Latvia

Facts

What the numbers say about Latvia

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 263× the size of Latvia.
• Latvia ranks 125th of 239 by area but only 151st of 237 by population: it holds fewer people than its size suggests.
• At 29 people per km², Latvia is the 136th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 57°N is drawn about 3.3× too large in area, so Latvia looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Latvia's main territory stretches about 266 km north to south and 447 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 64,600 km² agrees with our measured area of 64,600 km², to within 2%.

How Latvia measures up

Latvia holds 0.3% of the land area and 0.2% of the people of the 50 countries listed for Europe. In Northern Europe it is the 8th largest of 14.

Where Latvia sits

• Latvia's centre lies at 56.9°N, 24.9°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 6,320 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 56°N to 58°N, about 270 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Latvia had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Latvia would have 80.9 million people. It has 1.8 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Latvia would have 240,000 people. It has 1.8 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 4.7 million.

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