Kesklinn
Kesklinn is one of the 8 administrative districts of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It is situated on the Tallinn Bay and bordered to the northwest by the district of Põhja-Tallinn, to the west by Kristiine, to the southwest by Nõmme, to the east by Lasnamäe and Pirita, and to the south by Rae Parish, beyond Lake Ülemiste.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Iifar, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.
Photo: Pjotr Mahhonin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Suburb with 69,500 residents
- Description: district of Tallinn
- Also known as: “City center” and “Kesklinn, Tallinn”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Foorum and Museum of Estonian Architecture.
Foorum
Shopping center
Museum of Estonian Architecture
Museum
St. Nicholas Church
Museum
Photo: Iifar, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.
St. Nicholas Church is a medieval church building in Tallinn, Estonia. It was dedicated to Saint Nicholas, the patron of the fishermen and sailors. Originally built as a Catholic church in the 13th century, it turned Lutheran during the Protestant Reformation in 1520s.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Maakri and Kalamaja.
Maakri
Quarter
Maakri is a subdistrict in the district of Kesklinn, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It has a population of 1,099. In the last decade Maakri has developed into the main business centre of Tallinn.
Kalamaja
Quarter
Photo: Aleksandr Abrosimov, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kalamaja is a subdistrict of the district of Põhja-Tallinn in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It is located just northwest of the historical town centre, on the coast of the Tallinn Bay.
Kesklinn
- Categories: city district and locality
- Location: Kesklinna linnaosa, Tallinn, Harju, North Estonia, Estonia, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
59.43723° or 59° 26′ 14″ northLongitude
24.75727° or 24° 45′ 26″ eastPopulation
69,500Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)Open location code
9GF6CQP4+VWOpenStreetMap ID
node 5951137393OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
795155Wikidata ID
Q1230929
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Kesklinn” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կեսկլին”
- Catalan: “Kesklinn”
- Chinese: “中城”
- Czech: “Kesklinn”
- Dutch: “Kesklinn”
- Estonian: “Kesklinn”
- Estonian: “Kesklinna linnaosa”
- Finnish: “Kesklinn”
- Finnish: “Keskusta”
- Finnish: “Tallinnan keskusta”
- French: “Arrondissement de Kesklinn”
- French: “Kesklinn”
- German: “Kesklinn”
- Hungarian: “Kesklinn”
- Italian: “Kesklinn”
- Japanese: “ケスクリン”
- Latin: “Media Urbs”
- Latvian: “Centrs (Tallina)”
- Latvian: “Centrs”
- Malay: “Kesklinn, Tallinn”
- Malay: “pusat bandar Tallinn”
- Persian: “کسکلین، تالین”
- Polish: “Kesklinn”
- Russian: “Кесклинн”
- Spanish: “Kesklinn”
- Swedish: “Kesklinn”
- Turkish: “Kesklinn”
- Udmurt: “Кесклинн”
- Ukrainian: “Кесклінн”
- Vietnamese: “Kesklinn”
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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 “Kesklinn”. Photo: Pjotr Mahhonin, CC BY-SA 4.0.