Valka Municipality
Introduction '''Valka Municipality''' (; ) 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
See also *Administrative divisions of Latvia
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