Northern Europe
Latvia
Republic of Latvia
Core facts
- Capital
- Riga
- Population
- 1,829,000
- Area
- 64,559 km^2
- Country code
- LVA
- Flag emoji
- 🇱🇻
- UN member
- Yes
- Independent
- Yes
- Population density
- 28.3 per km^2
- Calling code
- +371
Culture and society
- Languages
- Latvian
- Religions
- Christianity (74.0%), Unaffiliated (19.0%), Islam (4.0%), Other religions (3.0%)
- Native names
- Latvija
- Demonyms (EN)
- Latvian / Latvian
- Start of week
- monday
- Driving side
- right
- Timezones
- UTC+02:00
- Alternative spellings
- LV, Republic of Latvia, Latvijas Republika
Geography and map
- Continents
- Europe
- Coordinates
- 57.00, 25.00
- Landlocked
- No
- Borders
- BLR, EST, LTU, RUS
- Border countries count
- 4
Economy and identity
- Currencies
- euro (€)
- Top-level domain
- .lv
- FIFA code
- LVA
- Capital coordinates
- 56.95, 24.10
- Postal code format
- LV-####
- Gini index
- 35.1 (2018)
- Coat of arms
