Kreis Riga

Kreis Riga (Rīgas apriņķis, Рижский уезд) was one of the nine subdivisions of the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire. Its capital was Riga, which was the capital of the governorate as well. Kreis Riga was situated in the southern part of the governorate (in present-day central Latvia).

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Kreis Riga had a population of 396,101. Of these, 58.2% spoke Latvian, 18.2% German, 11.9% Russian, 4.7% Yiddish, 3.5% Polish, 1.6% Lithuanian, 1.1% Estonian, 0.2% Belarusian, 0.1% Tatar, 0.1% Ukrainian, 0.1% English and 0.1% French as their native language.^[1]

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