Käo is a village in

Elva Parish Elva is a rural parish in the Estonian Tartu County with an area of . As of 2017, it has a population of 14241 inhabitants. It was created in 2017 from the merger of the municipality Elva with the rural communities Konguta Parish, Puhja Parish, ...

, Tartu County in southern

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 ...

. (retrieved 28 July 2021) It has a population of 52 (as of 1 January 2005). Käo is the birthplace of Estonian poet and writer

Jaan Kärner Jaan Kärner (27 May 1891, in Käo village, then Kirepi Parish (now Elva Parish), Kreis Dorpat – 3 April 1958 in Tartu) was an Estonian poet and writer. He is known especially for his nature poetry. Many of his poems were set to music by Est ...

(1891-1958).

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Villages in Tartu County {{Tartu-geo-stub