Virtsu
Virtsu is a small borough in Lääneranna Parish, Pärnu County, Estonia. It lies on the western coast of continental Estonia, and is a location of the main port for traffic to and from Saaremaa, the largest island of Estonia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 539 residents
- Description: township in Lääneranna Rural Municipality, Pärnu County, Estonia
- Also known as: “Myza Verder”, “Myza Virtsu”, “Verder’”, “Werder”, and “Wirtsu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Virtsu Lighthouse and Kõbajalaid.
Virtsu Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Virtsu Lighthouse is a lighthouse located in Virtsu, Lääne County, in Estonia. The lighthouse is used as a signal for the Suur Strait.
Virtsu
- Categories: township and locality
- Location: Virtsu alevik, Lääneranna Parish, Pärnu County, Estonia, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
58.57157° or 58° 34′ 18″ northLongitude
23.5115° or 23° 30′ 41″ eastPopulation
539Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)United Nations Location Code
EE VIROpen location code
9GC5HGC6+JJOpenStreetMap ID
node 34087543OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Virtsu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلدة فيرتسو”
- Armenian: “Վիռցու”
- Belarusian: “Віртсу”
- Bulgarian: “Вирцу”
- Cebuano: “Virtsu”
- Chinese: “維爾楚”
- Chinese: “维尔楚”
- Czech: “Virtsu”
- Czech: “Werder”
- Dutch: “Virtsu”
- Estonian: “Virtsu alevik”
- Estonian: “Virtsu”
- Finnish: “Virtsu”
- French: “Virtsu”
- Galician: “Virtsu”
- German: “Virtsu”
- German: “Werder”
- Latvian: “Virtsu”
- Lithuanian: “Virtsu”
- Persian: “ویرتسو”
- Polish: “Virtsu”
- Russian: “Виртсу”
- Spanish: “Virtsu”
- Swedish: “Virtsu”
- Ukrainian: “Віртсу”
- Uzbek: “Virtsu”
- Volapük: “Virtsu”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Virtsu”. Photo: Kruusamägi, CC BY-SA 4.0.