Poco a poco, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Popular Destinations
Outer East Bank
Outer East Bank is a part of Riga, here defined as the eastern bank of the Daugava river minus Old Riga and Centrs.Destinations
Pārdaugava
Photo: Guillaume Speurt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pārdaugava, which literally means "over Daugava" or "across the Daugava", is a part of Riga, comprising the west bank of Daugava river.
Notable Places in the Area
National Library of Latvia
Photo: Yeti-Hunter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The National Library of Latvia is a national cultural institution under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture of Latvia.
House of the Black Heads
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The House of the Blackheads is a building situated in the old town of Riga, Latvia.
Arena Riga
Photo: Knospins04, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Arena Riga is an indoor arena in Riga, Latvia. It is primarily used for ice hockey, basketball and concerts.
Localities in the Area
Purvciems
Photo: Levg79, Public domain.
Purvciems is a neighbourhood in the Vidzeme Suburb of Riga, Latvia.
Ziepniekkalns
Ziepniekkalns is a neighborhood of Riga, Latvia. It is located in the Pārdaugava section of Riga close to the city's southern border.Iļģuciems
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Iļģuciems is one of the older neighbourhoods situated in the Pārdaugava side of Riga.
Riga
- Type: City with 699,000 residents
- Description: capital and largest city of Latvia
- Neighbors: Jūrmala
- Categories: state city of Latvia, Hanseatic city, big city, city under state jurisdiction in Latvia and locality
- Location: Riga region, Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.9494° or 56° 56' 58" northLongitude
24.1052° or 24° 6' 19" eastPopulation
699,000Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)IATA airport code
RIXUnited Nations Location Code
LV RIXOpen Location Code
9G86W4X4+Q3OpenStreetMap ID
node 26707967OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
456172Wikidata ID
Q1773Riga Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Riga
- Afar: Riga
- Afrikaans: Riga
- Akan: Riga
- Albanian: Riga
- Amharic: ሪጋ
- Arabic: Riga
- Arabic: ريغا
- Aragonese: Riga
- Armenian: Ռիգա
- Armenian: Ռիկա
- Arpitan: Riga
- Asturian: Riga
- Avaric: Riga
- Avaric: Рига
- Aymara: Riga
- Azerbaijani: Riqa
- Balinese: Riga
- Bashkir: Рига
- Basque: Riga
- Basque: Ryga
- Basque: Rīga
- Bavarian: Riga
- Belarusian: Рыга
- Bengali: রিগা
- Bislama: Riga
- Bosnian: Riga
- Breton: Riga
- Breton: Rīga
- Bulgarian: Рига
- Burmese: ရီဂါမြို့
- Catalan: Riga
- Catalan: Ryga
- Catalan: Rīga
- Cebuano: Riga
- Central Bikol: Riga
- Central Kurdish: ریگا
- Central Kurdish: ڕیگا
- Chechen: Рига
- Chinese: Riga
- 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
- Dutch: Ryga
- Dutch: Rīga
- Eastern Mari: Рига
- Egyptian Arabic: ريجا
- English: Rige
- English: Riia
- English: Rija
- English: Ryga
- English: Rīga
- English: Rīgõ
- Erzya: Рига ош
- Esperanto: Riga
- Esperanto: Rigo
- Esperanto: Ryga
- Esperanto: Rīga
- Estonian: Riia
- Ewe: Riga
- Faroese: Riga
- Fiji Hindi: Riga
- Finnish: Riika
- French: Riga
- French: Ryga
- French: Rīga
- Gagauz: Riga
- Galician: Riga
- Ganda: Riga
- Georgian: რიგა
- German: Riga
- German: Ryga
- German: Rīga
- Greek: Ρίγα
- Gujarati: રીગા
- Haitian: Riga
- Hakka Chinese: Riga
- Hausa: Riga
- Hebrew: ריגה
- Hindi: रिगा
- Hindi: रीगा
- Hungarian: Riga
- Icelandic: Ríga
- Ido: Riga
- Iloko: Riga
- Inari Sami: Riika
- Indonesian: Riga
- Interlingua: Riga
- Interlingue: Riga
- Irish: Ríge
- Italian: Riga
- Italian: Ryga
- Italian: Rīga
- Japanese: リガ
- Javanese: Riga
- Kalaallisut: Riga
- Kannada: ರಿಗಾ
- Kara-Kalpak: Riga
- Kashubian: Riga
- Kazakh: Рига
- Kazakh: Рига қаласы
- Kinyarwanda: Riga
- Kirghiz: Рига
- Komi-Permyak: Рига
- Komi: Рига
- Korean: 리가
- Kotava: Riga
- Kurdish: Rîga
- Ladino: Riga
- Latgalian: Reiga
- Latin: Riga
- Latvian: Rīga
- 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
- Mingrelian: რიგა
- Moksha: Рига
- Mongolian: Рига
- Moroccan Arabic: ريڭا
- Nauru: Riga
- Navajo: Tóntsxaa Biih Yílį́
- Northern Frisian: Riga
- Northern Luri: ریگا
- Northern Sami: Riga
- Norwegian: Riga
- Norwegian Bokmål: Riga
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Riga
- Novial: Riga
- Occitan (post 1500): Riga
- Occitan (post 1500): Ryga
- Occitan (post 1500): Rīga
- 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
- Sardinian: Riga
- Saterfriesisch: Riga
- Scots: Riga
- Scottish Gaelic: Riga
- Serbian: Рига
- Serbo-Croatian: Riga
- Shona: Riga
- Sicilian: Riga
- Silesian: Ryga
- Sinhala: රිගා
- Slovak: Riga
- Slovenian: Riga
- South Azerbaijani: ریقا
- Southern Sotho: Riga
- Spanish: Riga
- Spanish: Ryga
- Spanish: Rīga
- Swahili: Riga
- Swedish: Riga
- Swiss German: Riga
- Tagalog: Riga
- Tajik: Рига
- Talysh: Riqa
- Tamil: ரீகா
- Tatar: Рига
- Telugu: రీగా
- Thai: รีกา
- Tibetan: རི་ག
- Tok Pisin: Riga
- Tosk Albanian: 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
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Riga. Photo: Poco a poco, CC BY-SA 3.0.