Area 64,600 sq km (24,942 sq mi)
Poplation 2,349,000
Capital city Riga (793,000)
Government Multiparty republic
Ethnicity Groups: Latvian 58%, Russian 30%, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Polish, Lithuanian
Language Latvian (official), Lithuanian, Russian
Religions Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Russian Orthodox
Currency Latvian lat = 10 santimi

The Republic of Latvia is one of three states on the south- eastern corner of the Baltic Sea which were ruled as parts of the Soviet Union between 1940 and 1991.

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