Tootsi is a

borough A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries. In principle, the term ''borough'' designates a self-governing walled town, although in practice, official use of the term varies widely. History In the Middle Ag ...

( et, alev) in

Põhja-Pärnumaa Parish Põhja-Pärnumaa Parish ( et, Põhja-Pärnumaa vald) is a rural municipality in Pärnu County.http://www.pparnumaa.ee/ (accessed 7 March 2020) Settlements ;Boroughs Pärnu-Jaagupi, Tootsi, Vändra ;Villages There are 86 villages: Aasa, Al ...

Pärnu County Pärnu County ( et, Pärnu maakond or ''Pärnumaa''; german: Kreis Pernau) is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is situated in the south-western part of the country, on the coast of Gulf of Riga, and borders Lääne and Rapla counties to the nor ...

], in southwestern

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 ...

. Before the administrative reform in 2017, Tootsi had a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

status of its own as Tootsi Parish () within

. It has the population of 951 (as of 1 January 2009) and an area of 1.76 km². Tootsi was founded in 1938, and in 1949 was granted borough rights. Until December 2018 Tootsi had a station on the

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 ' ...

- Pärnu railway line operated by Elron located in the neighbouring village of

Elbi Elbi is a village in Tori Parish, Pärnu County in southwestern Estonia. (retrieved 28 July 2021) Tootsi station on the Edelaraudtee Edelaraudtee (''Southwestern railway'') is an Estonian railway operator founded in 1997. AS Edelaraudtee o ...

. There is a museum dedicated to the peat industry in Tootsi. Musician and playwright

Ivar Põllu Ivar (Old Norse ''Ívarr'') is a Scandinavian masculine given name. Another variant of the name is Iver, which is more common in Norway. The Old Norse name has several possible etymologies. In North Germanic phonology, several of the elements c ...

was born in Tootsi in 1974. Tootsi peat factory

References

External links

Official website
Põhja-Pärnumaa Parish Boroughs and small boroughs in Estonia Populated places in Pärnu County Former municipalities of Estonia {{pärnu-geo-stub