Latvia covers an area of 64,589 square kilometers, including 62,046 square kilometers of land and 2,543 square kilometers of internal water. The population is 2.28 million (20 14). Latvian ethnic group accounts for 62%, Russian ethnic group accounts for 26%, Belarusian ethnic group accounts for 3%, Ukrainian ethnic group accounts for 2% and Polish ethnic group accounts for 2%. In addition, there are Jews, Estonians and other nationalities. Latvian is the official language, and Russian is widely used. The main beliefs are Christianity, Lutheranism and Orthodox Church.
Riga, the capital, has a population of 765,438+0,000 (2065,438+04), with an average temperature of -4.6℃ in October and 265,438+0.4℃ in July and 6.7℃ in the whole year. Jonis, president of the head of state, was elected in June 20 15 and took office in July.
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Latvia is located in the western plain of Eastern Europe, close to the east coast of the Baltic Sea, and gulf of riga is deep inland. Bordering Estonia, Russia, Belarus and Lithuania. It covers an area of 64,589 square kilometers, including land area of 62,046 square kilometers and internal water area of 2,543 square kilometers.
It consists of 109 municipalities and 9 municipalities directly under the central government. Latvians belong to the Baltic nation and are culturally close to Lithuanians. Latvian belongs to Indo-European language family, Latvian and Lithuanian are the only remaining languages in Baltic language family.
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