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.
- »More than half the country is forest.
- »Riga has one of the finest collections of Art Nouveau architecture in Europe.
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.
Riga has the largest concentration of Art Nouveau architecture in Europe, much of it designed by Mikhail Eisenstein, father of the filmmaker Sergei.
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).
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.