Latvia (NC)
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|+Latvijas Republika
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| Area || 71,675 km²
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| Population
Density
As of || 13,451,043
187.7/km²
2005 AD
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| Capital
Biggest city || Riga
Riga
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| Currency || Latvian lats (LVL)
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| GDP per capita
as of 2005 || 17,948 LVL
17,564 GB£
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| Official language || Latvian
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| Other languages || Russian, Livonian, Curonian
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| Government
President
Prime minister || Parliamentary democracy
Valdis Zatlers
Valdis Dombrovskis
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Biggest cities
The populations are as of 2005.
- Riga, inhabitants 1,924,983 (metro 5,049,392)
- Daugavpils, inhabitants 754,093 (metro 1,830,036)
- Liepāja, inhabitants 539,000 (metro 1,094,466)
- Ventspils, inhabitants 431,000 (metro 886,012)
- Jūrmala, inhabitants 428,000 (part of metropolitan Riga)
- Salaspils, inhabitants 401,000 (part of metropolitan Riga)
- Olaine, inhabitants 385,000 (part of metropolitan Riga)
- Ķekava, inhabitants 369,000 (part of metropolitan Riga)
- Rēzekne, inhabitants 350,000 (metro 749,000)
- Garkalne, inhabitants 338,000 (part of metropolitan Riga)
Demographics
Languages
- Latvian 85.1%
- Russian 9.9%
- Livonian 1.5%
- Curonian 1.4%
- Lithuanian 1.0%
- Ukrainian 0.3%
- Swedish 0.2%
- other 0.6%