Lääne
Lääne County is one of the 15 counties of Estonia. It is located in western Estonia and borders the Baltic Sea to the north, Harju County to the northeast, Rapla County to the east, Pärnu County to the south, and the island counties of Saare and Hiiu to the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: county with 24,900 residents
- Description: county of Estonia
- Also known as: “Lääne County”, “Lääne maakond”, “Lääne Maakond”, “Läänemaa”, and “Laeaenemaa”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Haapsalu Episcopal Castle and Haapsalu Old Town Hall.
Haapsalu Episcopal Castle
Photo: Sander Säde, CC BY 3.0.
Haapsalu Castle is a castle with cathedral in Haapsalu, Estonia, founded in the thirteenth century as the seat of the Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek. According to legend, during full moons in August, an image of a maiden, The White Lady, appears on the inner wall of the chapel.
Station building of Haapsalu railway station
Railway station
Photo: Athanasius Soter, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Haapsalu.
Haapsalu
Photo: Iifar, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.
Haapsalu is a major seaside resort town on the west coast of Estonia, approximately 100 km south-west of Tallinn.
Lääne
- Location: Estonia, Baltic states, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Lääne” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة لانا”
- Armenian: “Լյաենեմաա”
- Azerbaijani: “Lyaenemaa”
- Azerbaijani: “Lyaenеmаа”
- Basque: “Lääneko konderria”
- Belarusian: “Ляэнэ”
- Belarusian: “Ляэнэмаа”
- Belarusian: “Павет Ляэнэ”
- Bengali: “লাআন কাউন্টি”
- Bosnian: “Okrug Läänemaa”
- Bulgarian: “Лаане”
- Bulgarian: “Леене”
- Bulgarian: “Ляяне”
- Catalan: “comtat de Lääne”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Lääne”
- Catalan: “Läänemaa”
- Cebuano: “Läänemaa”
- Chechen: “Ляэнемаа”
- Chinese: “Lääne Koān”
- Chinese: “莱内县”
- Chinese: “萊內縣”
- Cornish: “Konteth Lääne”
- Croatian: “Läänemaa”
- Croatian: “Okrug Lääne”
- Croatian: “Okrug Läänemaa”
- Czech: “Lääne maakond”
- Czech: “Lääne”
- Czech: “Läänemaa”
- Danish: “Läänemaa”
- Dutch: “Läänemaa”
- Erzya: “Ляэнемаа ёнкс”
- Esperanto: “Laanemaa”
- Esperanto: “Läänemaa”
- Estonian: “Haapsalu maakond”
- Estonian: “Lääne maakond”
- Faroese: “Läänemaa”
- Finnish: “Läänemaa”
- French: “Comté de l’Ouest”
- French: “Comté de Lääne”
- French: “Lääne”
- French: “Laanemaa”
- French: “Läänemaa”
- French: “Maakond de Lääne”
- French: “Région de l’Ouest”
- French: “Région de Lääne”
- French: “Terre de l’Ouest”
- Galician: “Condado de Lääne”
- Galician: “Läänemaa”
- Georgian: “ლიაენემაა”
- German: “EE-57”
- German: “Kreis Lääne”
- German: “Läänemaa”
- Greek: “Επαρχία Λέενε”
- Greek: “Επαρχία Λέενεμαα”
- Gujarati: “લાન કાઉન્ટી”
- Hebrew: “לאנה”
- Hindi: “लाने काउंटी”
- Hungarian: “Läänemaa”
- Indonesian: “County Lääne”
- Indonesian: “Daerah Lääne”
- Indonesian: “Laanemaa”
- Indonesian: “Läänemaa”
- Irish: “Läänemaa”
- Italian: “Laanemaa”
- Italian: “Läänemaa”
- Japanese: “ラーネ県”
- Japanese: “レーネ県”
- Kannada: “ಲಾನ್ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
- Korean: “래네 주”
- Korean: “래네주”
- Latvian: “Lēnes apriņķis”
- Lithuanian: “Lenema”
- Lithuanian: “Lenės apskritis”
- Lithuanian: “Lianės apskritis”
- Macedonian: “Лене”
- Macedonian: “Љаене”
- Malay: “County Lääne”
- Malay: “Daerah Lääne”
- Marathi: “लोन काउंटी”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lääne Koān”
- Moksha: “Ляэнэ мааконд”
- Moksha: “Ляэнэмаа”
- Northern Frisian: “Lääne (Lunkreis)”
- Northern Frisian: “Lääne”
- Northern Sami: “Läänemaa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lääne maakond”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lääne”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Läänemaa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Laane fylke”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lääne fylke”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lããne fylke”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Laane maakond”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lääne maakond”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lããne maakond”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Laane makond”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lããne makond”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Läänemaa”
- Norwegian: “Lääne fylke”
- Ossetian: “Ляэнемаа”
- Persian: “استان لنه”
- Persian: “شهرستان لنه”
- Polish: “Läänemaa”
- Polish: “Prowincja Lääne”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Lääne”
- Portuguese: “Läänemaa”
- Portuguese: “Ocidental”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Lääne”
- Romanian: “Judeţul Lääne”
- Romanian: “Județul Lääne”
- Romanian: “Lääne”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Laane”
- Russian: “Ляэнемаа”
- Russian: “Ляэнеский уезд”
- Scots: “Lääne Coonty”
- Serbian: “Ljaene”
- Serbian: “Ланема”
- Serbian: “Љаене”
- Serbian: “Округ Ланема”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lääne”
- Sinhala: “ලානේ ප්රාන්තය”
- South Azerbaijani: “لنه”
- Spanish: “Condado de Laane”
- Spanish: “Condado de Laäne”
- Spanish: “Condado de Lääne”
- Spanish: “Laanemaa”
- Spanish: “Laänemaa”
- Spanish: “Läänemaa”
- Spanish: “Rotalia”
- Swedish: “Lääne län”
- Swedish: “Lääne maakond”
- Swedish: “Läänemaa”
- Swedish: “Rotalia”
- Swedish: “Rotalien”
- Swedish: “Wiek”
- Tamil: “லானே கவுண்டி”
- Telugu: “లానె కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “เมืองลาเน”
- Turkish: “Lääne ili”
- Turkish: “Lääne”
- Turkish: “Läänemaa”
- Udmurt: “Ляэнемаа”
- Ukrainian: “Ляенемаа”
- Ukrainian: “Ляянемаа”
- Urdu: “لآنے کاؤنٹی”
- Urdu: “لانی کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Lääne”
- Võro: “Lääne maakund”
- Welsh: “Sir Lääne”
- Wu Chinese: “莱内县”
- “Lääne maakund”
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