Harju

Harju County is one of the fifteen counties of Estonia. It is located in northern , on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, and it borders to the east, to the southeast, to the south, and to the southwest.
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  • Type: county with 615,000 residents
  • Description: county of Estonia
  • Also known as: “Comtat d’Harju”, “Distrikto Harju”, “EE-37”, “Hargia”, “Harju Bölgesi”, “Harju County”, “Harju Maakond”, “Harju makond”, “Harju Rajoon”, “Harjuieši”, “Harjuma”, “Harjumaa”, “Harrien”, “Județul Harju”, “Khar’yuskiy Rayon”, “Maakond de Harju”, “Prowincja Harju”, “Região de Harju”, “Région de Harju”, “Terre de Harju”, “Επαρχία Χάργιουμαα”, “Επαρχία Χάριου”, “Округ Харју”, “Уезд Харьюмаа”, “Хар’ю”, “Харьюма”, “מחוז הריו”, “مديريه هاريو”, “ハリウ県”, “哈留县”, and “哈留縣”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Jüri Church and Raudalu glacial boulders.

Church
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is situated 6 km northeast of Harju.

Stone
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is a stone, which is situated 6 km northwest of Harju.

Cemetery
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is situated 6 km northeast of Harju.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jüri and Peetri.

Village
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is a small borough in Harju County, northern . It is located 12 km southeast of the capital , by the Tallinn–Tartu road, directly after the intersection with Tallinn Ring Road.

Village
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is a small borough in , Harju County, in northern . It is bordered by the city of . According to official population registration had 6,502 inhabitants on 1 January 2025. is situated 7 km north of Harju.

Suburb
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is one of the eight administrative districts of , the capital of . It has a population of 37,147 and covers an area of 28 km2, population density is 1,326.7/km2. is situated 10 km northwest of Harju.

Harju

Latitude
59.3333° or 59° 20′ north
Longitude
24.8333° or 24° 50′ east
Population
615,000
Elevation
51 metres (167 feet)
Open location code
9GF68RMM+88
Geo­Names ID
592170
Wiki­data ID
Q180200
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Harju” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሃርዩማ”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة هاريو”
  • Aragonese: “Condato de Harju”
  • Aragonese: “Condau de Harju”
  • Armenian: “Հարյումաա”
  • Asturian: “Condáu d’Harju”
  • Asturian: “Condáu de Harju”
  • Azerbaijani: “Haryumaa”
  • Basque: “Harju konderria”
  • Basque: “Harjuko konderria”
  • Belarusian: “Хар’юмаа”
  • Belarusian: “Хар’юскі павет”
  • Bengali: “হার্জু কাউন্টি”
  • Bosnian: “Okrug Harjumaa”
  • Bulgarian: “Харю”
  • Catalan: “Comtat de Harju”
  • Cebuano: “Harjumaa”
  • Chechen: “Харьюмаа”
  • Chinese: “哈尔尤县”
  • Chinese: “哈爾尤縣”
  • Cornish: “Konteth Harju”
  • Croatian: “Okrug Harju”
  • Croatian: “Okrug Harjumaa”
  • Czech: “Harjumaa”
  • Danish: “Harjumaa”
  • Dutch: “Harjumaa”
  • Erzya: “Харьюмаа ёнкс”
  • Esperanto: “Harjumaa”
  • Estonian: “Harju maakond”
  • Faroese: “Harjumaa”
  • Finnish: “Harjumaa”
  • French: “Comté de Harju”
  • French: “Harju”
  • Galician: “Condado de Harju”
  • Georgian: “ჰარიუმაა”
  • German: “Kreis Harju”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία Χάργιου”
  • Gujarati: “હાર્જુ કાઉન્ટી”
  • Hausa: “Harjumaa”
  • Hebrew: “האריו”
  • Hindi: “हरजू काउंटी”
  • Hindi: “हार्यू प्रांत”
  • Hungarian: “Harjumaa”
  • Iban: “Kaunti Harju”
  • Indonesian: “County Harju”
  • Irish: “Harjumaa”
  • Italian: “Harjumaa”
  • Japanese: “ハリュ県”
  • Javanese: “Harjumaa”
  • Kannada: “ಹರ್ಜು ಕೌಂಟಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Харьюмаа”
  • Kirghiz: “Харьюмаа”
  • Korean: “하리우주”
  • Latin: “Harria”
  • Latvian: “Harju apriņķis”
  • Lithuanian: “Harju apskritis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Arrondissement Harju”
  • Luxembourgish: “Harju”
  • Macedonian: “Харју”
  • Malay: “County Harju”
  • Malay: “Daerah Harju”
  • Maltese: “Kontea ta‘ Harju”
  • Marathi: “हरजू काउंटी”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Harju Koān”
  • Northern Frisian: “Harju (Lunkreis)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Harju”
  • Northern Sami: “Harjumaa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Harju”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Harju maakond”
  • Norwegian: “Harju fylke”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Comtat de Harju”
  • Oromo: “Harjumaa”
  • Ossetian: “Харьюмаа”
  • Panjabi: “ਹਾਰਜੂਮਾ”
  • Persian: “شهرستان هاریو”
  • Polish: “Harjumaa”
  • Portuguese: “Harjumaa”
  • Pushto: “هارجومaa”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Harju”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Harju”
  • Russian: “Харьюмаа”
  • Scots: “Harju Coonty”
  • Serbian: “Harju”
  • Serbian: “Харју”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Harju”
  • Sinhala: “හර්ජු ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Harju maakond”
  • Slovenian: “Harju maakond”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Harju”
  • Somali: “Harjumaa”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Harju”
  • Swahili: “Harjumaa”
  • Swedish: “Harju län”
  • Swedish: “Harjumaa”
  • Tajik: “Харьюмаа”
  • Tamil: “அர்ஜு கவுண்டி”
  • Tatar: “Харьюмаа”
  • Telugu: “హార్జు కౌంటీ”
  • Thai: “เทศมณฑลฮาร์ยู”
  • Thai: “ฮาร์ยู”
  • Turkish: “Harju ili”
  • Turkish: “Harju”
  • Udmurt: “Харьюмаа”
  • Ukrainian: “Гар’юмаа”
  • Urdu: “ہاریو کاؤنٹی”
  • Uzbek: “Harjumaa”
  • Vietnamese: “Harju”
  • Vietnamese: “Hạt Harju”
  • Volapük: “Harju”
  • Võro: “Harjo maakund”
  • Welsh: “Sir Harju”
  • Wu Chinese: “哈尔尤县”

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