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Valgejõe

Valgejõe is a village in Kuusalu Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia. Its located on the crossing of the Tallinn–Narva road and the Valgejõgi River. Valgejõe ´white river´ village which comes from 13th century located initially in todays Van ...

Vihterpalu

Vihterpalu is a village in Laane-Harju Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia. Wrestler and Olympic medalist August Neo 1908–1982 was born in Vihterpalu.

Viimsi

Viimsi is a small borough in Harju County, northern Estonia. Its located about 9 km northeast of the centre of Tallinn, just north of Tallinns subdistrict Merivalja. Viimsi is the administrative centre of Viimsi Parish. As of 2011 Census, the set ...

Viinistu

Viinistu is a village in Kuusalu Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia. It is located on the coast of the Gulf of Finland on the Parispea Peninsula, about 7 km north of the town of Loksa. Viinistu has a population of 148. Viinistu was first me ...

Vikipalu

Vikipalu is a village in Anija Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia, located about 5 km east of the town of Kehra. It has a population of 61. Most of the villages territory is covered with forest. River Aavoja flows through the village. Vikip ...

Hanikatsi laid

Hanikatsi laid is an islet in Estonia, in the Baltic Sea, south east of Hiiumaa island. It has a surface area of 83 hectares and no permanent habitation. The islet belongs to Hiiu County, Puhalepa Parish and is part of Hiiumaa Islets Landscape Re ...

Hiiu Parish

Hiiu Parish was a rural municipality of Hiiu County, Estonia. It occupied the northwestern part of the Hiiumaa island. The population was about 5000, about 3600 of whom lived in the parish seat. Hiiu Parish was established by merging the town of ...

Hõralaid

Hõralaid is a small, uninhabited Estonian island of approximately 20 hectares in the Baltic Sea. The coordinates of Hõralaid are 58°53′55″N 23°04′26″E. Hõralaid belongs to the village of Vahtrepa in Puhalepa Parish and is administered by Hiiu Cou ...

Kaina

Kaina is a small borough in Hiiu County on the island of Hiiumaa in Estonia. Prior to the administrative reform of Estonian municipalities in 2017, Kaina was the administrative center of Kaina Parish.

Kõrgelaid

Kõrgelaid is a small, uninhabited, moraine-based island in the Baltic Sea, belonging to the country of Estonia. Its coordinates 58°45′09″N 23°05′35″E. Kõrgelaid lies off the western coast of the Estonian mainland between the islands of Hiiumaa an ...

Kõrgessaare Parish

Kõrgessaare Parish was a rural municipality in the north-west of Hiiu County, Estonia. In 2013 it was merged with the town of Kardla to form a new Hiiu Parish.

Kõverlaid

Kõverlaid is a small, moraine-based Baltic Sea island belonging to the country of Estonia. Its coordinates are 58°49′01″N 23°04′46″E. Kõverlaid covers approximately 29 hectares and lies approximately eleven kilometers from the coast of the island ...

Langekare

Langekare is a small, uninhabited Baltic Sea island belonging to the country of Estonia. Its coordinates are 58°48′21″N 23°09′03″E Langekare is a 1.2 hectare island lying off the eastern coast off the larger Estonian island of Hiiumaa and is admi ...

Luidja

Luidja is a village in Hiiumaa Parish, Hiiu County, on the island of Hiiumaa in Estonia. It is located on the northern coast of the beginning of Kõpu Peninsula, by the Luidja Bay. As of 2011 Census, the villages population was 34. Luidja is the s ...

Oakse

Oakse is an island in the Baltic Sea belonging to the country of Estonia. Oakse comprises 7.6 hectares in area and is located in the Soonlepa Gulf, approximately one km from the Salinõmme Peninsula on the larger island of Hiiumaa to the west and ...

Puhalepa Parish

There were 47 villages in Puhalepa Parish: Ala - Arukula - Hagaste - Harju - Hausma - Hellamaa - Heltermaa - Hiiessaare - Hilleste - Kalgi - Kerema - Kõlunõmme - Kukka - Kuri - Leerimetsa - Linnumae - Lõbembe - Loja - Lõpe - Maavli - Nõmba - Nõmm ...

Saarnaki laid

Saarnaki laid is an uninhabited, moraine-based island in the Baltic Sea belonging to the country of Estonia. Its coordinates are 58°48′38″N 22°59′37″E. Saarnaki laid is a relatively young island; it rose from the Baltic Sea approximately 2.000 ye ...

Uuemaarahu

Uuemaarahu is a small, Baltic Sea islet comprising 0.0234 hectares belonging to the country of Estonia. Uuemaarahu lies 1 kilometer to the southeast of the island of Hellamaa in the Vainameri Strait. It belongs to the administrative municipality ...

Vohilaid

Vohilaid is a small Estonian island in the Baltic Sea. It is approximately 416 hectares and the highest point is approximately ten feet above sea level. Its coordinates are 58°54′42″N 23°02′24″E Vohilaid lies just east of the island of Hiiumaa an ...

Kauksi, Ida-Viru County

Kauksi is a small village in Alutaguse Parish, Ida-Viru County in northeastern Estonia. Kauksi has 59 inhabitants. It lies on the northern side of Estonias largest lake, Peipus. Kauksi was first named in 1543 in an old historical document. In 173 ...

Kohtla

Kohtla is a village in Toila Parish, Ida-Viru County in northeastern Estonia, located just south of the city of Kohtla-Jarve and east of Kohtla-Nõmme borough. It has a population of 78. Before the 2017 Administrative Reform, the village belonged ...

Kohtla Parish

Kohtla Parish was an Estonian municipality located in Ida-Viru County. It has a population of 1640 and an area of 101 km².

Kreenholm

Kreenholm is a river island in Estonia, located in the Narva River, in the city of Narva. The island is 13 hectares 32 acres in area, 750 metres 820 yards long and 250 metres 270 yards wide. The island divides the Narva Waterfall into eastern and ...

Luganuse Parish

Luganuse Parish is a municipality of Ida-Viru County in northern Estonia. As of 1 January 2015, it had a population of 2.941. In October 2013, the neighbouring Maidla Parish and the town of Pussi were merged into Luganuse Parish.

Maetaguse

Maetaguse is a small borough in Ida-Viru County in Alutaguse Parish in northeastern Estonia. It was the administrative centre of Maetaguse Parish. As of 2011 Census, the settlements population was 555, of which the Estonians were 271.

Maetaguse Parish

Maetaguse Parish was an Estonian municipality located in Ida-Viru County. It had a population of 1.556 and an area of 285 km².

Maidla Parish

Maidla Parish was an Estonian municipality located in Ida-Viru County. In October 2013, Maidla Parish along with the town of Pussi were merged into Luganuse Parish, and therefore ceased to exist as sovereign municipalities. In 2004 Maidla Parish ...

Maidla, Ida-Viru County

Maidla manor German: Herrenhaus Wrangelstein traces its history back to at least 1465, although the village is mentioned for the first time as early as the 13th century, in the Danish Census Book. The manor estate has over the centuries belonged ...

Oru, Kohtla-Jarve

Oru is a settlement in Ida-Viru county, Estonia, surrounded by the Toila Parish but administered as an exclave district of the town of Kohtla-Jarve which is located about 20 km to the west of Oru. The settlement was founded in connection with the ...

Vaivara Parish

Vaivara Parish is a former municipality of Ida-Viru County in northern Estonia. It had a population of 1.800 and an area of 397.97 km². Vaivara Parish was abolished in 2017 and its territory became a part of Narva-Jõesuu.

Valaste Waterfall

Valaste Waterfall is the highest waterfall in Estonia and neighboring regions situated between Ontika and Valaste in the Toila Parish of the Ida-Viru County and formed by a stream, as it flows over the Baltic Klint not far from the shore of the G ...

Albu Parish

Albu was a rural municipality of Estonia, in Jarva County. It had a population of 1410 and an area of 257 km 2.

Ambla Parish

Ambla was a rural municipality of Estonia, in Jarva County. It had a population of 2423 and an area of 166 km 2.

Arukula, Jarva County

Arukula ;anor German: Arrokull evolved into an independent estate in the 17th century. The manor house seen today was built in 1782–1789, but suffered damage in a fire around 1800 and was subsequently rebuilt in a typical St. Petersburg-style Neo ...

Imavere Parish

Imavere Parish was a rural municipality of Estonia, in Jarva County. It had a population of 1.025 and an area of 139 km².

Karu

Karu is a small borough in Turi Parish, Jarva County, Estonia. Before the administrative reform in 2017, Karu was the administrative centre of Karu Parish. Karu has a railway station on the Tallinn - Viljandi railway line operated by Elron rail t ...

Kirna, Jarva County

The whole estate was given as a gift to the von Fersen family in 1614 and remained in the ownership for over a hundred years. After 1787, it belonged to various Baltic German and Russian families from the nobility. After 1919 it was used as a sch ...

Koeru

Koeru is a small borough in Jarva Parish, Jarva County in northern-central Estonia. As of 2011 Census, the settlements population was 1.178. The tallest structure in Estonia, Koeru TV Mast, is located near Koeru in Kapu village.

Kolu, Jarva County

Kolu is a village in Turi Parish, Jarva County in central Estonia. Kolu railway station on the Tallinn - Viljandi railway line operated by Elron is a short distance from the village.

Paide Parish

Paide Parish was a rural municipality of Estonia, in Jarva County. It had a population of 1935 and an area of 300 km². Nurmsi Airfield ICAO: EENI is located in the parish. During the Cold War, it hosted a front-line fighter air base "Koigi".

Roosna-Alliku Parish

Roosna-Alliku Parish was a rural municipality of Estonia, in Jarva County. It had a population of 1238 and an area of 132 km².

Vaatsa

Vaatsa is a small borough in Jarva County, in central Estonia. Its located about 6 km west of the town of Paide, and about 9 km north of Turi. Vaatsa is the administrative centre of Vaatsa Parish. Vaatsa has a population of 704. Vaatsa was first ...

Vaatsa Parish

Vaatsa Parish was a rural municipality in central Estonia. It was a part of Jarva County. The municipality had a population of 1.479 and covered an area of 195.33 km². The population density was 7.6 inhabitants per km². Administrative centre of t ...

Vetepere

Vetepere is a village in Jarva Parish, Jarva County in northern-central Estonia. As of 2011 Census, the settlements population was 27. With a comparatively large area, Vetepere comprises several bogs including Kakerdaja, Kautla, Kodru and Laeksaa ...

Adavere

Adavere is a small borough in Põltsamaa Parish, Jõgeva County in central Estonia. It has a population of 632. Just outside the town is the Estonian mainland midpoint symbol denoting.

Jõgeva Parish

Jõgeva Parish is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Jõgeva County. It has a population of 13.513 and an area of 458 km².

Kuningamae

Kuningamae is a village in Põltsamaa Parish, Jõgeva County, Estonia. It is located just west of the town of Põltsamaa. Kuningamae has a populstion of 84. Earlier Kuningamae was a location of Vana-Põltsamaa Manors cattle manor Konigsberg, which ha ...

Laiusevalja

Laiusevalja is a village in Jõgeva Parish, Jõgeva County, Estonia. It is located about 10 km northeast of the town of Jõgeva, adjacent to Laiuse small borough, on the Jõgeva–Mustvee road. Laiusevalja has a population of 119. Laiusevalja is the si ...

Pala Parish

Pala Parish is a former rural municipality in eastern Estonia. It was a part of Jõgeva County. The municipality had a population of 1.363 and covered an area of 156.71 km². The population density was 8.7 inhabitants per km². There was a total of ...

Palamuse

Palamuse is a small borough in Jõgeva County, in Jõgeva Parish, Estonia, located about 12 km southeast of the town of Jõgeva. It is passed by the Amme River. With a population of 551 Palamuse was the biggest settlement and the administrative cent ...