Tartu

Tartu County is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is located in eastern Estonia, and it borders , , , and .
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  • Type: county with 154,000 residents
  • Description: county of Estonia
  • Also known as: Tartu County”, “Tartu maakond”, “Tartu Maakond”, “Tartu Rajoon”, “Tartumaa”, and “Tartuskiy Rayon

Places of Interest

Highlights include Town Hall and Tartu.

Town hall
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
Tartu is the seat of the city government of , . It is located on square, in the city centre.

Railway station
railway station is a railway station in , . railway station is situated west of the centre . It was established in 1876 when –Tartu route was built.

Church
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
St. John's Church, Tartu is a Brick Gothic Lutheran church, one of the landmarks of the city of , . It is dedicated to John the Baptist.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tartu and Karlova.

is the second largest city in with a population of around 98,000. A Hanseatic city and a university town, it's dating back to 1030, and as such it's the oldest city in the Baltics.

Quarter
is a neighbourhood of , . It has a population of 8,856 and an area of 2.30 km2.

Tartu

Latitude
58.3807° or 58° 22′ 50″ north
Longitude
26.725° or 26° 43′ 30″ east
Population
154,000
Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)
Open location code
9GC89PJF+7X
Geo­Names ID
588334
Wiki­data ID
Q192370
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Tartu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: مقاطعة تارتو
  • Armenian: Տարտումաա
  • Azerbaijani: Tartumaa
  • Azerbaijani: Tаrtumаа
  • Basque: Tartu konderria
  • Basque: Tartu maakond
  • Basque: Tartuko konderria
  • Bavarian: Kroas Tartu
  • Belarusian: Акруга Тарту
  • Belarusian: павет Тарту
  • Belarusian: Павет Тарту
  • Belarusian: Тарту, павет
  • Belarusian: Тарту
  • Belarusian: Тартумаа
  • Bengali: তার্তু কাউন্টি
  • Bosnian: Okrug Tartumaa
  • Bulgarian: Тарту
  • Catalan: Comtat de Tartu
  • Catalan: Tartumaa
  • Cebuano: Tartumaa
  • Chechen: Тартумаа
  • Chinese: Tartu Koān
  • Chinese: 塔尔图县
  • Chinese: 塔爾圖縣
  • Cornish: Konteth Tartu
  • Croatian: Okrug Tartu
  • Croatian: Okrug Tartumaa
  • Czech: Tartu maakond
  • Czech: Tartumaa
  • Danish: Tartumaa
  • Dutch: Tartumaa
  • Egyptian Arabic: تارتو (مقاطعه)
  • Egyptian Arabic: تارتو
  • Erzya: Тартумаа ёнкс
  • Esperanto: Distrikto Tartu
  • Esperanto: Tartumaa
  • Estonian: Tartu maakond
  • Faroese: Tartumaa
  • Finnish: Tarton maakunta
  • Finnish: Tartu maakond
  • Finnish: Tartumaa
  • French: Comté de Tartou
  • French: Comté de Tartu
  • French: Maakond de Tartu
  • French: Région de Tartu
  • French: Tartu
  • French: Tartumaa
  • French: Terre de Tartu
  • Galician: Condado de Tartu
  • Galician: Tartumaa
  • Georgian: ტარტუმაა
  • German: EE-78
  • German: Kreis Tartu
  • German: Tartu maakond
  • German: Tartumaa
  • Greek: Επαρχία Τάρτου
  • Greek: Επαρχία Τάρτουμαα
  • Gujarati: ટાર્ટુ કાઉન્ટી
  • Hebrew: טרטו
  • Hebrew: מחוז טארטו
  • Hebrew: מחוז טרטו
  • Hindi: टर्टू काउंटी
  • Hungarian: Tartumaa
  • Iban: Kaunti Tartu
  • Indonesian: County Tartu
  • Indonesian: Tartumaa
  • Irish: Tartumaa
  • Italian: Tartumaa
  • Japanese: タルトゥ県
  • Kannada: ಟಾರ್ಟು ಕೌಂಟಿ
  • Kazakh: Тартумаа
  • Korean: 타르투 주
  • Korean: 타르투주
  • Latvian: Tartu apriņķis
  • Latvian: Tērbatas apriņķis
  • Lithuanian: Tartu apskritis
  • Lithuanian: Tartuma
  • Macedonian: Тарту
  • Macedonian: Тартума
  • Malay: County Tartu
  • Malay: Daerah Tartu
  • Marathi: टार्टू काउंटी
  • Min Nan Chinese: Tartu Koān
  • Moksha: Тарту мааконд
  • Northern Frisian: Tartu (Lunkreis)
  • Northern Frisian: Tartu
  • Northern Sami: Tartumaa
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Tartu maakond
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Tartu
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Tartumaa
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Tartu fylke
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Tartu maakond
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Tartu makond
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Tartumaa
  • Norwegian: Tartu fylke
  • Occitan (post 1500): Comtat de Tartu
  • Ossetian: Тартумаа
  • Persian: استان تارتو
  • Persian: شهرستان تارتو
  • Polish: Prowincja Tartu
  • Polish: Tartu
  • Polish: Tartumaa
  • Portuguese: Condado de Tartu
  • Portuguese: Tartumaa
  • Romanian: Comitatul Tartu
  • Romanian: Judeţul Tartu
  • Romanian: Județul Tartu
  • Romanian: Regiunea Tartu
  • Russian: Дерптский уезд
  • Russian: Тартумаа
  • Russian: Тартуский уезд
  • Russian: Юрьевский уезд
  • Scots: Tartu Coonty
  • Serbian: Tartu maakond
  • Serbian: Tartu
  • Serbian: Округ Тарту
  • Serbian: Тарту
  • Serbian: Тартума
  • Serbo-Croatian: Tartu (okrug)
  • Serbo-Croatian: Tartu
  • Sinhala: ටර්ටු ප්‍රාන්තය
  • Slovenian: EE-78
  • Slovenian: Okrožje Tartu
  • Slovenian: Tartu maakond
  • Slovenian: Tartumaa
  • Spanish: Condado de Tartu
  • Spanish: Tartumaa
  • Swedish: Dorpatland
  • Swedish: Tartu län
  • Swedish: Tartu maakond
  • Swedish: Tartumaa
  • Tamil: டார்டு கவுண்டி
  • Telugu: టార్టు కౌంటీ
  • Thai: มณฑลตาร์ตู
  • Turkish: Tartu ili
  • Turkish: Tartu
  • Udmurt: Тартумаа
  • Ukrainian: Тартумаа
  • Urdu: تارتو کاؤنٹی
  • Vietnamese: Tartu
  • Võro: Tarto maakund
  • Welsh: Sir Tartu
  • Wu Chinese: 塔尔图县
  • Tarto maakund

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About Mapcarta. 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 “Tartu”. Photo: Oskar.susi, CC BY-SA 4.0.