Latvia
Latvia (officially Republic of Latvia) is a country in Northern Europe, with its capital at Riga, and is home to roughly 1.9M people.
Latvian is the official language; the currency in circulation is Euro (€); people from here are called Latvian.
> INTEL_
> NOTABLE_
- »More than half the country is forest.
- »Riga has one of the finest collections of Art Nouveau architecture in Europe.
> BORDERS_
Latvia touches four neighbours: Belarus to the southeast, Estonia to the north, Lithuania to the south and Russia to the northeast. Directions run from one centre to the other.
> THE CAPITAL_
Riga has the largest concentration of Art Nouveau architecture in Europe, much of it designed by Mikhail Eisenstein, father of the filmmaker Sergei.
> SCALE_
64,662 km² (24,966 sq mi), 122nd largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Lithuania.
Population 1,866,124, 149th of 198 on file. That averages 29 per km² (75 per sq mi).
> THE FLAG_
One of the oldest flags in the world, recorded in a 13th-century chronicle. The dark carmine red is specific enough to be called Latvian red, said to come from a chieftain's blood-stained sheet.