Valka Municipality
Valka Municipality (Latvian: Valkas novads; Estonian: Valka piirkond) is a municipality in Vidzeme, Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2009 by merging Valka town, Ērģeme Parish, Kārķi Parish, Valka Parish, Vijciems Parish and Zvārtava Parish; the administrative centre being Valka. In 2016 it was announced that due to better welfare and higher salaries in neighbouring Estonia, over 10% of municipality's inhabitants have registered themselves as inhabitants of Valga County. The population in 2020 was 7,603.
Twin towns — sister cities
Valka is twinned with:
Braslaw, Belarus
Çamlıyayla, Turkey
Durbuy, Belgium
I'billin, Israel
Kościelisko, Poland
Kobylnica, Poland
Kutaisi, Georgia
Marijampolė, Lithuania
Novoye Devyatkino, Russia
Orimattila, Finland
Östhammar, Sweden
Tvrdošín, Slovakia
Uusikaupunki, Finland
Valga, Estonia
Valga, Spain
Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, Germany
Images
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Boundaries of the municipality from 2009 to 2021