Varakļāni district

Varakļāni district
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Basic data
Country	Latvia
Capital	Varakļāni
surface	279 km²
Residents	3310 (2018)
density	12 inhabitants per km²
founding	2009
ISO 3166-2	LV-102
Website	www.varaklani.lv (Latvian)

56.6 26.75Coordinates: 56 ° 36 ' N , 26 ° 45' E

The Varakļāni District (Varakļānu novads) is located in Latvia .

geography

The district is located in the east of the country, in the Latgale region .

population

Since 2009 there has been an administrative community of the city of Varakļāni with two neighboring municipalities, namely with the municipality of Murmastiene and with the rural municipality of Varakļāni (Latvian: Varakļānu Pagasts ).

In 2018, a total of 3310 inhabitants were registered in the Varakļāni administrative district, 702 of them in Murmastiene and 715 in the rural municipality of Varakļāni, the rest in the city of Varakļāni. At the 2011 census, 93.3% of them declared themselves to be ethnic Latvians, 4.9% said they belonged to the Russian minority and 1.8% of other ethnic minorities.

Web links

Commons : Varakļāni Municipality - collection of images, videos and audio files

Varakļāni district website

Footnotes

↑ Latvijas iedzīvotāju skaits pašvaldībās (= population figures of the self-governing districts of Latvia), as of July 1, 2018 (Latvian), p. 20, accessed on January 5, 2019.

[1] Latvijas iedzīvotāju skaits pašvaldībās (= population figures of the self-governing districts of Latvia), as of July 1, 2018 (Latvian), p. 20, accessed on January 5, 2019.