Hiiu is a subdistrict ( et, asum) in the district of

Nõmme Nõmme ( Estonian for ''"Heath"'') is one of the 8 administrative districts ( et, linnaosa) of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It has a population of 39,422 () and covers an area of , population density is . The district is largely a middle-cla ...

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 ' ...

, the capital of

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 ...

. It covers an area of and has a population of 3,986 (), population density is . Hiiu has a station on the Elron western route. The first

narrow gauge A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and . Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curves, smaller structu ...

railway station was built to Hiiu in 1913.

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File:Hiiu raudteepeatus.jpg, Hiiu train station File:Vabaduse puiestee 20081.jpg, Vabaduse puiestee, the main road of

District in Hiiu. File:Hiiu grain elevator.JPG, Grain elevator File:Glehni loss 02.jpg,

Glehn Castle The Glehn Castle ( et, Glehni loss, also Mustamäe Manor, german: Hohenhaupt) is a castle on the hillside of Nõmme, part of Tallinn, Estonia. History The manor was designed and established by Nikolai von Glehn on the northern part of the l ...

File:Mustamäe suusahüppetornid.jpg, Mustamäe ski jumping hill File:Nõmme Ristija Johannese kirik 1.jpg, Nõmme St. John the Forerunner Orthodox Church

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Subdistricts of Tallinn {{Tallinn-geo-stub

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