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Road Traffic:right side
Electricity:
Voltage:220V
Frequency:50 Hz
Plug types:C, F,
TV Systems:
System:PAL D (was SECAM) / PAL K
DVD-Region: 5
Geography
Bordering countries:
Location:
Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, between Estonia and Lithuania
Area:
total: 64,589 sq km
land: 63,589 sq km
water: 1,000 sq km
Climate:
maritime; wet, moderate winters
Terrain:
low plain
Economy
GDP: $30.29 billion (2005 est.)
GDP growth rate: 10.2% (2005 est.)
GDP per capita: $13,200 (2005 est.)
Inflation rate: 6.7% (2005 est.)
Currency: Latvian lat (LVL)
Exchange rates:
lati per US dollar - 0.5647 (2005), 0.5402 (2004), 0.5715 (2003), 0.6182 (2002), 0.6279 (2001)
People
Population: 2,274,735 (July 2006 est.)
Growth rate: -0.67% (2006 est.)
Religions:
Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Russian Orthodox
Languages:
Latvian (official) 58.2%, Russian 37.5%, Lithuanian and other 4.3% (2000 census)
Government
Capital:
name: Riga
time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October
Independence:
21 August 1991 (from Soviet Union)
Note: Information on Latvia was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Latvia, please visit one of the links below.
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