Salaspils Municipality

Salaspils Municipality (Latvian: Salaspils novads) is a municipality in Vidzeme, Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2004 by reorganization of Salaspils town and its rural territory, the administrative centre being Salaspils. In 2010 the rural territory was renamed Salaspils parish. The population in 2020 was 22,758.^[3]

Salaspils Municipality Salaspils novads
Municipality
Flag Coat of arms
Country	Latvia
Formed	2004
Centre	Salaspils
Government
• Council Chair	Raivis Anspaks (JV)
Area [1]
• Total	122.81 km2 (47.42 sq mi)
• Land	100.01 km2 (38.61 sq mi)
• Water	22.8 km2 (8.8 sq mi)
Population  (2024)[2]
• Total	23,694
• Density	190/km2 (500/sq mi)
Website	www.salaspils.lv

Twin towns — sister cities

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Latvia

Politics

The Salaspils municipal council consists of 15 seats. Below is the composition of the council:

Municipal council seats
Party	2021
New Unity	8
National Alliance	3
Latvian Green Party	3
Social Democratic Party "Harmony"	1
Total	15

Patron of the University of Latvia

Salaspils municipality is a silver patron of the University of Latvia Foundation. Has been supporting the University of Latvia since 2013, when a scholarship was established to support young people in their region who start basic studies in one of Latvia's higher education institutions, fulfilling the criteria, support is provided throughout the basic studies.^[4]

Salaspils is twinned with:^[5]

• Finspång, Sweden
• Finsterwalde, Germany
• Wieliszew, Poland

See also

• Administrative divisions of Latvia