Lifliand province (Geographic Playing Card)

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Title:

Lifliand province

Subject:

Regional Diversity

Creator:

Konstantin Matveevich Gribanov

Source:

Album of Geographical Playing Cards of Russia, arranged on 80 cards according to maritime basin (A wonderful and instructive child's game of patience)

Publisher:

Library of Congress; Russian National Library

Date:

1856

Rights:

Access provided by the Library of Congress strictly for noncommercial educational and research purposes.

Language:

Russian

Region:

Baltic region

Capital:

Riga

Area (sq. miles):

17,948

Population:

814,100

Population density:

45.4 people per square mile

Ethnicity of inhabitants:

Latvians, Estonians, Livonians, Russians, Germans, Poles, Jews

Economic activities:

factories, crop farming, fishing, flax, quarrying

Trade:

Trade is rather active.

Cities:

Notable features:

Fortress

Climate:

temperate but changeable

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