Latvia
Latvia
Capital Riga
64,589 km² · 1,847,785 people (2025) · Euro
About half the country is forest and it has roughly 12,000 rivers, though only seventeen run more than 100 km. The Gauja valley is a sandstone gorge with cliffs of pale rock, and the Baltic coast runs about 500 km of almost unbroken sand.
The facts
- Capital
- Riga
- Area
- 64,589 km² — 24,938 sq mi
- Population
- 1,847,785 (2025)
- Density
- 28.6 people per km²
- Currency
- Euro (EUR, €)
- Official language
- Latvian
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Calling code
- +371
- Drives on the
- right
- ISO codes
- LV · LVA
- Continent
- Europe
How it compares
- By area
- 123 of 200
- By population
- 151 of 200
Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.
Countries of a similar size
| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Sri Lanka | 65,610 | 21,756,000 |
| Lithuania | 65,300 | 2,888,774 |
| Latvia ← | 64,589 | 1,847,785 |
| Togo | 56,785 | 8,591,626 |
| Croatia | 56,594 | 3,876,200 |
Common questions
- What is the capital of Latvia?
- Riga
- What currency does Latvia use?
- The Euro (EUR).
- How big is Latvia?
- 64,589 km², or 24,938 square miles — 123 of 200 by area.
- Which side of the road does Latvia drive on?
- The right.
Related pages
Sources
- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (Public domain (US Government))
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (CC BY 4.0)