Full name: Republic of Latvia
Coordinates: 57 00 N, 25 00 E
Land area: 62,249 sq km, Land borders: 1,382 km
Sea area: 2,340 sq km, Coastline: 498 km
Population: 2,204,708 (July 2011 est.)
Position: Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, between Estonia and Lithuania
Neighbors: Russia 292 km, Estonia 343 km, Belarus 171 km, Lithuania 576 km
Government: parliamentary democracy
Telephones: 2.243 million (2009) mobile, 644,000 (2009) landline
Phone international country code: 371