Viimsi
Viimsi is a small borough in Harju County, Estonia, about 9 km northeast of the centre of Tallinn, just north of Tallinn's subdistrict Merivälja. Viimsi is the administrative centre of Viimsi Parish.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,740 residents
- Description: township in Viimsi Rural Municipality, Harju County, Estonia
- Also known as: “Myza Viymsi” and “Wiems”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Estonian War Museum and Pirita convent.
Estonian War Museum
Museum
Photo: Loodushuviline, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Estonian War Museum is a war museum in Viimsi, Estonia. The museum is dedicated to military history of Estonia. The museum is named after Estonian general Johan Laidoner.
Pirita convent
Archaeological site
Pirita Convent was a Bridgettine convent for both nuns and monks, located in the district of Pirita in Tallinn, Estonia. It functioned from 1407 to 1575. Pirita convent is situated 4 km south of Viimsi.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pärnamäe and Miiduranna.
Pärnamäe
Hamlet
Photo: Aulo Aasmaa, CC BY 3.0.
Pärnamäe is a village in Viimsi Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia. It's located about 9 km northeast of the centre of Tallinn, situated just north of Tallinn's subdistrict Mähe and east of the settlement Viimsi. Pärnamäe has a population of 1,191.
Miiduranna
Hamlet
Photo: Dmitry G, Public domain.
Miiduranna is a village in Viimsi Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia. It is located about 8 km northeast of the centre of Tallinn, situated just northwest of Tallinn's subdistrict Merivälja, west of the settlement of Viimsi and south of Haabneeme, on the eastern coast of Tallinn Bay.
Viimsi
- Categories: township and locality
- Location: Viimsi alevik, Viimsi Parish, Harju, Estonia, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
59.50017° or 59° 30′ 1″ northLongitude
24.84307° or 24° 50′ 35″ eastPopulation
1,740Elevation
54 metres (177 feet)United Nations Location Code
EE VIIOpen location code
9GF6GR2V+36OpenStreetMap ID
node 1973425521OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Võro—“Viimsi” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Վիիմսի”
- Belarusian: “Віймсі”
- Cebuano: “Viimsi”
- Chinese: “維姆西”
- Chinese: “维姆西”
- Czech: “Viimsi”
- Danish: “Viimsi”
- Danish: “Wiems”
- Dutch: “Viimsi”
- Erzya: “Виймси”
- Estonian: “Viimsi alevik”
- Estonian: “Viimsi”
- French: “Viimsi”
- German: “Viimsi”
- German: “Wiems”
- Hebrew: “ווימסי”
- Lithuanian: “Vymsis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Viimsi”
- Persian: “ویمسی”
- Polish: “Viimsi”
- Russian: “Виймси”
- Slovenian: “Viimsi”
- Spanish: “Viimsi”
- Swedish: “Viimsi”
- Swedish: “Wiems”
- Ukrainian: “Виймси”
- Ukrainian: “Віймсі”
- Volapük: “Viimsi”
- Võro: “Viimsi”
- “Viimsi”
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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 “Viimsi”. Photo: Loodushuviline, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.