Riga (Latvie: Rīga, pronounced ( listen)) is the caipital an lairgest ceety o Latvie, a major industrial, commercial, cultural an financial centre o the Baltics, an an important seaport, situatit on the mouth o the Daugava.
Wi 706,413 inhabitants (2010), it is the lairgest ceety o the Baltic states an third-lairgest in the Baltic region, ahint Saunt Petersburg an Stockholm (coontin residents athin the ceety limits). Riga's territory covers 307.17 km2 (118.60 sq mi) an lies atween 1 an 10 metres (3.3 an 33 ft) abuin sea level, on a flat an sandy plain.
Riga Rīga | |
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Ceety | |
A view frae St. Peter's Kirk in Riga Auld Toun. | |
Coordinates: 56°56′56″N 24°6′23″E / 56.94889°N 24.10639°E 24°6′23″E / 56.94889°N 24.10639°E | |
Kintra | Latvie |
Govrenment | |
• Teep | Ceety cooncil |
• Mayor | Nils Ušakovs |
Area (2002) | |
• Ceety | 307.17 km2 (118.60 sq mi) |
• Water | 48.50 km2 (18.73 sq mi) 15.8% |
• Metro | 10132 km2 (3,912 sq mi) |
Population (2010) | |
• Ceety | 706,413 |
• Density | 2,300/km2 (6,000/sq mi) |
• Metro | 1,098,523 (Riga Region) |
• Metro density | 108.3/km2 (280/sq mi) |
• Demonym | Rīdzinieki |
Ethnicity (2010) | |
• Latvies | 42.5 % |
• Roushies | 40.7 % |
• Belaroushies | 4.0 % |
• Ukrainians | 3.9 % |
• Poles | 2.0 % |
• Ithers | 6.7 % |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Cawin codes | 66 & 67 |
Website | www.riga.lv |
Riga's historical centre haes been declared a UNESCO Warld Heritage Steid, an the ceety is pairticularly notable for its extensive Jugendstil (German Art Nouveau) airchitecture, which UNESCO considers tae be unparalleled onywhere in the warld.
Ane theory for the oreegin o the name Riga is that it is a corruptit borraein frae the Liv ringa meanin luip, referrin tae the auncient natural harbour formed bi the tributary luip o the Daugava. The ither is that Riga awes its name tae this awready-established role in commerce atween East an Wast, as a borraein o the Latvian rija, for threshin barn, the "j" becomin a "g" in German—notably, Riga is cried Rie bi Inglis geographer Richard Hakluyt (1589), an German historian Dionysius Fabricius (1610) confirms the oreegin o Riga frae rija. Anither theory coud be that Riga wis named efter Riege, the German name for the River Rīdzene, a tributary o the Daugava.
Riga maintains sister ceety relationships wi the follaein ceeties:
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