🇱🇻 Latvia
Time, holidays, currency and practical info for Latvia.
Current time in Latvia
Europe/Riga · GMT+2 · observes DST
Time zones in Latvia
Upcoming public holidays in Latvia
Other countries in Northern Europe
At a glance
- Capital
- —
- Region
- Europe
- Subregion
- Northern Europe
- Population
- 1,829,000
- Area
- 64,559 km²
- Currency
- EUR €
- Calling code
- +371
- Driving side
- right
- Languages
- lav
- Internet TLD
- .lv
About
Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It borders Russia to the east and Belarus to the southeast and shares a maritime border with Sweden to the west. Latvia covers an area of 64,573 km2 (24,932 sq mi), with a population of 1.83 million. The country has a temperate seasonal climate. Its capital and largest city is Riga. Latvians, who are the titular nation and comprise 65.5% of the country's population, belong to the ethnolinguistic group of the Balts and speak Latvian. Russians are the most prominent minority in the country, at almost a quarter of the population; 37.7% of the population speak Russian as their native tongue.
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