About half the country is forest, and Riga has the finest collection of art nouveau architecture in Europe.
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Latvia
Republic of Latvia ยท Latvija
Europe
ยท Northern Europe
0Population
64.56Kkmยฒ of land
$17.83KGDP / person
RigaCapital
- ISO codes
- LV ยท LVA
- Density
- 30 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Latvian
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Dial code
- +371
- Internet domain
- .lv
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 57.0670ยฐ N, 25.4590ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Latvian
- UN region
- Northern Europe
- Economy
- Developed region: nonG7
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $34.1B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 4
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By the numbers
How Latvia stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
152nd
of 242 ยท 0.02% of world population
Land area
125th
of 242 ยท 0.04% of world land
GDP per person
74th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
177th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Latvia
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 1,912,789 people, the 152nd largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 4,013 of everyone alive.
Covers 64,559 kmยฒ, making it the 125th largest country here - about 7 times the size of Cyprus.
Population density is about 30 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Riga, at 56.95ยฐ N, 24.10ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 742,572.
Shares land borders with 4 countries: Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania and Russia.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Europe/Riga.
The currency is the Euro (EUR, symbol โฌ).
The official language is Latvian.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Europe/Riga
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UTC+03:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Riga
Riga
56.9500ยฐ N, 24.1000ยฐ E
742.57K
Land neighbours
4 countries share a border with Latvia.