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Always love to receive and swap these most collectable "Greetings From " cards now... another has just arrived from Latvia..and what a lovely country that is..I loved Riga and its friendly people there..
Posted Riga 30 November : Arrived Sydney : 16 December : Traveled 16 days.. Thank you Innes...
Geetings From..LATVIA.:
LATVIA : has an area of 64,589 KM 2..The CAPITAL city is Riga.;
POPULATION : of Latvia is 1, 990, 300. inhabitants.
NATIONAL EMBLEM: is a bird ..The white wagtail.
REGION: of Lettland...as the area was historically known and the people were called "The Letts "or Lettish people.!!
FLAG: The Latvian flagis one of the oldest in the world written records of the red-white-red Latvian flag have existed since the second half of the 13 th Century.
KING NAMEJS :" The Namejs Ring" is a big part of Latvian heritage and culture. The legend behind it says that King Namejs had the rings made to be able to identify members of his tribe at a glance.
FAMOUS LATVIANS : include Walter Zapp , Arvids Blumentals ,Aleksandrs Laime ,Gunnar Birkerts
WATERFALL : Ventas Rumba , Latvia is home to the widest waterfall in all of Europe 110 meters wide but only 2 meters high.
TV TOWER :The Riga TV and Radio Tower is the tallest structure in the country and one of the tallest in Europe stretching 368.5 Meters into the sky.
POST CROSSING : There are over 2700 Post crossers in Latvia.
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