Flag of Latvia
What the flag means
- Carmine red — readiness to give the blood of the heart for freedom
- White stripe — truth, honor and freedom
Design set by: Latvijas valsts karoga likums, 2. pants · Adopted 1990
Highlights
- 🏛️ Riga's Art Nouveau architecture
- 🌲 Endless forests and lakes
- 🏖️ White Baltic Sea beaches
- 🎶 The UNESCO Song Festival
- 🌿 Clean nature and countryside
Quick facts
- Region
- Europe · Northern Europe
- Population
- 1,847,785 people (2025)
- Area
- 64,559 km²
- Capital
- Riga
- Languages
- Latvian, Russian
- Currency
- Euro (EUR)
- Organizations
- United Nations, European Union, NATO, OECD
Similar flags
Horizontal tricolors
Neighboring countries
Land neighbors, approximated from simplified map outlines.
Data Sources
- What the flag means: Latvijas valsts karoga likums, 2. pants
- Population: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL), latest available value
- Area: World countries in JSON, CSV, XML and YAML
- Organizations: Membership of Principal UN Organs
- Organizations: Member States of the European Union
- Organizations: What is NATO? Member countries
- Organizations: Members and partners