Name: 地理Now!ラトビア (Geography Now! Latvia)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:19:15.000Z
Duration: 11 min 24 s
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Alright guys. We've reached the Baltic once again.

様態の副詞

If you don't know anything about the Baltics, It basically goes like this:

Estonia is a depressed yet attractive nerd girl who lives right next toooo...

Latvia & Lithuania twin sisters: "Come play with us, Estonia!"

Welcome to the first sister of the creepy Baltic twins.

Look I'm sorry, I called it the creepy Baltic twins but it's kind of true.

Latvia is one of those countries that just kind of naturally exudes this ambience of charming mystical dark undertones

and they're cool with it, and here's the thing, Latvia is the good twin.

Latvia does come with an incredibly vibrant culture rooted in unique traditions found almost nowhere else on earth.

Let's find out where it all goes down in,

Oh Latvia, you're like the most adorable Horror Show ever.

Latvia is located in the Northern European region known as the Baltics due to the location on the Baltic Sea,

surrounded by four other countries. The country is divided into 110 municipalities

and 9 Republic cities with the capital Riga, located along the aptly named Gulf of Riga.

Yeah, that's right. A 110 Municipalities.

But keep in mind though, most Latvians like to reference the five historical regions of Latvia for cultural distinction:

Courland (Kurzeme), Zemgale, Selonia (Pierīga), Vidzeme and Latgale.

Speaking of Courland, fun side note, Latvians actually once colonized Africa and the Caribbean under the Duchy of Courland.

They took over Tobago and remember in The Gambia episode,

we talked about the Kunta Kinte Island. Yep, that was Latvia.

See guys, you gotta watch those obscure African country videos like those are the ones

with the strangest backstories that give you the best secrets for history.

Anyway. The largest cities after Riga are Daugaupils and Liepāja.

And the two busiest and international airports are Riga International and Liepāja International.

Now Riga may be the capital but it's a River City, on the Daugava River, not a port city.

So most shipments must come in either at Ventspils or on Liepāja, on the Baltic coast.

The funny thing is even though Latvia has a decent sized coast, it owns virtually none of the islands that comes with it.

Even this little guy, Ruhnu, which belongs to Estonia even though it's closer to Latvia's mainland.

Latvia: "Dude, can I just have one island so I can build a patrol station?"

Oh, and if you look closely at the border with Estonia, they have Valga, which is a town split in half by the two nations. (Remember the Estonia episode?)

Now if there's one thing about Latvia that makes it stick out, it would have to be the architecture.

Riga is famously known for its Nouveau style buildings, which won the title of 'European Capital of Culture' back in 2014.

The city has over 4,000 historic wooden buildings more than any other European city

and of course if you Google Latvia, It's hard not to come across the most iconic building,

the House of Blackheads, originally built in the 1400s.

It was bombed in World War II and rebuilt. It's beautiful,

but the country does come with an austere backdrop back drop.

Back in Soviet times, things got pretty morbid and you still see the residue to this very day.

You can see ghost towns that were once used to house Soviet officials and their families

like Skrunda 1, an abandoned radar station village complete with decaying

apartments, schools and gymnasiums all adorned with Lenin and Soviet imagery left to rot.

The Latvians kind of use this to their advantage though.

They even took a military prison and made it into the world's creepiest hotel,

the Karosta Military Prison Hotel, in which you can pay to

be treated like a prisoner of war in World War II Nazi Germany times.

Your accommodations include: Getting yelled at and arrested, sent to a dark damp gritty room with no beds.

Only a light mattress and blankets on floor.

No room service and you get locked in your room.

Speaking of which, some other places of interest might include:

The Monument of freedom, Rundāle Palace sometimes called the 'Versailles of the North',

The Art Nouveau district and the Art Nouveau Museum in Riga,

the Mark Rothko Museum, pretty much the entire city of Cēsis,

Ziemeļu Northern Forts and the Daugavpils Fortress.

All right that covers that. Now we get into Latvia's land makeup

and to add to the sombre undertones, it's gonna get a bit swampy.

All the lands of the Baltic areas are like: 'Copy, Paste, Done!'.

So if you watch the Estonia episode, you'll probably know what I'm gonna say.

Latvia is located on the East European Plain, generally a flat area

on average no more than 100 meters above sea level with mild rolling hills every so often.

The highest point, Gaiziņkalns is only about 312 meters.

Fun side note, Latvia asctually had a little competition with Estonia, which kind of went like this:

Latvia: "You know Estonia, you got some great forests. You know I admire that about you."

Estonia: "Oh pssh, come on yours are nice too."

Latvia: "Oh well you know either way, it's not like we're gonna be climbing any huge summits right, right because we are flat countries. We are flat."

Estonia: Are you telling me my highest peak?

Latvia: "Ohhh uhh, what a coincidence. Uh mine's basically the same height just you know a little bit taller

Then in 2012, the tower was demolished because of safety concerns.

About 10% of the country is made up of peat bogs and swamps and over half the country is forested.

That's actually an increase as Latvia is experiencing natural afforestation. That's the opposite of deforestation because

Ken: "Yeah, we get it. Just keep going, Paul!"

the longest one as mentioned before is the Daugava

and Latvia has the widest waterfall in Europe,

and the largest lake in the country being the Lubāns.

Otherwise economically, Latvia has seen an overall huge GDP resurgence since the independence from the Soviet Union.

Basically, they had to switch everything from state-owned to privatisation

and when that happens, people usually get very creative. I mean why do you think they built that prison hotel?

Their economy is mostly run off of industrial goods like

textiles, wood, products, pharmaceuticals and processed foods.

Agriculture-wise, Latvians loved *three* things: Meat and dairy (and potatoes!)

Almost every meal will have these *three* things.

If you don't know anything about Baltic cuisine, basically

It's hearty heavy meals with rye bread lots of butter and fat

with little or no spices, except for maybe dill and caraway seeds. They love caraway.

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