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Lääne-Viru County

Lääne-Viru County is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is in northern Estonia, on the south coast of the Gulf of Finland. In Estonian, lääne means 'western' and ida means 'east' or 'eastern'.
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  • Type: county with 58,400 residents
  • Description: county in Estonia
  • Also known as: “Lääne-Viru maakond”, “Lääne-Viru Maakond”, “Lääne-Virumaa”, “Laeaene-Virumaa”, “Lyaene-Viruskiy Rayon”, “Rakvere Rajoon”, and “Rakvereskiy Rayon”

Lääne-Viru County

Latitude
59.25° or 59° 15′ north
Longitude
26.3333° or 26° 20′ east
Population
58,400
Elevation
116 metres (381 feet)
Open location code
9GF8782M+28
Geo­Names ID
590854
Wiki­data ID
Q189952
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Lääne-Viru County” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة لين-فيرو”
  • Armenian: “Լյաենե-Վիրումաա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lyaene-Virumaa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lyaenе-Virumаа”
  • Basque: “Lääne-Viruko konderria”
  • Belarusian: “Ляэнэ-Віру”
  • Belarusian: “Ляэнэ-Вірумаа”
  • Belarusian: “Павет Ляэнэ-Віру”
  • Bengali: “লাআনে-ভিরু কাউন্টি”
  • Bosnian: “Okrug Lääne-Virumaa”
  • Bulgarian: “Лаане Виру”
  • Bulgarian: “Лаане-Виру”
  • Bulgarian: “Леене-Виру”
  • Bulgarian: “Ляяне-Виру”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Lääne-Viru”
  • Catalan: “Comtat de Lääne-Viru”
  • Catalan: “Virumaa occidental”
  • Cebuano: “Lääne-Virumaa”
  • Chechen: “Ляэне-Вирумаа”
  • Chinese: “Lääne-Viru Koān”
  • Chinese: “西維魯縣”
  • Chinese: “西维鲁县”
  • Cornish: “Konteth Lääne-Viru”
  • Croatian: “Okrug Lääne-Viru”
  • Croatian: “Okrug Lääne-Virumaa”
  • Czech: “Lääne-Viru maakond”
  • Czech: “Lääne-Viru”
  • Czech: “Lääne-Virumaa”
  • Danish: “Lääne-Virumaa”
  • Dutch: “Laane-Virumaa”
  • Dutch: “Lääne-Virumaa”
  • Erzya: “Ляэне-Вирумаа ёнкс”
  • Esperanto: “Distrikto Lääne-Viru”
  • Esperanto: “Distrikto Lääne”
  • Esperanto: “Lääne-Viru”
  • Esperanto: “Laane-Virumaa”
  • Esperanto: “Lääne-Virumaa”
  • Estonian: “Lääne-Viru maakond”
  • Estonian: “Lääne-Viru”
  • Estonian: “Lääne-Virumaa”
  • Faroese: “Lääne-Virumaa”
  • Finnish: “Länsi-Virumaa”
  • French: “Comté de Viru occidental”
  • French: “Comté de Viru-Ouest”
  • French: “Laane-Virumaa”
  • French: “Lääne-Virumaa”
  • French: “Région du Viru Occidental”
  • French: “Terre du Viru Occidental”
  • French: “Viru occidental”
  • French: “Virumaa occidental”
  • Galician: “Condado de Lääne-Viru”
  • Galician: “Lääne-Virumaa”
  • Georgian: “ლიაენე-ვირუმაა”
  • German: “EE-59”
  • German: “Kreis Lääne-Viru”
  • German: “Lääne-Virumaa”
  • German: “West-Wierland”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία Λέενε-Βίρου”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία Λέενε-Βίρουμαα”
  • Gujarati: “લાને-વીરુ કાઉન્ટી”
  • Hebrew: “לאנה-וירו”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז לאנה וירו”
  • Hindi: “लाएन-विरु काउंटी”
  • Hungarian: “Lääne-Virumaa”
  • Indonesian: “County Laane-Viru”
  • Indonesian: “County Lääne-Viru”
  • Indonesian: “Daerah Lääne-Viru”
  • Indonesian: “Lääne-Viru maakond”
  • Irish: “Virumaa Thiar”
  • Italian: “Laane-Virumaa”
  • Italian: “Lääne-Virumaa”
  • Japanese: “レーネ-ヴィル県”
  • Japanese: “レーネ＝ヴィル”
  • Japanese: “レーネ＝ヴィル県”
  • Japanese: “レーネ＝ビル”
  • Japanese: “レーネ＝ビル県”
  • Japanese: “レーネヴィル”
  • Japanese: “レーネヴィル県”
  • Japanese: “レーネビル”
  • Japanese: “レーネビル県”
  • Kannada: “ಲಾನ್-ವಿರು ಕೌಂಟಿ”
  • Korean: “래네비루 주”
  • Korean: “래네비루주”
  • Latvian: “Lēne-Viru apriņķis”
  • Latvian: “Rietumviru apriņķis”
  • Lithuanian: “Lääne-Viru”
  • Lithuanian: “Liane Viruma”
  • Lithuanian: “Vakarų Viru apskritis”
  • Lithuanian: “Vakarų Viru”
  • Lithuanian: “Vakarų Viruma”
  • Macedonian: “Лене-Виру”
  • Macedonian: “Љаене-Виру”
  • Malay: “County Lääne-Viru”
  • Malay: “Daerah Lääne-Viru”
  • Marathi: “लोन-विरु काउंटी”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lääne-Viru Koān”
  • Moksha: “Ляэнэ-Виру мааконд”
  • Moksha: “Ляэнэ-Вирумаа”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lääne-Viru (Lunkreis)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lääne-Viru”
  • Northern Sami: “Oarje-Virumaa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lääne-Viru maakond”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lääne-Viru”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lääne-Virumaa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lääne Viru maakond”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Laane-Viru fylke”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lääne-Viru fylke”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lããne-Viru fylke”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Laane-Viru maakond”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lääne-Viru maakond”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lããne-Viru maakond”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Laane-Viru makond”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lääne-Viru makond”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lããne-Viru makond”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Laane-Virumaa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lääne-Virumaa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lããne-Virumaa”
  • Norwegian: “Lääne-Viru fylke”
  • Ossetian: “Ляэне-Вирумаа”
  • Persian: “استان لنه-ویرو”
  • Persian: “شهرستان لنه-ویرو”
  • Polish: “Lääne-Virumaa”
  • Polish: “Prowincja Lääne Viru”
  • Polish: “Virumaa Zachodnia”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Lääne-Viru”
  • Portuguese: “Lääne-Virumaa”
  • Portuguese: “Região de Lääne-Viru”
  • Portuguese: “Viru Ocidental”
  • Portuguese: “Virumaa Ocidental”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Lääne-Viru”
  • Romanian: “Judeţul Lääne-Viru”
  • Romanian: “Județul Lääne-Viru”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Laane-Viru”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Lääne-Viru”
  • Russian: “Ляэне-Вирумаа”
  • Russian: “Ляэне-Вируский уезд”
  • Scots: “Lääne-Viru Coonty”
  • Serbian: “Lääne-Viru maakond”
  • Serbian: “Ljaene-Viru”
  • Serbian: “Лане-Вирума”
  • Serbian: “Љаене-Виру”
  • Serbian: “Округ Лаане-Виру”
  • Serbian: “Округ Љаене-Виру”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lääne-Viru”
  • Sinhala: “ලානේ -විරූ කලාපය”
  • Slovenian: “Lääne-Viru maakond”
  • Slovenian: “okrožje Lääne - Viru”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Laane Viru”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Laäne Viru”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Lääne Viru”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Laane-Viru”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Laäne-Viru”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Lääne-Viru”
  • Spanish: “Laane Viru”
  • Spanish: “Laäne Viru”
  • Spanish: “Lääne Viru”
  • Spanish: “Laane Virumaa”
  • Spanish: “Laäne Virumaa”
  • Spanish: “Lääne Virumaa”
  • Spanish: “Laane-Viru”
  • Spanish: “Laäne-Viru”
  • Spanish: “Lääne-Viru”
  • Spanish: “Laane-Virumaa”
  • Spanish: “Laäne-Virumaa”
  • Swedish: “Lääne-Viru län”
  • Swedish: “Lääne-Virumaa”
  • Swedish: “Väst-Virumaa”
  • Swedish: “Västra Wierland”
  • Swedish: “Västvirland”
  • Tamil: “ளானே -விறு கவுண்டி”
  • Telugu: “లానే-వీరు కౌంటీ”
  • Thai: “เขตลานวิรุน”
  • Turkish: “Lääne-Viru ili”
  • Turkish: “Lääne-Viru”
  • Turkish: “Lääne-Virumaa”
  • Udmurt: “Ляэне-Вирумаа”
  • Ukrainian: “Західне Вірумаа”
  • Ukrainian: “Ляене-Вірумаа”
  • Ukrainian: “Ляяне-Вірумаа”
  • Urdu: “لآنے-ویرو کاؤنٹی”
  • Urdu: “لانی-ویرو کاؤنٹی”
  • Vietnamese: “Lääne-Viru”
  • Võro: “Õdagu-Viro maakund”
  • Welsh: “Sir Lääne-Viru”
  • Wu Chinese: “西维鲁县”
  • “Õdagu-Viro maakund”

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