Map of Latvia

Latvia is located in Europe. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 57.0° N, 25.0° E. It shares land borders with 4 countries — Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania and Russia — and also has its own coastline. Within Europe, a continent of 45 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, Latvia is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Latvia shares land frontiers with the following 4 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Latvia covers about 64,559 km² (24,926 sq mi). That makes it the 122nd-largest country in the world by area and the 24th-largest in Europe, larger by area than 21 of the continent’s 45 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 1,829,000, the 147th-largest in the world and the 33rd-largest in Europe, accounting for about 0.2% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Latvia has an average population density of about 28 people per km². Among the 45 countries of Europe it stands 33rd by population and 24th by area.

The seat of government is Riga, and the official currency is the Euro (EUR, €), and the main official language is Latvian. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC+02:00.

Latvia carries the ISO country codes LV and LVA, dials on the international calling code +371 and uses the .lv internet domain.

Latvia shares its land borders with 4 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Russia (capital Moscow, about 146,028,325 people), Belarus (capital Minsk, about 9,109,280 people), Lithuania (capital Vilnius, about 2,894,886 people) and Estonia (capital Tallinn, about 1,369,995 people).

By area, Latvia is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 57.0° N, 25.0° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Latvia within Europe. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Riga. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Latvia lies about 6,327 km from the equator, in the northern and eastern hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Latvia keeps a single standard time zone, UTC+02:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +02:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Euro (EUR, €).

The official language is Latvian, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +371 and websites commonly use the .lv internet domain.

In short, Latvia is a coastal country in Europe, sharing land borders with 4 countries. Its capital is Riga. Latvia has a population of about 1,829,000 and covers around 64,559 km² (24,926 sq mi), ranking it 147th in the world by population and 122nd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Latvia.

The flag of Latvia has a carmine-red field with a thin white horizontal band across the middle of the field.

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