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# Jūrmala

A settlement in Latvia.

## English name

**Jūrmala** — Latvian official Latin-script name; retain its macron in edited English.

Other forms in use:

- **Jurmala** — Common diacritic-free international spelling of the Latvian name.
- **Rīgas Jūrmala** — Name of the predecessor municipality, 1920–1946; it covered only part of the present city.
- **Rigas Jurmala** — Diacritic-free form of the predecessor municipality’s Latvian name, 1920–1946.
- **Rigasche Strand** — Historical German name for the Riga seaside resort area; its extent need not match the present municipality.
- **Рижское взморье** — Historical Russian description of the Riga seaside resort area, not a Latin-script name.
- **Юрмала** — Russian Cyrillic form of the present name.

## French name

**Jūrmala** — Same Latvian spelling as in English; French travel sources also omit the macron. No article forms part of the name.

Other forms in use:

- **Jurmala** — Common form without the Latvian macron in French travel writing.
- **Iourmala** — French transcription through Russian, attested in Courrier international and French geographical research; secondary to the Latvian form.
- **Rigasche Strand** — German historical resort-area name, relevant in French accounts of Baltic tourism before the modern city.
- **Rigastrand** — German historical form specifically recorded in French geographical references; its resort-area scope differs from the modern municipality.

## About

Jūrmala is a Latvian seaside city stretching along the Gulf of Riga, west of Riga. Sandy beaches, pine woods and wooden resort houses are characteristic of its neighbourhoods.

## Notes

The modern city includes older resort settlements such as Majori and Ķemeri; their names are not synonyms for the whole city. Historical resort-area labels have variable boundaries.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q178382](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q178382) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/latvia/jurmala/?format=json)


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