Hiiumaa
Hiiumaa is the second largest island in Estonia and is part of the West Estonian archipelago, in the Baltic Sea. It has an area of 989 km2 and is 22 km from the Estonian mainland. Its largest town is Kärdla. It is located within Hiiu County.
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Hiiumaa
- Type: Island
- Description: second largest island in Estonia
- Also known as: “Chioema”, “Chiuma”, “Dagdas sala”, “Dagė Sala”, “Dago”, “Dago Sala”, “Dagoe”, “Đảo Hiiumaa”, “Distrikto Hiiu”, “Dogen”, “Hiiu”, “Hījumā sala”, “Hīumā”, “Insel Dagö”, “Isla de Dago”, “Khiuma”, “Ostrov Dagë”, “Ostrov Dago”, “Ostrov Khiiumaa”, “Ostrov Khiuma”, “Ostrov Khiumaa”, “Ostrov Khiyumaa”, “Даге”, “Дагё”, “Даген”, “Даго”, “Хииумаа”, “Хийума”, “Хиюма”, and “히우마”
- Historically known as: “Dago Island”
- Category: landform
- Location: Leigri küla, Hiiumaa Parish, Hiiu County, West Estonia and Islands, Estonia, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
58.8961° or 58° 53′ 46″ north
Longitude
22.6486° or 22° 38′ 55″ east
Population
9,000
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
Open location code
9GC4VJWX+CC
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Hiiumaa” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hiiumaa”
- Albanian: “Hiiumaa”
- Arabic: “هييوما”
- Armenian: “Հիյումաա”
- Azerbaijani: “Hiyumaa”
- Basque: “Hiiumaa”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Хіюмаа”
- Belarusian: “Хіюмаа”
- Bengali: “হিউমা”
- Breton: “Hiiumaa”
- Bulgarian: “Хиюмаа”
- Catalan: “Hiiumaa”
- Cebuano: “Hiiumaa”
- Chinese: “希乌马岛”
- Chinese: “希烏馬島”
- Croatian: “Hiiumaa”
- Czech: “Hiiumaa”
- Danish: “Dagø”
- Dutch: “Hiiumaa”
- Erzya: “Хийумаа усия”
- Esperanto: “Hiiumaa”
- Estonian: “Hiiu maakond”
- Estonian: “Hiiumaa”
- Finnish: “Hiidenmaa”
- French: “Hiiumaa”
- French: “Île de Hiiumaa”
- Galician: “Hiiumaa”
- Georgian: “ჰიიუმაა”
- German: “Hiiumaa”
- Gothic: “𐌷𐌹𐌿𐌼𐌰𐌰”
- Greek: “Χιίουμαα”
- Hebrew: “היומאה”
- Hungarian: “Hiiumaa”
- Icelandic: “Hiiumaa”
- Indonesian: “Hiiumaa”
- Italian: “Hiiumaa”
- Japanese: “ヒーウマー島”
- Kalaallisut: “Hiiumaa”
- Kazakh: “Хийумаа”
- Kirghiz: “Хийумаа”
- Korean: “히우마 섬”
- Korean: “히우마섬”
- Latin: “Daghoa”
- Latvian: “Hījumā”
- Lithuanian: “Hyjuma”
- Lombard: “Hiiumaa”
- Lower Sorbian: “Hiiumaa”
- Luxembourgish: “Hiiumaa”
- Macedonian: “Хиума (остров)”
- Macedonian: “Хиума”
- Malagasy: “Hiiumaa”
- Malayalam: “ഹിയൂമ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hiiu Koān”
- Northern Frisian: “Hiiumaa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hiiumaa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hiiumaa”
- Norwegian: “Dagö”
- Norwegian: “Hiiumaa”
- Ossetian: “Хийумаа”
- Persian: “هیوما”
- Polish: “Hiuma”
- Portuguese: “Hiiumaa”
- Romanian: “Hiiumaa”
- Russian: “Хийумаа”
- Scots: “Hiiumaa”
- Serbian: “Хијума”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hiiumaa”
- Slovak: “Hiiumaa”
- Slovenian: “Hiiumaa”
- Spanish: “Hiiumaa”
- Swedish: “Dagö”
- Turkish: “Hiiumaa”
- Ukrainian: “Гіюмаа”
- Ukrainian: “Хіюмаа”
- Upper Sorbian: “Hiiumaa”
- Vietnamese: “Hiiumaa”
- Võro: “Hiiomaa”
- Welsh: “Hiiumaa”
- Wu Chinese: “希乌马岛”
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