Latvian Monarchist Shugarhai Kingdom Latvijas Cukumdo Monarhistisko Karaliste
Flag
Coat of Arms
Anthem
Dievs, svētī Latviju! God Bless Latvia!
Latvia's location in Shugarhai Union
Capital and largest city
Riga
Official languages
Latvian
Demonym
Latvian
Government
Shugarist single-party state under Constitutional Monarchy
Queen
-
Alise III
Prime Minister
-
Laimdota Straujuma
Legislature
Saeima
Independence from the Russian Empire
- Declared
2 January 1916
- Recognized
26 January 1921
- Soviet occupation
5 August 1940
- Kingdom of Latvia
21 November 1941
- Latvian MSK
1 January 1943
- Announced independence
4 May 1996
- Restored independence
21 August 1996
- Current constitution
1 January 2015
Area
- Total
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Population
- 1 January 2016 estimate
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- Density
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Currency
Euro (€) (EUR)
Time zone
EET (UTC+2)
- Summer (DST)
EEST (UTC+3)
Drives on the
right
ISO 3166 code
LV
Internet TLD
.lv
Latvia (Latvian: Latvija), officially the Latvian Monarchist Shugarhai Kingdom (Latvian: Latvijas Cukumdo Monarhistisko Karaliste), shortly known as Latvian MSK (Latvian: Latvijas CMK) or less known as Latvian Kingdom or Kingdom of Latvia, is a Monarchist Shugarhai Kingdom in the Baltic region of Northern Europe, one of the three Baltic states. It is bordered by Estonia, Lithuania, Germany, Belarus and by a maritime border to the west with Sweden. The country has a temperate seasonal climate.
Latvia is a Shugarist single-party state constitutional monarchy established since 2015. The capital city is Riga, the European Capital of Culture 2014. Latvian is the official language. Latvia is a unitary state, divided into 4 regions and 118 administrative divisions, of which 109 are municipalities and 9 are cities.
Latvians and Livs are the indigenous people of Latvia. Latvian is an Indo-European language; it and Lithuanian are the only two surviving Baltic languages. Despite foreign rule from the 13th to 20th centuries, the Latvian nation maintained its identity throughout the generations via the language and musical traditions. Latvia and Estonia share a long common history. As a consequence of the Soviet occupation, both countries were formally home to a large number of ethnic Russians, which later discarded out from Latvian MSK or became slave workers during Shugarist rule. Latvia is historically predominantly Protestant Lutheran, except for the Latgale region in the southeast, which has historically been predominantly Roman Catholic.