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Miiduranna Harbour
Miiduranna is a village in Viimsi Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia. It's located about northeast of the centre of Tallinn, situated just northwest of Tallinn's subdistrict Merivälja, west of the settlement Viimsi and south of Haabneeme, on the eastern coast of Tallinn Bay. As of 2011 Census, the settlement's population was 358. It is one of the wealthiest regions in Estonia. Half of the village's area is occupied by the Miiduranna Harbour, which is connected to Maardu via railroad. Miiduranna was first mentioned in 1588 as ''Mitorannes''. Miiduranna is connected to the centre of Tallinn by Tallinn Bus Company Tallinna Linnatranspordi AS (TLT) is a transportation company owned by the city of Tallinn, Estonia. TLT is a result of the merger of Tallinn Bus Company (''Tallinna Autobussikoondis'') and Tallinn Tram and Trolleybus Company (''Tallinna Trammi ...'s route nr. 1A (Viru keskus – Viimsi Keskus), average traveling time is about 25 minutes. References Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Populated Places In Estonia
Populated places in Estonia (officially: settlement units), are cities or settlement units of rural municipalities, but only cities have administrative functions. Settlement units are divided into settlements and urban regions et, asum (subdivisions of cities). Officially there are five types of settlement units in Estonia: *town/city ( et, linn) *town without municipal status () *borough () *small borough () *village () See also * Municipalities of Estonia *List of cities and towns in Estonia *Counties of Estonia Counties ( et, maakond, plural ') are the first-level administrative subdivisions of Estonia. Estonian territory is composed of 15 counties, including 13 on the mainland and 2 on islands. The government (') of each county is led by a ' (gover ... Notes External links Place Names Board of Estonia [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merivälja
Merivälja (Estonian for ''"Sea Field"'') is a subdistrict ( et, asum) in the district of Pirita, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It is located on the eastern coast of the Tallinn Bay, and is the northernmost subdistrict of Tallinn. Merivälja has a population of 3,088 (). It is the wealthiest subdistrict of the district of Pirita. See also *Pirita Beach Pirita is one of the eight administrative districts ( et, linnaosa) of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Pirita occupies a relatively big area, but compared to other districts of Tallinn its population of 17,592 (as of 1 November 2014) is relati ... Gallery File:EU-EE-Tallinn-Pirita-Merivälja.JPG, View to Merivälja from Pirita File:EU-EE-Tallinn-Pirita-Merivälja-Merivälja street.JPG, End of Pirita Beach File:EU-EE-Tallinn-Pirita-Merivälja-Downhill to Pirita.JPG, Downhill from Viimsi to Pirita File:EU-EE-Tallinn-Pirita-Merivälja-Buildings in Merivälja.JPG, File:EU-EE-Tallinn-Pirita-Merivälja-Merivälja bus stop. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallinna Autobussikoondis
Tallinna Linnatranspordi AS (TLT) is a transportation company owned by the city of Tallinn, Estonia. TLT is a result of the merger of Tallinn Bus Company (''Tallinna Autobussikoondis'') and Tallinn Tram and Trolleybus Company (''Tallinna Trammi- ja Trollibussikoondis'') in July 2012. The company provides bus, trolleybus, and tram services in Tallinn. History Tallinn Bus Company TAK was founded in 1945 as a state-owned company, under which status it operated until 1993, when it was reorganised as a public limited company owned by the City of Tallinn. Currently, the company is divided into seven operating divisions. Tallinn Tram and Trolleybus Company Tallinn Tram and Trolleybus Company was started in 1997. Merger Tallinn Tram and Trolleybus Company was merged with Tallinn Bus Company, and Tallinna Linnatranspordi AS officially started its operations under the new name on 18 July 2012. At the end of 2019, the company's bus fleet has 529 buses serving 75 bus routes. TLT plans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maardu
Maardu (german: Maart) is a town and a municipality in Harju County, Estonia. It is part of Tallinn metropolitan area. The town covers an area of 22.76 km² and has a population of 16,170 (as of 1 January 2021). The Port of Muuga, the largest cargo port in Estonia, is partly located in Maardu. According to the 2000 Census, the population was 16,738. 61.7% were Russians, 19.9% Estonians, 6.6% Ukrainians, 5.7% Belarusians, 1.5% Tatars, 0.9% Finns, 0.6% Poles, 0.5% Lithuanians, 0.2% Latvians, 0.2% Germans and 0.1% Jews and 1 Cuban. The proportion of Estonians was one of the lowest (if not the lowest) in Central and Western Estonia. Outside the town (in Maardu village), south of the road to Narva lies Maardu manor, one of the oldest preserved baroque manor houses in Estonia. It traces its origins to 1389, but the current building dates from the 1660s with additions made in the 19th century. The landlord of the manor Herman Jensen Bohn in 1739 funded the printing of the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miiduranna Harbour
Miiduranna is a village in Viimsi Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia. It's located about northeast of the centre of Tallinn, situated just northwest of Tallinn's subdistrict Merivälja, west of the settlement Viimsi and south of Haabneeme, on the eastern coast of Tallinn Bay. As of 2011 Census, the settlement's population was 358. It is one of the wealthiest regions in Estonia. Half of the village's area is occupied by the Miiduranna Harbour, which is connected to Maardu via railroad. Miiduranna was first mentioned in 1588 as ''Mitorannes''. Miiduranna is connected to the centre of Tallinn by Tallinn Bus Company Tallinna Linnatranspordi AS (TLT) is a transportation company owned by the city of Tallinn, Estonia. TLT is a result of the merger of Tallinn Bus Company (''Tallinna Autobussikoondis'') and Tallinn Tram and Trolleybus Company (''Tallinna Trammi ...'s route nr. 1A (Viru keskus – Viimsi Keskus), average traveling time is about 25 minutes. References Ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Statistics Estonia
Statistics Estonia ( et, Statistikaamet) is the Estonian government agency responsible for producing official statistics regarding Estonia. It is part of the Ministry of Finance (Estonia), Ministry of Finance. The agency has approximately 320 employees. The office of the agency is in Tatari, Tallinn, Tatari, Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' .... Statistics In November 2018, Statistics Estonia had released a metric of the exports of goods which showed increase by 18% while in December of the same year the industrial producer price index had fallen by .6% in comparison to last month but rose by 1.6%. According to the Statistics Estonia, it weighed pork production of the country and confirmed that the pork production had decreased from 50,000 tons in 2015 to 38 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallinn Bay
Tallinn Bay ( et, Tallinna laht) is a bay in Estonia on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland. The Estonian capital city Tallinn is located on the southern coast of the bay. Tallinn Bay itself is divided into several parts: Tallinn Roadstead (), Kopli Bay, Kakumäe Bay and Paljassaare Bay. The islands Naissaar and Aegna border the bay in the north, the Viimsi Peninsula to the east. The shore waters are shallow but deep rapidly. Tallinn Bay has a steep slope, which allows for good water exchange with the waters of the Gulf of Finland. Tallinn Bay is one of the deepest bays in Estonia, max depth is about 100 m.Autorite kollektiiv. 1996. ''Mereleksikon''. Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus. lk 419 The Old Town is situated close to the sheltered Tallinn bay, which is a natural harbour and the main passenger port. The Paljassaare Harbour and the Bekker Harbor by the Kopli Bay serve for cargo traffic. There are four public beaches on the coastline: Pirita, Stroomi, Kakumäe and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haabneeme
Haabneeme is a small borough ( et, alevik) in Viimsi Parish, Harju County, in northern Estonia alongside Viimsi. It's located about northeast of the centre of Tallinn, on the eastern coast of Tallinn Bay. With a population of 5,634 ( 2011 Census), Haabneeme is the largest settlement in the municipality. Haabneeme was first mentioned in 1271 as ''Apones''. During the Middle Ages Haabneeme was settled by Coastal Swedes. In the 1960s, Haabneeme garden city developed on both sides of the Rohuneeme road in the north. The central settlement was built from the 1960s to 1980s as the centre of the Kirov Fishing Kolkhoz (named after Sergey Kirov). In 1973 a new administrative building was opened. The shopping centre was built in 1976, hospital-polyclinic in 1979. As an addition to apartment buildings, a pension was opened in 1974, stadium in 1978, kindergarten in 1983 and a high school in 1981–1985. Recently, many new buildings such as a spa hotel, a new schoolhouse (2006), a kinderg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viimsi
Viimsi (german: Wiems) is a small borough ( et, alevik) in Harju County, Estonia, about northeast of the centre of Tallinn, just north of Tallinn's subdistrict Merivälja. Viimsi is the administrative centre of Viimsi Parish. As of the 2011 census, its population was 2,341. Viimsi Manor, which was established by St. Brigitta Nunnery (in Pirita), was first mentioned in 1471 as ''Wiems''. After the Great Northern War, the manor had multiple owners, among them the Stenbock, Buxhoeveden, Maydell and Schottländer families. After the dispossession in 1919 the manor was given to the Commander-in-chief of the Estonian Army, General Johan Laidoner, who owned it until 1940. During World War II, it was used by the Red Army. Since 2001, the building has housed the National War Museum of Estonia The Estonian War Museum (full name Estonian War Museum – General Laidoner Museum; et, Eesti Sõjamuuseum – kindral Laidoneri muuseum) is a war museum in Viimsi, Estonia. The museum is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland, the larger islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, and over 2,200 other islands and islets on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, covering a total area of . The capital city Tallinn and Tartu are the two largest urban areas of the country. The Estonian language is the autochthonous and the official language of Estonia; it is the first language of the majority of its population, as well as the world's second most spoken Finnic language. The land of what is now modern Estonia has been inhabited by '' Homo sapiens'' since at least 9,000 BC. The medieval indigenous population of Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viimsi Parish
Viimsi Parish ( et, Viimsi vald) is a rural municipality in Northern Estonia, located North-East and neighbouring the capital Tallinn. It occupies an area of with a population of 20 580 (). The municipality contains the Viimsi Peninsula and several islands, including Naissaar, Prangli, and Aksi. The mayor of Viimsi Parish is Illar Lemetti. Divisions There are two small boroughs () and 20 villages () in Viimsi Parish. Small boroughs Viimsi and Haabneeme. Villages Äigrumäe, Idaotsa, Kelnase, Kelvingi, Laiaküla, Leppneeme, Lõunaküla (Storbyn), Lubja, Lääneotsa, Metsakasti, Miiduranna, Muuga, Pringi, Pärnamäe, Püünsi, Randvere, Rohuneeme, Tagaküla (Bakbyn), Tammneeme, Väikeheinamaa (Lillängin). Religion International relations Twin towns — Sister cities Viimsi Parish is twinned with: * Barleben, Germany * Porvoo, Finland * Ski Municipality, Norway * Sulejówek, Poland * Täby Municipality, Sweden * Ramat Yishai, Israel See also *Viimsi JK ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Estonia Census
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The 2011 Population and Housing Census (PHC 2011) ( et, Rahva ja eluruumide loendus (''REL 2011'')). was a census that was carried out during 31 December 2011 – 31 March 2012 in Estonia by Statistics Estonia. The total actual population recorded was 1,294,455 persons. See also *Demographics of Estonia References External linksResults at Statistics Estonia Censuses in Estonia Demographics of Estonia Ethnic groups in Estonia 2011 in Estonia Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
