Alu
Alu is a small borough in Rapla Parish, Rapla County, Estonia. It is located about 3 km northwest of the town of Rapla. Alu has a population of c. 950. Alu was first mentioned in 1241 as Alafæ village in the Danish Census Book.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 815 residents
- Description: township in Rapla Rural Municipality, Rapla County, Estonia
- Also known as: “Alu, Estonia” and “Myza Alu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Alu manor house and Rapla Church.
Administrative building of Rapla KEK
Office building
Photo: Stemugram, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Administrative building of Rapla KEK is an office building, which is situated 3½ km southeast of Alu.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rapla and Kuusiku.
Rapla
Town
Photo: Kalev33, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rapla (German: Rappel is a town in north-central Estonia, the capital of Rapla County and the centre of Rapla Parish. Rapla is situated 2½ km southeast of Alu.
Kuusiku
Village
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Kuusiku is a small borough in Rapla Parish, Rapla County, Estonia. It has a population of 250. Kuusiku Manor and Rapla Airfield are located in Kuusiku. Kuusiku is situated 6 km southwest of Alu.
Raikküla
Hamlet
Raikküla is a village in Rapla Parish, Rapla County in northwestern Estonia. Between 1991 and 2017 the village was located in Raikküla Parish. Geologist and paleontologist Alexander Keyserling lived in Raikküla Manor since 1847. Raikküla is situated 10 km south of Alu.
Alu
- Categories: township and locality
- Location: Alu alevik, Rapla Parish, Rapla County, Estonia, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
59.0233° or 59° 1′ 24″ northLongitude
24.76839° or 24° 46′ 6″ eastPopulation
815Elevation
62 metres (203 feet)Open location code
9GF62QF9+89OpenStreetMap ID
node 110254328OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
592512Wikidata ID
Q2344919
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Volapük—“Alu” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ալու”
- Belarusian: “Алу (Рапламаа)”
- Belarusian: “Алу”
- Cebuano: “Alu”
- Dutch: “Alu”
- Estonian: “Alu alevik”
- Estonian: “Alu”
- French: “Alu”
- German: “Alu”
- Italian: “Alu”
- Persian: “الو، استونیا”
- Russian: “Алу”
- Scots: “Alu, Estonie”
- Spanish: “Alu”
- Swedish: “Alu, Estland”
- Ukrainian: “Миза Алу”
- Uzbek: “Alu, Estonia”
- Uzbek: “Alu”
- Volapük: “Alu”
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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 “Alu”. Photo: Stemugram, CC BY-SA 3.0.