Latvia map quiz
Explore cities and landmarks of Latvia!
Quizzes in this pack
Latvia: cities, landmarks.
| Cities | 8 questions |
| Landmarks | 8 questions |
Sample questions
- The capital on the Daugava River, largest city of the Baltics, famous for Art Nouveau architecture
- Answer: Riga
- Second-largest city in the far southeast, built around a vast 19th-century fortress
- Answer: Daugavpils
- Western port city on the Baltic coast, called the city where the wind is born
- Answer: Liepāja
- Former capital of the Duchy of Courland, dominated by a grand baroque palace by Rastrelli
- Answer: Jelgava
- Seaside resort strip of white-sand beaches and wooden villas just west of the capital
- Answer: Jūrmala
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Riga Old Town
Riga, on the Daugava
Riga's old town grew up on the Daugava as a trading city of the Hanseatic League, founded in 1201. Around it lies one of the largest collections of Art Nouveau buildings in the world, about a third of the buildings in the centre, with faces, flowers and dragons carved on their walls.
- Built
- Founded 1201
- Did you know?
- Riga says the Christmas tree began here, with a tree merchants decorated in the square in 1510
Jūrmala
West of Riga
Jūrmala is a seaside town stretching for more than 30 km along a white sand beach on the Gulf of Riga. It has been a resort since the 1800s, and among its pine trees stand hundreds of old wooden villas with carved verandas.
- Length
- About 32 km of beach
- Did you know?
- Jūrmala means “seaside” in Latvian
Sigulda
Gauja valley
Sigulda lies in the Gauja valley, often called “the Switzerland of Latvia” for its steep sandstone banks and forests. Across the valley stand the red-brick tower of Turaida Castle and the ruins of Sigulda Castle, both built by German crusaders in the 1200s.
- Did you know?
- Latvia’s bobsleigh track is here, and in winter visitors can ride down in a bob
Gauja National Park
Vidzeme
Gauja National Park, founded in 1973, is Latvia's oldest and largest national park, following the river Gauja through a valley of forests, red sandstone cliffs and caves. Gūtmaņa ala, the largest cave in the Baltic states, is covered in names and carvings left by visitors over centuries.
- Opened
- 1973
- Area
- About 900 km²
Cape Kolka
Courland
Cape Kolka is the tip of the Courland peninsula, where the open Baltic Sea meets the Gulf of Riga and the waves from the two collide. The coast is slowly washing away, so fallen pines lie on the beach, and in spring huge numbers of migrating birds pass over.
- Did you know?
- Its lighthouse stands on a man-made island about 5 km out to sea
Kuldīga
Courland
Kuldīga is an old wooden town in western Latvia on the river Venta, where Venta Rapid, about 250 metres wide, is often called the widest waterfall in Europe, though it is only about two metres high. In spring, fish called vimba leap up the falls, and people once caught them in baskets.
- Width
- About 250 m
- Did you know?
- Its brick bridge, from 1874, is one of the longest of its kind in Europe
How it works
Pick a quiz, then find, name or choose your answer on the 3D globe. A round has 10 questions by default, or more, up to the whole quiz. Each round picks what you need most: questions due again, new ones and the places you tend to mix up. In a short round, the questions you miss are asked once more at the end. Spaced repetition then brings them back on later days until you know them.
Every round also fills your mastery badges for the continent or country, the topic and the whole world: bronze at 50%, silver at 80% and gold at 100%.
