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Latvia Geography 1996

Location:

Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, between Estonia and Lithuania

Map references:

Europe

Area:

total area:

64,100 sq km

land area:

64,100 sq km

comparative area:

slightly larger than West Virginia

Land boundaries:

total 1,078 km, Belarus 141 km, Estonia 267 km, Lithuania 453 km, Russia 217 km

Coastline:

531 km

Maritime claims:

exclusive economic zone:

200 nm

territorial sea:

12 nm

continental shelf:

200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation

International disputes:

the Abrene section of border ceded by the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic to Russia in 1944

Climate:

maritime; wet, moderate winters

Terrain:

low plain

Natural resources:

minimal; amber, peat, limestone, dolomite

Land use:

arable land:

27%

permanent crops:

meadows and pastures:

13%

forest and woodland:

39%

other:

21%

Irrigated land:

160 sq km (1990)

Environment:

current issues:

air and water pollution because of a lack of waste conversion equipment; Gulf of Riga and Daugava River heavily polluted; contamination of soil and groundwater with chemicals and petroleum products at military bases

natural hazards:

international agreements:

party to - Air Pollution, Hazardous Wastes, Ship Pollution; signed, but not ratified - Biodiversity, Climate Change

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