Valka Municipality
# Valka Municipality

Valka Municipality (Latvian: Valkas novads; Estonian: Valka piirkond) 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
