The Ventspils District (Latvian: Ventspils rajons), was an administrative division of Latvia, located in the Courland region, in the country's west.[2]
Ventspils | |
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District | |
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| Country | Latvia |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2,462 km2 (951 sq mi) |
| Population (1998) | |
| • Total | 14,530[1] |
| Website | ventspilsrp.lv/ |
The district consisted of eleven parishes and one rural territory.[2] The city of Ventspils was district-free, and not part of the population estimate.[1][3] All districts were eliminated during the administrative-territorial reform in 2009.
Parishes and rural territory edit
References edit
- ^ a b OECD Economic Surveys: Baltic States 2000. OECD Publishing. 2000-03-01. ISBN 978-92-64-17741-3.
- ^ a b Edovald, Triin; Felton, Michelle; Haywood, John (2010). Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. Marshall Cavendish. p. 1075. ISBN 978-0-7614-7896-6.
- ^ Martí-Henneberg, Jordi (2021-08-20). European Regions, 1870 – 2020: A Geographic and Historical Insight into the Process of European Integration. Springer Nature. p. 365. ISBN 978-3-030-61537-6.
57°25′N 21°32′E / 57.417°N 21.533°E
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