Riga
Americannoun
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a seaport in and the capital of Latvia, on the Gulf of Riga.
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Gulf of, an arm of the Baltic between Latvia and Estonia. 90 miles (145 km) long.
noun
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Online flight trackers spotted a Boeing C-17 Globemaster flying from Riga, Latvia, to Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport, long used by top visiting officials because of its relative proximity to the capital’s center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Ten days into their travels, before they had a chance to visit Leningrad or Riga, Latvia, the four were taken into KGB custody and deported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Anthropologists Alessandro Riga and Luca Bachechi have recovered bone fragments from the site, some of which have been radiocarbon dated.
From Science Daily ● May 4, 2026
In December 2024, Joseph took an Air Baltic flight to the Latvian capital Riga.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
Klava Fomicheva and her navigator, Galya Dzhunkovskaya, both of them long since recovered after parachuting from their burning plane that summer, flew one of these cold and dark missions over northerly Riga.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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