Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Polish minority in Latvia numbers about 51548 persons and (according to the Latvian data from 2011) form 2.3% of the population of Latvia. Poles are concentrated in the former Inflanty Voivodeship region with about 18000 in Daugavpils (Dyneburg) and 17000 in Riga. People of Polish ethnicity have lived on the territory of modern Latvia since the 16th century.