Riga
1. General information :
Riga is the capital and the largest city of Latvia. With 641,007 inhabitants (2015), Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states and home to one third of Latvia’s population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga, at the mouth of the Daugava. Riga was founded in 1201 and is a former Hanseatic League member. Riga’s historical centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, noted for its Artnouveau/Jugendstil architecture and 19th century wooden architecture.
Population : 641.000
Location : Latvia
Twinned with :
- Aalborg (Denmark)
- Alicante (Spain)
- Almaty (Kazakhstan)
- Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Astana (Kazakhstan)
- Beijing (China)
- Bordeaux (France)
- Bremen (Germany)
- Cairns (Australia)
- Calais (France)
- Dunkirk (France)
- Florence (Italy)
- Guam (United States)
- Kiev (Ukraine)
- Kobe (Japan)
- Minsk (Belarus)
- Moscow (Russia)
- Norrköping (Sweden)
- Pori (Finland)
- Providence, Rhode Island (USA)
- Rostock (Germany)
- Saint Petersburg (Russia)
- Santiago (Chile)
- Slough (England)
- Stockholm (Sweden)
- Suzhou (China)
- Taipei (Taiwan)
- Tallinn (Estonia)
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
- Warsaw (Poland)
2.The city in our network :
The city and Efus :
Member since January 2016
Member of the Executive Committee since 2016
Participation :
- Efus Executive Committee, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 8 November 2016
- Efus General Assembly, Setubal, Portugal, 28 June 2016
- Efus General Assembly, Paris, France, 24 June 2015
- Security and Tourism Conference, Paris, France, 25 June 2015
