Kundziņsala is an area and island on the river Daugava in Riga

Riga

Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...

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Latvia

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. The name Kundziņsala means "The nobleman's island" in Latvian

Latvian language

Latvian is the official state language of Latvia. It is also sometimes referred to as Lettish. There are about 1.4 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and about 150,000 abroad. The Latvian language has a relatively large number of non-native speakers, atypical for a small language...

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Kundziņsala is the biggest island in Riga

Riga

Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...

. Mainly it is an industrial region, used for maritime trade. Prior to the 1930s, it had some permanent residences.

On the island small lakes exist, in which local residents bathe.

The sole public transportation route to the island is the Rigas Satiksme

Rigas Satiksme

Rīgas Satiksme is a limited liability company of Riga municipality which operates public transport and vehicle hire in the Latvian capital Riga and its surrounding areas. The organisation's principal activities involve the operation of the city's 476 buses, 354 trolleybuses and 267 trams. It is...

 #33 bus. The sole bridge to Kundziņsala connects it with the Sarkandaugava

Sarkandaugava

Sarkandaugava is a neighbourhood of Riga, Latvia.- Origins of the name :The name of the neighbourhood derives from that of the Sarkandaugava , a minor arm of the Daugava that formerly separated Pētersala from the mainland. As Riga developed and expanded, more and more of the Sarkandaugava was...

neighborhood.