Monday, August 5, 2013

I like Latvia

I have decided that I like Latvia. I have come to this conclusion after some research and a very selfish purpose. I will present some of the facts I found about Latvia below and the selfish reason will be revealed in the later half of the post.

  • Latvia seems to be a beautiful country. Check it out here.
  • Wikipedia says that, with 2,070,371 inhabitants[5] and a territory of 64,589 km2 (24,938 sq mi)[8] it is one of the least populous and least densely populated countries of the European Union. This brings the density to 32 people/ sq.km. [Being from India, you can realise how highly I regard this fact. Indian population density stands at 365 ppl/sq.km.]
  • Latvia is a country in the "Baltic" region of Northern Europe with their major language being Latvian.Latvian is an Indo-European language."Baltic" can be roughly translated into Hindi as "of the bucket". It seemed to be an important cross-reference. ]
  • Latvia was first declared independent on 18th of November 1918. [I was married on 18th of November 2010! See the connection?]
  • Latvia was recognised as a nation on January 26, 1921. [India became a Republic on January 26 1950. I'm telling you, I was destined to like Latvia.]
  • They even had a cool Singing Revolution to reclaim their independence between 1987 and 1991! [I have a deep love of singing and a singing revolution seems to be THE perfect type of protest to me. Even so, I feel they must have used some really bad singers to force an issue of independence down the Russian throats.]
There are some more cool facts but you will have to do your own research for that. Now, coming to the selfish reason for liking Latvia.
Do you see? The Latvians make up the majority of my readers. I thank them from the bottom of my heart for dropping by. But I would really like to know what drew them here. If any of my Latvian readers are reading this then please let me know. 
I also want to ask my fellow bloggers if they have come across such interesting statistics. 


2 comments:

  1. Fascinating. MY WIFE is Latvian (well, of Latvian heritage, as she was born in U.S.A.)

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  2. I guess you, being the kind soul that you are, are arm twisting your in-laws back there to raise my blog views. O you shouldn't have(you totally should have, thank you)!

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