Mäense is a village in

Lääneranna Parish Lääneranna Parish () is a rural municipality in Pärnu County. It includes the town of Lihula. Gallery Lihula.jpg, Lihula town Kõima mõisa peahoone.jpg, Kõima manor in Kõima village Virtsu lighthouse 1.jpg, Lighthouse in Virtsu Settl ...

Pärnu County Pärnu County ( or ''Pärnumaa''; ) 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 north, Järva and Viljandi counties to ...

, in western

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, covering 6.537 km². It is located along the Highway 190 which links the village to National Road 10, and is 1 kilometre away from Massu, the nearest village, and about 110 km in straight-line distance and 128 km in road distance away from

Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...

, the capital of Estonia. It had a population of 20 in the 2000 census and a population of 12 in the 2011 Census. The population is 50% male (6 people) and 50% female (6 people), and there are no children under the age of 18, with 25% over 65 (3 people). All inhabitants of the village identify as ethnic

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. The village is surrounded by

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and

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Facilities

The village has a single

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at the southern end, which provides the inhabitants of the village twice-a-day service to

Lihula Lihula is a town in Lääneranna Parish, Pärnu County, Estonia. Lihula Castle Lihula Castle () was first mentioned in 1211, but it appears the site was used as a fortress since the Iron Age. In 1220, a Swedish army started constructing a ca ...

, once at around 7am and once at around 4:30pm.Bus timetable from Mäense to Lihula (in Estonian). http://www.peatus.ee/#route_search;31980,31981;31241,31896

References

Villages in Pärnu County Kreis Wiek {{Lääne-geo-stub