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==Immigration into Latvia== | ==Immigration into Latvia== | ||
==Emigration From Latvia== | ==Emigration From Latvia== | ||
The majority of Latvians whom left Latvia in WWII reside in North America '''(the US and Canada), across Europe mainly in Eastern countries and the former USSR with just as many in Western Europe and Scandinavian nations''', and the rest in former '''Latvian lands in the Baltic states (Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Belarus)'''. The most Russified of the three Baltic states, Latvia struggles with the issue of national identity after one million ethnic Russians and other Russian speaking people settled there since 1940.<ref>"List of diasporas", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diasporas#L, accessed 26 July 2021.</ref> | *The majority of Latvians whom left Latvia in WWII reside in North America '''(the US and Canada), across Europe mainly in Eastern countries and the former USSR with just as many in Western Europe and Scandinavian nations''', and the rest in former '''Latvian lands in the Baltic states (Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Belarus)'''. The most Russified of the three Baltic states, Latvia struggles with the issue of national identity after one million ethnic Russians and other Russian speaking people settled there since 1940.<ref>"List of diasporas", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diasporas#L, accessed 26 July 2021.</ref> | ||
'''Knomad Statistics:''' Emigrants: 342,300. Top destination countries: '''the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, the United States, Ukraine, Ireland, Germany, Lithuania, Belarus, Norway, Canada.'''<ref>"Latvia", in Knomad, https://www.knomad.org/data/migration/emigration?page=13, accessed 26 July 2021.</ref> | *'''Knomad Statistics:''' Emigrants: 342,300. Top destination countries: '''the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, the United States, Ukraine, Ireland, Germany, Lithuania, Belarus, Norway, Canada.'''<ref>"Latvia", in Knomad, https://www.knomad.org/data/migration/emigration?page=13, accessed 26 July 2021.</ref> | ||
'''"Other significant population centers:"'''<ref>"Latvians", in Wikipedia, accessed 26 July 2021.</ref> | '''"Other significant population centers:"'''<ref>"Latvians", in Wikipedia, accessed 26 July 2021.</ref> | ||
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==Records of Latvian Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ==Records of Latvian Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ||
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