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Vidzeme
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Vidzeme (; Old Latvian orthography: Widda-semme, ) is one of the Historical Latvian Lands. The capital of Latvia, Riga, is situated in the southwestern part of the region. Literally meaning "the Middle Land", Vidzeme is situated in north-central Latvia north of the Daugava River. Sometimes in German, it was also known as Livland, the German form from Latin Livonia, though it comprises only a small part of Medieval Livonia and about half (the Latvian part) of Swedish Livonia. Most of the region's inhabitants are Latvians (85%), thus Vidzeme is the most ethnically Latvian region in the country.
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- Vidzeme
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- {{Photomontage | color = #ffffff | photo1a = Plaza del Ayuntamiento, Riga, Letonia, 2012-08-07, DD 23.JPGRiga Old Town | photo1b = Jurmala, Latvia (14449902453).jpg|Jurmala,_Latvia_(14449902453)]]Beaches of Jūrmala
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- Ķemeru purva laipa.jpgĶemeri National Park
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- Turaida castle from the opposite side.jpgTuraida Castle
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- 2
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- 0
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- 260 }} | image_caption = {{hlist
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- 7639661
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- August 2022}} | population_total = 1.3 million | population_density_km2 = auto | population_density_sq_mi = | population_demonym = | timezone = [[Eastern European Time
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- +2 | timezone_DST = [[Eastern European Summer Time
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- 0.854{{Cite web
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- https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/shdi/LVA/?levels=4&interpolation=1&extrapolation=0&nearest_real=0&years=2019
- Settlement.title
- Sub-national HDI - Area Database
- Settlement.publisher
- Global Data Lab
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Vidzeme (; Old Latvian orthography: Widda-semme, ) is one of the Historical Latvian Lands. The capital of Latvia, Riga, is situated in the southwestern part of the region. Literally meaning "the Middle Land", Vidzeme is situated in north-central Latvia north of the Daugava River. Sometimes in German, it was also known as Livland, the German form from Latin Livonia, though it comprises only a small part of Medieval Livonia and about half (the Latvian part) of Swedish Livonia. Most of the region's inhabitants are Latvians (85%), thus Vidzeme is the most ethnically Latvian region in the country.
The historic Governorate of Livonia is also larger than Vidzeme, since it corresponds roughly to Swedish Livonia.
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