Latvia is about 1.9 times smaller than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 52.82% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (17.5 million fewer people live in Latvia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Latvia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.