Latvian Place Names

Latvian names are used in the country of Latvia in northern Europe.

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ALBĀNIJA (Country) Latvian
Latvian form of ALBANIA.

AMERIKA (Region & Country) German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Luxembourgish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Albanian, Armenian, Georgian, Tatar, Bashkir, Chechen, Kazakh, Uzbek, Indonesian, Malay
Form of AMERICA, used to refer to the continents and sometimes to the United States of America.

ANGOLA (Country) Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Albanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Turkish, Georgian, Indonesian, Malay
Portuguese form of Ngola, the royal title of the kings of Ndongo, an African kingdom that was conquered by the Portuguese in the 17th-century. It was a Portuguese colony until 1975, when it became an independent country.

ARGENTĪNA (Country) Latvian
Latvian form of ARGENTINA.

ARMĒNIJA (Country) Latvian
Latvian form of ARMENIA.

AUSTRĀLIJA (Region & Country) Latvian
Latvian form of AUSTRALIA.

BEĻĢIJA (Country) Latvian
Latvian form of BELGIUM.

BOLĪVIJA (Country) Latvian
Latvian form of BOLIVIA.

DĀNIJA (Country) Latvian
Latvian form of DENMARK.

ETIOPIJA (Country) Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, Lithuanian, Latvian
Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, Lithuanian and Latvian form of Aethiopia (see ETHIOPIA).

GANA (Country) Western African, Akan, Ewe, Portuguese, Russian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Albanian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Turkish, Georgian, Armenian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Turkmen, Uzbek, Mongolian, Korean
Form of GHANA.

IGAUNIJA (Country) Latvian
From Latvian igaunis meaning "Estonian", derived from the name of the old region of Ugandi in southern Estonia. This is the Latvian name of Estonia.

INDIJA (Country) Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Macedonian, Latvian, Lithuanian
Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Macedonian, Latvian and Lithuanian form of INDIA.

INDONĒZIJA (Country) Latvian
Latvian form of INDONESIA.

ITĀLIJA (Country) Latvian
Latvian form of Italia (see ITALY).

JAPĀNA (Country) Latvian
Latvian form of Japão (see JAPAN).

KENIJA (Country & Mountain) Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Lithuanian, Latvian
Form of KENYA in several languages.

KOLUMBIJA (Country, Region, Settlement & Political Subdivision) Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Macedonian, Latvian, Lithuanian
Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Macedonian, Latvian and Lithuanian form of COLUMBIA and COLOMBIA.

KONGO (Region, River & Country) Central African, Kongo, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Russian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Turkish, Georgian
Form of CONGO in many languages.

LAOSA (Country) Latvian
Latvian form of LAOS.

LIBĒRIJA (Country) Latvian
Latvian form of LIBERIA.

LIETUVA (Country) Lithuanian, Latvian
Lithuanian and Latvian form of LITHUANIA.

MONGOLIJA (Country, Political Subdivision & Region) Latvian, Lithuanian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Slovene
Latvian, Lithuanian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian and Slovene form of MONGOLIA.

NIGĒRIJA (Country) Latvian
Latvian form of NIGERIA.

PERU (Country) English, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Russian, Ukrainian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Hungarian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Georgian, Indian, Hindi
From Spanish Perú, older Birú, which was possibly derived from the name of a chieftain (who nevertheless resided in modern-day Panama).

POLIJA (Country) Latvian
Latvian form of POLAND.

SERBIJA (Country) Lithuanian, Latvian
Lithuanian and Latvian form of SERBIA.

SĪRIJA (Country) Latvian
Latvian form of SYRIA.

SLOVĒNIJA (Country) Latvian
Latvian form of SLOVENIA.

SOMĀLIJA (Country) Latvian
Latvian form of SOMALIA.

SPĀNIJA (Country) Latvian
Latvian form of Hispania (see SPAIN).

UGANDA (Country) English, Eastern African, Ganda, Swahili, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Turkish, Georgian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malay
From Buganda, the name of a kingdom within Uganda, which means "land of the Ganda" in the Luganda language. The Ganda are an ethnic group, their name possibly deriving from a Bantu word meaning "family". Uganda is a landlocked country in eastern Africa.

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