Ventspils District

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The Ventspils District (Latvian: Ventspils rajons), was an administrative division of Latvia, located in the Courland region, in the country's west.[2]

Ventspils
District
Coat of arms of Ventspils District
Location of Ventspils
CountryLatvia
Area
 • Total2,462 km2 (951 sq mi)
Population
 (1998)
 • Total14,530[1]
Websiteventspilsrp.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

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References

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  1. ^ a b OECD Economic Surveys: Baltic States 2000. OECD Publishing. 2000-03-01. ISBN 978-92-64-17741-3.
  2. ^ a b Edovald, Triin; Felton, Michelle; Haywood, John (2010). Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. Marshall Cavendish. p. 1075. ISBN 978-0-7614-7896-6.
  3. ^ 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.

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