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Trīsciems (loosely translated as 'Three-village') is a
neighbourhood A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourh ...
of
Riga Riga ( ) is the capital, Primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Latvia, largest city of Latvia. Home to 591,882 inhabitants (as of 2025), the city accounts for a third of Latvia's total population. The population of Riga Planni ...
, the capital of
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. It's located on the north of the city and is dominated by individual housing. The total area of Trīsciems neighborhood is 11,319 km2, which is about two times more than the average area of the neighborhoods of Riga. An area of Trīsciems, where the Langa River flows into Ķīšezers Lake, was the historical location of (). It is the birthplace of
Baltic German Baltic Germans ( or , later ) are Germans, ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia. Since Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950), their resettlement in 1945 after the end ...
diplomat and officer Andreas Eberhard von Budberg.


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