Saare
Saaremaa Parish
Karja küla

Karja

Karja is a village in , in western . Before the administrative reform in 2017, the village was in . German philologist Kurt Treu was born in Karja.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 229 residents
  • Description: village in Saaremaa Rural Municipality, Saare County, Estonia
  • Also known as: “Kar’ya”, “Karja Asundus”, and “Myza Kar’ya”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Angla windmill hill and Karja Church.

Museum
Photo: Kynnap, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a museum.

Church
Photo: MinuHiiumaa, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.
is a medieval Lutheran church located in the village on island, . It is the rural church with the richest medieval stone sculpture decoration in all the . is situated 2½ km northeast of Karja.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aru and Parasmetsa.

Hamlet
Photo: Appaches, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village in , , in western . Before the administrative reform in 2017, the village was in . is situated 3½ km north of Karja.

Hamlet
is a village in , in western . Before the administrative reform in 2017, the village was in . is situated 6 km northwest of Karja.

Village
Photo: Yksikuitaja, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.
was a municipality in , . The parish did consist of one small borough Leisi and 53 villages. The municipality had a population of 2,137 and covered an area of 347.91 km². is situated 7 km north of Karja.

Karja

Latitude
58.51133° or 58° 30′ 41″ north
Longitude
22.69612° or 22° 41′ 46″ east
Population
229
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
Open location code
9GC4GM6W+GC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1973426196
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
591602
Wiki­data ID
Q2549809
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Volapük—“Karja” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Կառյա”
  • Belarusian: “Кар’я”
  • Cebuano: “Karja”
  • Chinese: “Karja”
  • Dutch: “Karja”
  • Estonian: “Karja küla”
  • Estonian: “Karja”
  • French: “Karja”
  • German: “Karja”
  • German: “Karrishof”
  • Italian: “Karja”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Karja”
  • Polish: “Karja”
  • Russian: “Карья”
  • Spanish: “Karja”
  • Volapük: “Karja”

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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 “Karja”. Photo: Andrusu, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.