The Doctor Doom guide
Latveria, Doctor Doom's kingdom
A small Eastern European monarchy in the Carpathian Mountains, ruled by Doom for most of its history in the comics. The facts at a glance.
- Official name
- Kingdom of Latveria
- Location
- Eastern Europe, in the Carpathians, bordering Symkaria to the south (placed in the Alps, the Banat and the Balkans in different sources)
- Capital
- Doomstadt (formerly Haasenstadt), just north of the Kline River; Castle Doom, formerly Castle Sabbat
- Landmarks
- Doomsport airport, Cynthia von Doom Memorial Park, the Doomstadt Rathauz, Doom Island
- Population
- About 500,000 (Marvel Atlas #1, 2007), an estimate, since no outside census has been allowed
- Government
- An absolute monarchy Doom called enforced; the Fortunov dynasty ruled before him
- Currency
- The Latverian franc
- Motto
- A vow to master everything that lies ahead
- Languages
- Latverian, German, Hungarian, Romany
- Holiday
- Doom's Day
- Ruled in his absence by
- Prince Rudolfo; the Red Skull; Prince Zorba Fortunov; Kristoff Vernard; Reed Richards (FF #503); General Karadick (2016); Thaddeus Ross, who renamed it New America (Avengers: Armageddon, 2026)
- Now
- Under Ross's occupation in Avengers: Armageddon; under Doom's will, Valeria owns his estate: just over five billion dollars in liquid assets, about twenty properties and hundreds of patents (The Will of Doom #1, as reported by Screen Rant)