| Area |
64.6 thousand km2 (2.1 times of Belgium)
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| Location |
Eastern coast of the Baltic Sea
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| Population (1998) |
2.46 million (4 times less than in Belgium), 69.1% of the population lives in urban areas
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| Location |
Eastern coast of the Baltic Sea
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| Population in Capital (1998) |
Rīga, 806 thousand inhabitants or 1/3 of the country's population
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| Neighbouring states |
Estonia, Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, Sweden (sea boundary)
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| Length of land boundary |
1.4 thousand km
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| Length of sea boundary |
0.5 thousand km
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| GDP per capita at current prices (1998) |
1,541 lats or 2,708 US dollars (exchange rate 0,569 LVL/USD)
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| The highest point |
Gaiziņkalns, 312 m above sea level
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