Place:Kuldīga, Latvia

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NameKuldīga
Alt namesKuldīga County
Kuldigas Rajonssource: NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Kuldigskiy Rayonsource: NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Kuldīgasource: Family History Library Catalog
Kuldīgasource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Kuldīga districtsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Kuldīgas rajonssource: Wikipedia
TypeNational District
Coordinates56.833°N 22.0°E
Located inLatvia
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Kuldīga
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Kuldīga District was an administrative division of Latvia, located in Courland region, in the country's west. It was organized into a city and thirteen parishes, each with a local government authority. The main city in the district was Kuldīga.

The district was located in the western part of Latvia on both sides of the Venta River. It had borders with 5 other former districts: Ventspils, Talsi, Tukums, Saldus and Liepāja. The borders of the district that it had when it was dissolved were established in 1950.

Districts were eliminated during the administrative-territorial reform in 2009.

The district occupied an area of 2,499.87 km2, has a population of 37,119 — 13,335 in the main town of Kuldīga.

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