Suur Munamägi (; translation "Great Egg Mountain") is the highest peak in

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 ...

(and the Baltic states), reaching above

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. It is located near the village of

Haanja Haanja ( vro, Haani; german: Hahnshof) is a village in Rõuge Parish, Võru County, in southeastern Estonia. (retrieved 28 July 2021) It's located 16 km south from the town of Võru. Between 1991 and 2017 (until the administrative reform of ...

, in

Võru County Võru County ( et, Võru maakond or ''Võrumaa''; vro, Võro maakund) is a county in southern Estonia. It is bordered by Valga County and Põlva County and is the only Estonian county bordering two countries - Latvia ( Alūksne Municipality an ...

in the south-eastern corner of Estonia, close to the borders of both Latvia and

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. The landscape around the peak — the Haanja Upland — is gently hilly. The Suur Munamägi Tower is located at the top of peak. File:Sügisesära Munamäe jalamil.jpg, Mount Suur Munamägi in Southern Estonia File:Haanja kõrgustik.jpg, Suur Munamagi in Southern Estonia File:Haanja Upland.jpg, Hilly and forested landscape around Suur Munamägi File:Suur-Munamäe vaatetorn.jpg, Suur Munamägi Tower

External links

Suur Munamägi website

Gallery of the tower
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See also

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