Harju
Harju County, is one of the fifteen counties of Estonia. It is situated in northern Estonia, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, and borders Lääne-Viru County to the east, Järva County to the southeast, Rapla County to the south, and Lääne County to the southwest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: county of Estonia with 615,000 residents
- Description: county of Estonia
- Also known as: “Harju County”, “Harju maakond”, “Harju Maakond”, “Harju Rajoon”, “Harjumaa”, and “Khar’yuskiy Rayon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jüri Church and Raudalu glacial boulders.
Raudalu glacial boulders
Stone
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Raudalu glacial boulders is a stone, which is situated 6 km northwest of Harju.
Jüri cemetery
Cemetery
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Jüri cemetery is situated 6 km northeast of Harju.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jüri and Nõmme.
Jüri
Village
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Jüri is a small borough in Harju County, northern Estonia. It is located 12 km southeast of the capital Tallinn, by the Tallinn–Tartu road, directly after the intersection with Tallinn Ring Road.
Nõmme
Suburb
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Nõmme is one of the eight administrative districts of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It has a population of 37,147 and covers an area of 28 km2, population density is 1,326.7/km2. Nõmme is situated 10 km northwest of Harju.
Assaku
Village
Assaku is a small borough in Rae Parish, Harju County, northern Estonia. As of the 2011 census, the settlement's population was 460.
Harju
- Location: Estonia, Baltic states, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Harju” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مديريه هاريو”
- 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’ю”
- Belarusian: “Хар’юмаа”
- Belarusian: “Хар’юскі павет”
- Bengali: “হার্জু কাউন্টি”
- Bosnian: “Okrug Harjumaa”
- Bulgarian: “Харю”
- Catalan: “Comtat d’Harju”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Harju”
- Catalan: “Harjumaa”
- Cebuano: “Harjumaa”
- Chechen: “Харьюмаа”
- Chinese: “Harju Koān”
- Chinese: “哈尔尤县”
- Chinese: “哈爾尤縣”
- Chinese: “哈留县”
- Chinese: “哈留縣”
- Cornish: “Konteth Harju”
- Croatian: “Harju”
- Croatian: “Okrug Harju”
- Croatian: “Okrug Harjumaa”
- Czech: “Harju maakond”
- Czech: “Harju”
- Czech: “Harjumaa”
- Danish: “Harju”
- Danish: “Harjumaa”
- Dutch: “Harjumaa”
- Erzya: “Харьюмаа ёнкс”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Harju”
- Esperanto: “Harjumaa”
- Estonian: “Harju maakond”
- Faroese: “Harjumaa”
- Finnish: “Harju”
- Finnish: “Harjumaa”
- French: “Comté de Harju”
- French: “Harju”
- French: “Harjumaa”
- French: “Maakond de Harju”
- French: “Région de Harju”
- French: “Terre de Harju”
- Galician: “Condado de Harju”
- Galician: “Harjumaa”
- Georgian: “ჰარიუმაა”
- German: “EE-37”
- German: “Harjumaa”
- German: “Harrien”
- German: “Kreis Harju”
- Greek: “Επαρχία Χάργιου”
- Greek: “Επαρχία Χάργιουμαα”
- Greek: “Επαρχία Χάριου”
- Gujarati: “હાર્જુ કાઉન્ટી”
- Hebrew: “האריו”
- Hebrew: “מחוז הריו”
- Hindi: “हरजू काउंटी”
- Hungarian: “Harjumaa”
- Indonesian: “County Harju”
- Indonesian: “Daerah Harju”
- Indonesian: “Harjumaa”
- Irish: “Harjumaa”
- Italian: “Harjumaa”
- Japanese: “ハリウ県”
- Japanese: “ハリュ県”
- Kannada: “ಹರ್ಜು ಕೌಂಟಿ”
- Korean: “하리우주”
- Latin: “Hargia”
- Latin: “Harria”
- Latvian: “Harju apriņķis”
- Latvian: “Harju maakond”
- Latvian: “Harjuieši”
- Latvian: “Harjumaa”
- Lithuanian: “Harju apskritis”
- Lithuanian: “Harju”
- Lithuanian: “Harjuma”
- 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 maakond”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Harju”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Harjumaa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Harju fylke”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Harju maakond”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Harju makond”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Harju”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Harjumaa”
- Norwegian: “Harju fylke”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Comtat de Harju”
- Ossetian: “Харьюмаа”
- Persian: “شهرستان هاریو”
- Polish: “Harju”
- Polish: “Harjumaa”
- Polish: “Prowincja Harju”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Harju”
- Portuguese: “Harjumaa”
- Portuguese: “Harria”
- Portuguese: “Harrien”
- Portuguese: “Região de Harju”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Harju”
- Romanian: “Județul Harju”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Harju”
- Russian: “Уезд Харьюмаа”
- Russian: “Харьюма”
- Russian: “Харьюмаа”
- Scots: “Harju Coonty”
- Serbian: “Harju maakond”
- Serbian: “Harju”
- Serbian: “Округ Харју”
- Serbian: “Харју”
- Serbian: “Харјума”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Harju”
- Sinhala: “හර්ජු ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Harju maakond”
- Slovak: “Harju”
- Slovak: “Harjumaa”
- Slovenian: “EE-37”
- Slovenian: “Harju maakond”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Harju”
- Spanish: “Condado de Harju”
- Spanish: “Harju”
- Spanish: “Harjumaa”
- Spanish: “Harria”
- Swedish: “Harju län”
- Swedish: “Harju maakond”
- Swedish: “Harjumaa”
- Swedish: “Harrien”
- Tamil: “அர்ஜு கவுண்டி”
- Telugu: “హార్జు కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “เทศมณฑลฮาร์ยู”
- Thai: “ฮาร์ยู”
- Turkish: “Harju Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Harju ili”
- Turkish: “Harju”
- Turkish: “Harjumaa”
- Udmurt: “Харьюмаа”
- Ukrainian: “Гар’юмаа”
- Ukrainian: “Хар’юмаа”
- Ukrainian: “Харьюмаа”
- Urdu: “ہاریو کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Harju”
- Vietnamese: “Hạt Harju”
- Volapük: “Harju”
- Võro: “Harjo maakund”
- Welsh: “Sir Harju”
- Wu Chinese: “哈尔尤县”
- “Harjo maakund”
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