Riga

Riga Rīga
City
From top, left to right: the Freedom Monument, the Riga City Council building, the House of the Blackheads, Līvu Square, and the Latvian National Opera
Flag Coat of arms
Riga Location of Riga in Latvia
Coordinates: 56°56′56″N 24°6′23″E / 56.94889°N 24.10639°E / 56.94889; 24.10639
Country	Latvia
Government [1]
• Type	City council
• Mayor	Vilnis Ķirsis
Area  (2002)[2]
• City	324 km2 (125 sq mi)
• Land	275.5 km2 (106.4 sq mi)
• Water	48.50 km2 (18.73 sq mi)  15.8%
• Metro	10,133 km2 (3,912 sq mi)
Population  (2017)[3]
• City	641,423
• Density	2,000/km2 (5,100/sq mi)
• Metro [4]	1,070,201
• Metro density	101.4/km2 (263/sq mi)
• Demonym	Rīdzinieki
Ethnicity  (2016)[5]
• Latvians	46.2%
• Russians	37.7%
• Belarusians	3.9%
• Ukrainians	3.5%
• Poles	1.8%
• Lithuanians	0.8%
• Romanies	0.1%
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Calling codes	66 and 67
GDP(nominal)	2012
- Total	€12($15) billion[6]
- Per capita	€18,000($21,000)
Website	www.riga.lv

Historic Centre of Riga

UNESCO World Heritage Site
The old town of Riga
Criteria	Cultural: i, ii
Reference	852
Inscription	1997 (21st Session)
Area	438.3 ha
Buffer zone	1,574.2 ha

Riga is the capital city of the European country of Latvia. Riga is on river Daugava near the Baltic Sea. The historical center of Riga is in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List and is notable for its Art Nouveau architecture, which, according to UNESCO, has no equal in the world. ^[7]

The mayor of Riga was Mārtiņš Staķis. He resigned in July 2023. ^[8]

The current mayor of Riga is Vilnis Ķirsis. He became the mayor on July 5, 2023.

1. ↑ "Riga City Council". Riga City Council. Archived from the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
2. ↑ "Riga in Figures". Riga City Council. Archived from the original on 10 August 2007. Retrieved 2 August 2007.
3. ↑ "Table RESIDENT POPULATION BY STATISTICAL REGION, CITY AND COUNTY Riga city". csb.gov.lv. Archived from the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
4. ↑ https://www.geo.lu.lv/fileadmin/user_upload/lu_portal/projekti/gzzf/Konferences/EGEA/Krisjane_Zira_Rigas_aglomeracija.pdf#page=10
5. ↑ "Table ISG191. RESIDENT POPULATION BY ETHNICITY AND BY STATISTICAL REGION AND CITY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 2015". csb.gov.lv. Archived from the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
6. ↑ "2.1. Gross Domestic Product – Stratēģijas Uzraudzības Sistēma". sus.lv. Archived from the original on 2018-01-28. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
7. ↑ Centre, UNESCO World Heritage. "Historic Centre of Riga". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
8. ↑ "Staķis paziņo par atkāpšanos no Rīgas mēra amata". www.lsm.lv (in Latvian). Retrieved 2023-08-22.