Nõva is a village in

Lääne-Nigula Parish Lääne-Nigula Parish () is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Lääne County. It has a population of 7,041 (as of 1 January 2019) and an area of . Lääne-Nigula Parish was established by merging Oru, Risti, and Taebla parishes after the mu ...

Lääne County Lääne County ( or ''Läänemaa'', literally "Western land"; ; ) is one of the 15 counties of Estonia. It is located in western Estonia and borders the Baltic Sea to the north, Harju County to the north-east, Rapla County to the east, Pärnu Cou ...

, on the northwestern coast of

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

. It was the administrative centre of Nõva Parish. Nõva had a population of 136 as of 2010. Nõva was first mentioned in 1402 as ''Neyve''; the name is believed to originate from the same Finno-Ugric root which has given a name to

Neva River The Neva ( , ; , ) is a river in northwestern Russia flowing from Lake Ladoga through the western part of Leningrad Oblast (historical region of Ingria) to the Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland. Despite its modest length of , it is the fourth-l ...

. Nõva is home to wooden St. Olaf's church, which was built somewhere in the 18th century. Educator and publisher Friedrich Brandt (1830–1890) served as a sacristan in Nõva in the 1870s. Swedish politician

Ilmar Reepalu Ilmar Reepalu (born 11 October 1943) is a Swedish Social Democrat politician of Estonian origin who was the 17th chairman of the municipal board in Malmö from 1994 to 2013. After a professional life as an urban planner in Borås and Malmö, he ...

was born in Nõva in 1943.

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Villages in Lääne County Kreis Harrien {{lääne-geo-stub