Haapsalu
Haapsalu is a major seaside resort town on the west coast of Estonia, approximately 100 km south-west of Tallinn.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hiiumaamudeliklubi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Iifar, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.
- Type: Town with 11,600 residents
- Description: town in Lääne County, Estonia
- Also known as: “Gaapsalu”, “Gapsal’”, “Haapsula”, “Khaapsalu”, “Khaapsalyu”, and “Khapsalu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Haapsalu Episcopal Castle and Haapsalu Old Town Hall.
Haapsalu Episcopal Castle
Photo: Sander Säde, CC BY 3.0.
Haapsalu Castle is a castle with cathedral in Haapsalu, Estonia, founded in the thirteenth century as the seat of the Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek. According to legend, during full moons in August, an image of a maiden, The White Lady, appears on the inner wall of the chapel.
Station building of Haapsalu railway station
Railway station
Photo: Athanasius Soter, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.
Haapsalu
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Haapsalu, Lääne, West Estonia and Islands, Estonia, Baltic states, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
58.9399° or 58° 56′ 24″ northLongitude
23.5415° or 23° 32′ 29″ eastPopulation
11,600Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)United Nations Location Code
EE HAAOpen location code
9GC5WGQR+XHOpenStreetMap ID
node 30127112OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yakut—“Haapsalu” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Haapsalu”
- Arabic: “هابسالو”
- Armenian: “Հաապսալու”
- Azerbaijani: “Haapsalu”
- Azerbaijani: “Hааpsаlu”
- Bashkir: “Хаапсалу”
- Basque: “Haapsalu”
- Belarusian: “Гапсаль”
- Belarusian: “Хаапсалу”
- Bulgarian: “Хаапсалу”
- Catalan: “Haapsalu”
- Cebuano: “Haapsalu”
- Chinese: “哈普沙盧”
- Chinese: “哈普萨卢”
- Chinese: “哈普薩盧”
- Chuvash: “Хаапсалу”
- Croatian: “Haapsalu”
- Czech: “Haapsalu linn”
- Czech: “Haapsalu”
- Czech: “Habsal”
- Czech: “Hapsal”
- Danish: “Haapsalu”
- Danish: “Hapsal”
- Dutch: “Haapsalu”
- Eastern Mari: “Хаапсалу”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هابسالو”
- Erzya: “Хаапсалу ош”
- Esperanto: “Haapsalu”
- Estonian: “Haabsalu”
- Estonian: “Haapsalu linn”
- Estonian: “Haapsalu”
- Finnish: “Haapsalu”
- French: “Haapsalu”
- Galician: “Haapsalu”
- Georgian: “ჰააფსალუ”
- German: “Haapsalu”
- German: “Habsal”
- German: “Hapsal”
- Greek: “Χάαπσαλου”
- Hebrew: “האפסלו”
- Hungarian: “Haapsalu”
- Iban: “Haapsalu”
- Indonesian: “Haapsalu”
- Irish: “Haapsalu”
- Italian: “Haapsalu”
- Japanese: “ハープサル”
- Korean: “합살루”
- Latin: “Hapsalia”
- Latin: “Hapselia”
- Latvian: “Haapsalu”
- Latvian: “Hāpsala”
- Latvian: “Hapsalu”
- Latvian: “Hāpsalu”
- Lithuanian: “Haapsalu”
- Lithuanian: “Hapsalis”
- Lithuanian: “Hapsalu”
- Malay: “Haapsalu”
- Moksha: “Гаапсалу”
- Northern Frisian: “Haapsalu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Haapsalu”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Haapsalu”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hapsal”
- Norwegian: “Haapsalu”
- Ossetian: “Хаапсалу”
- Persian: “هاپسالو”
- Polish: “Haapsalu”
- Portuguese: “Haapsalu”
- Romanian: “Haapsalu”
- Russian: “Гапсаль”
- Russian: “Хаапсалу”
- Scots: “Haapsalu”
- Serbian: “Haapsalu”
- Serbian: “Hapsalu”
- Serbian: “Хапсалу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Haapsalu”
- Slovenian: “Haapsalu”
- Spanish: “Haapsalu”
- Swedish: “Haapsalu”
- Swedish: “Hapsal” (historical)
- Tatar: “Һаапсалу”
- Turkish: “Haapsalu”
- Udmurt: “Хаапсалу”
- Ukrainian: “Гаспаль”
- Ukrainian: “Хаапсалу”
- Upper Sorbian: “Haapsalu”
- Urdu: “ہآپسالو”
- Urdu: “ہاپ سالو”
- Veps: “Haapsalu”
- Vietnamese: “Haapsalu”
- Volapük: “Haapsalu”
- Võro: “Haapsalu”
- Western Mari: “Хаапсалу”
- Wu Chinese: “哈普沙卢”
- Yakut: “Хаапсалу”
- “Haapsalu”
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