Madona is a town in the Vidzeme region of Latvia and the center of Madona Municipality. Its name comes either from the adjacent Madona Lake or from the German name Madohn or Modohn for the nearby Birzi Manor. The settlement grew up around a railway station established in 1903, received village privileges in 1921 and town rights in 1926. It had a population of about 6,502 across roughly 10.41 square kilometers.
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Founding Year Climate Zone Sources
1. Madona (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)Quote, P1082 (population)
population 6,502 (2026)
2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 56.75, 26.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 56.75, 26.25
56.75 26.25 Dfb
3. GeoNames: Madona - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 457714, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 457714, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
56.85329 26.21698 P PPLA LV 20 0700201 6575 149 Europe/Riga
Madona (Wikipedia)
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Madona (; German: Modohn) is a town with town rights in the Vidzeme region of Latvia and is the center of Madona Municipality.
- In Group: Cities of Northern Europe (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
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