Baloži
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Baloži is a town
Town
A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 of Latvia
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

 situated in the Ķekava municipality
Ķekava municipality
Ķekava municipality is a municipality in Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2009 by merging Baloži town, Daugmale parish and Ķekava parish the administrative centre being Ķekava.- References :...

. As of 2006, the city has a population of 4,481.

Baloži was founded soon after the Second World War; as a village at the time, it was developed for the nearby peat
Peat
Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation matter or histosol. Peat forms in wetland bogs, moors, muskegs, pocosins, mires, and peat swamp forests. Peat is harvested as an important source of fuel in certain parts of the world...

 factory workers. Baloži has been classified as a city since 1991.

See also

List of cities in Latvia
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