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Detailed Analysis for Year: 2010
Full Dataset: from 1993 to 2008
Dataset updated: 1st August 2011
Data Source: CIA Factbook
National or Regional Currency: Lats
Currency Symbol: LVL
Location: Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, between Estonia and Lithuania
Geographic coordinates: 57 00 N, 25 00 E
Map references: Europe
Area: total: 64,589 sq km land: 62,249 sq km water: 2,340 sq km
Area - comparative: slightly larger than West Virginia
Terrain: low plain
Elevation extremes: lowest point: Baltic Sea 0 m highest point: Gaizina Kalns 312 m
Land boundaries: total: 1,382 km border countries: Belarus 171 km, Estonia 343 km, Lithuania 576 km, Russia 292 km
Coastline: 498 km
Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Geography - note: most of the country is composed of fertile low-lying plains with some hills in the east