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Other than peat, dolomite, and limestone, natural resources are scarce. Latvia has 504 km (313 mi) of sandy coastline, and the ports of Liepāja and Ventspils provide important warm-water harbors for the Baltic coast. Latvia is a small country with a land size of 64,559 km 2 (24,926 sq mi).
Module:Location map/data/Latvia is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Latvia. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
In 1998 and 1999, in honour of the 80th anniversary of Latvia's independence, four granite sculptures by Vilnis Titāns (1944–2006) were placed near each of Latvia's extreme points. The project was called Latvija saules zīmē, "Latvia in the Sun sign".
Map of countries coloured according to their highest point. The following sortable table lists land surface elevation extremes by country or dependent territory. Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.
Bērzaune parish, Madona Municipality, Latvia The Gaising or Gaiziņkalns (German: Mesenberg), at 312 m (1,024 feet [ 1 ] ) above sea level, is the highest point in Latvia . It is situated in the Vidzeme Upland , a short distance to the west of the town of Madona , central Vidzeme .
Today the Latvians and Lithuanians are the only surviving members of the Baltic peoples and Baltic languages of the Indo-European family. The modern name of Latvia is thought to originate from the ancient Latvian name Latvji , which may have originated from the word Latve which is a name of the river that presumably flowed through what is now ...
Since then, it has been amended and is still in effect in Latvia today. With most of Latvia's industrial base evacuated to the interior of Russia in 1915, radical land reform was the central political question for the young state. In 1897, 61.2% of the rural population had been landless; by 1936, that percentage had been reduced to 18%.
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