Latvia

"So this is Latvia. A place where potatoes and sausages are made, like Ireland and Belarus. Beer, nationalism, singing, dancing, the European Union, sausages... their favorite. Now the Ruskies are hurting Latvia so hard, and I have a bad feeling about this."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Darkness Over the Baltics

Latvia, (/ˈlætviə/); Latvian: Latvija [ˈlatvija]), officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvian: Latvijas Republika), is the second largest country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe and is one of the three Baltic states. It is bordered by Estonia in the northern region, Lithuania in the southern, to the east is Russia, and Belarus to the southeast, as well as sharing a maritime border with Sweden to the west. Latvia has 1,957,200 inhabitants and a territory of 64,589 km2 (24,938 sq mi). The country has a temperate seasonal climate.