Rootsiküla
Rootsiküla is one of the four villages on the island of Kihnu, in southwestern Estonia. Administratively it belongs to Kihnu Parish, Pärnu County. The village occupies the southern part of the island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet with 104 residents
- Description: village in Kihnu Rural Municipality, Pärnu County, Estonia
- Also known as: “Rootsi”, “Rootsikuela”, “Rootsiküla, Pärnu County”, and “Rotsikyula”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kihnu and Kihnu Lighthouse.
Kihnu
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kihnu is an Estonian island in the Baltic Sea. With an area of 16.4 km. There are four villages: Lemsi, Linaküla, Rootsiküla, and Sääre. Kihnu can be reached by plane from Pärnu or by ferry from Manilaid.
Kihnu Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Kihnu Lighthouse is a lighthouse located in Kihnu, an island in the northern Gulf of Riga in Pärnu County, in Estonia. The lighthouse was prefabricated in England; and assembled in 1865.
Rootsiküla
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Rootsiküla, Kihnu Parish, Pärnu County, Estonia, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
58.11131° or 58° 6′ 41″ northLongitude
23.98223° or 23° 58′ 56″ eastPopulation
104Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)Open location code
9GC54X6J+GVOpenStreetMap ID
node 1973429859OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
588961Wikidata ID
Q3454333
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Volapük—“Rootsiküla” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ռոոցիկյուլա”
- Belarusian: “Роатсікюла (Пярнумаа)”
- Belarusian: “Роатсікюла”
- Cebuano: “Rootsiküla”
- Chinese: “Rootsiküla”
- Chuvash: “Роотсикӳла (Кихну)”
- Chuvash: “Роотсикӳла”
- Dutch: “Rootsiküla”
- Estonian: “Rootsiküla”
- French: “Rootsiküla”
- German: “Rootsiküla”
- Hungarian: “Rootsiküla”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rootsiküla”
- Polish: “Rootsiküla”
- Russian: “Роотсикюла”
- Spanish: “Rootsiküla”
- Swedish: “Rootsiküla, Kynö”
- Swedish: “Rootsiküla”
- Tatar: “Роотсикүла (Киһну)”
- Tatar: “Роотсикүла”
- Volapük: “Rootsiküla”
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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 “Rootsiküla”. Photo: Andrusu, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.