Latvia Communications

Country Name: Republic of Latvia

Capital City: Riga

Population: 2,274,735 (2006)

Population Growth: -0.67% (2006)

Currency: Latvian lat (LVL)

Languages: Latvian

Area: 64,589 sq km

Inflation Rate: 6.8% (December 2006 est.)

Unemployment Rate: 7.5% (2005)

Domain extension: .lv

COMMUNICATIONS OF LATVIA

Telephones - main lines in use:

731,000 (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

1.872 million (2005)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 8, FM 56, shortwave 1 (1998)

Television broadcast stations:

44 (plus 31 repeaters) (1995)

Internet country code:

.lv

Internet hosts:

65,858 (2006)

Internet users:

1.03 million (2005)

International dialing code: