Latvia

Latvia is a country located in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the Baltic States. It borders Estonia to the north, Lithuania to the south, Russia to the east, Belarus to the southeast, and shares a maritime boundary with Sweden to the west. Latvia covers an area of ​​64,589 km2 (24,938 square miles) and has a population of 1.9 million. The country has a warm seasonal climate. The largest city in its capital is Riga. Latvian people belong to the Balts ethnic language group. And he speaks Latvian, one of the two surviving Baltic languages. Russians make up almost a quarter of the population and are the most prominent minority in the country.

Over the centuries of German, Swedish, Polish-Lithuania, and Russian rule, mainly carried out by Baltic German nobles, the Republic of Latvia separated from the German Empire and proclaimed independence in the aftermath of the world. World War I was established on the 18th of March. However, by the 1930s, after the 1934 coup, the country gained more and more autonomy and an authoritarian regime was established under Kharis Ulmanis. The country's de facto independence was interrupted at the beginning of World War II, Latvia was forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany invaded and occupied it in 1941, and Soviet reoccupied it in 1944. And the Latvian SSR for the next 45 years. As a result of the large Soviet-occupied immigrants, Russians have become the most prominent ethnic minority in the country and now make up almost a quarter of the population. The Peaceful Singing Revolution began in 1987 and ended on August 21, 1991 with the restoration of de facto independence. Since then, Latvia has become a democratic unified parliamentary republic.

Latvia is a developed country and a high-income developed economy. Very high ranking in the Human Development Index. It favors citizen freedom, press freedom, internet freedom, democratic governance, living standards, and measures of peace. Latvia is a member of the European Union, the Eurozone, NATO, the Council of Europe, the United Nations, the Council of the Baltic Seas, the International Monetary Fund, the Nordic Baltic VIII, the Nordic Investment Bank and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Cooperation and Development Organization, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, and World Trade Organization.