The Belarus–Latvia border is of length. It spans from the

tripoint A triple border, tripoint, trijunction, triple point, or tri-border area is a geography, geographical point at which the boundaries of three countries or Administrative division, subnational entities meet. There are 175 international tripoints ...

with

Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...

to the tripoint with

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. It is an

external border of the European Union The border of the European Union consists of the land borders that member states of the EU share with non-EU states adjacent to the union. The EU shares land borders with 21 countries and 3 dependencies. List The lengths of the borders the Eu ...

. The current border between the republics of

Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

(CIS member) and

Latvia Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It borders Russia to the east and Belarus to t ...

(EU member) was established after the

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and confirmed by an agreement of 21 February 1994 about the establishment of the border, finalized on April 10, 2013, in the agreement about the functioning of the border.ДОГОВОР между Правительством Латвийской Республики и Правительством Республики Беларусь о режиме латвийско - белорусской государственной границы
/ref> For about , the border runs along the

Daugava River The Daugava ( ), also known as the Western Dvina or the Väina River, is a large river rising in the Valdai Hills of Russia that flows through Belarus and Latvia into the Gulf of Riga of the Baltic Sea. The Daugava rises close to the source of ...

. It also crosses the Lake Rychy and an island in the lake. The border starts from the triple junction of the borders with

( ) and continues to the east to the triple junction of the borders with

( )

Border crossings

The May 10, 2006 decree of the President of Belarus no. 313 established the following border crossings.Указ Президента Республики Беларусь от 10 мая 2006 г. № 313
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References

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