Pürksi
Pürksi is a village in Lääne-Nigula Parish, Lääne County, in western Estonia. Pürksi has about 184 residents.- Type: Hamlet with 184 residents
- Description: village in Lääne-Nigula Rural Municipality, Lääne County, Estonia
- Also known as: “Puerksi” and “Pyurksi”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Noarootsi Church and Noarootsi Churchyard.
Noarootsi Churchyard
Cemetery
Noarootsi Churchyard is a cemetery, which is situated 3½ km north of Pürksi.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hosby and Haapsalu.
Hosby
Hamlet
Hosby is a village in Lääne-Nigula Parish, Lääne County, in western Estonia. Before the administrative reform in 2017, the village was in Noarootsi Parish. Hosby is situated 3 km north of Pürksi.
Haapsalu
Haapsalu is a major seaside resort town on the west coast of Estonia, approximately 100 km south-west of Tallinn.Pürksi
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Pürksi küla / Birkas, Lääne-Nigula Parish, Lääne, Estonia, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
59.00719° or 59° 0′ 26″ north
Longitude
23.52181° or 23° 31′ 19″ east
Population
184
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
Open location code
9GF52G4C+VP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Pürksi from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Armenian to Volapük—“Pürksi” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Պյուռկսի”
- Belarusian: “Пюрксі”
- Cebuano: “Pürksi”
- Chinese: “Pürksi”
- Chinese: “皮爾克西”
- Dutch: “Pürksi”
- Estonian: “Pürksi küla”
- Estonian: “Pürksi”
- French: “Pürksi”
- German: “Pürksi”
- Latvian: “Pirksi”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pürksi”
- Polish: “Pürksi”
- Russian: “Пюркси”
- Serbian: “Пиркси”
- Spanish: “Pürksi”
- Swedish: “Birkas”
- Ukrainian: “Пюрксі”
- Volapük: “Pürksi”
- “Pürksi”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Noarootsi raamatukogu and Pürksi manor house.
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