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title: "Latvia — capital, area, population and currency"
description: "Latvia: capital Riga, area 64,589 km², population 1,847,785 (2025), currency Euro. Languages, time zones and calling code."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country/latvia/
site: "At One Place"
---

# 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

- [Sri Lanka](https://atoneplace.net/country/sri-lanka/)
- [Lithuania](https://atoneplace.net/country/lithuania/)
- [Togo](https://atoneplace.net/country/togo/)
- [Croatia](https://atoneplace.net/country/croatia/)
- [Russia](https://atoneplace.net/country/russia/)
- [Germany](https://atoneplace.net/country/germany/)
- [United Kingdom](https://atoneplace.net/country/united-kingdom/)
- [France](https://atoneplace.net/country/france/)
- [Italy](https://atoneplace.net/country/italy/)
- [Spain](https://atoneplace.net/country/spain/)
- [Ukraine](https://atoneplace.net/country/ukraine/)
- [Poland](https://atoneplace.net/country/poland/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]