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Saaremaa Parish
Kuressaare linn

Kuressaare

Kuressaare is a town on the island of in . It is the administrative centre of Saaremaa Municipality and the seat of . Kuressaare is the westernmost town in Estonia.
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  • Type: Town with 15,200 residents
  • Description: town on Saaremaa island in Estonia
  • Also known as: “Arensburga”, “Kuresaar”, and “Kuresaari”
  • Historically known as: “Kingisepp”, “Kingissepa”, and “Kingissepp”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kuressaare Town Hall and Kuressaare Airport.

Town hall
Photo: Avjoska, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Aerodrome
Photo: WikedKentaur, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an in . The airport is situated about 3 km southeast of Kuressaare town centre in Saaremaa Municipality.

Church
Photo: Metsavend, CC BY 2.5.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sikassaare.

Hamlet
is a village in , in western . Before the administrative reform in 2017, the village was in Lääne-Saare Parish.

Kuressaare

Latitude
58.2528° or 58° 15′ 10″ north
Longitude
22.4849° or 22° 29′ 6″ east
Population
15,200
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
IATA airport code
URE
United Nations Location Code
EE URE
Open location code
9GC47F3M+4X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 753254956
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
590939
Wiki­data ID
Q188179
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Kuressaare” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kuressaare”
  • Albanian: “Kuresaare”
  • Arabic: “كوريساري”
  • Aragonese: “Kuressaare”
  • Armenian: “Կուռեսաառե”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kuressaare”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kurеssааrе”
  • Bashkir: “Курессааре”
  • Basque: “Kuressaare”
  • Belarusian: “Кінгісеп”
  • Belarusian: “Курэсаарэ”
  • Belarusian: “Курэссаарэ”
  • Bulgarian: “Аренсбург”
  • Bulgarian: “Кингисепа”
  • Bulgarian: “Куресааре”
  • Catalan: “Kuressaare”
  • Cebuano: “Kuressaare”
  • Chinese: “库雷萨雷”
  • Chinese: “庫雷薩雷”
  • Chuvash: “Курессааре”
  • Croatian: “Kuressaare”
  • Czech: “Arensburg”
  • Czech: “Kuressaare linn”
  • Czech: “Kuressaare”
  • Danish: “Arensborg”
  • Danish: “Arensburg”
  • Danish: “Kingisepp”
  • Danish: “Kingissepa”
  • Danish: “Kuressaare”
  • Dutch: “Arensburg”
  • Dutch: “Kingissepa”
  • Dutch: “Kuressaare”
  • Eastern Mari: “Курессааре”
  • Erzya: “Курессааре ош”
  • Esperanto: “Kuressaare”
  • Estonian: “Kingissepa”
  • Estonian: “Kuressaare linn”
  • Estonian: “Kuressaare”
  • Finnish: “Kuressaare”
  • Finnish: “Kuressaari”
  • French: “Arensbourg”
  • French: “Arensburg”
  • French: “Kuressaare”
  • Galician: “Kuressaare”
  • Georgian: “კურესაარე”
  • German: “Arensburg”
  • German: “Kingissepa”
  • German: “Kuressaare”
  • Greek: “Κουρεσαάρε”
  • Greek: “Κουρεσάαρε”
  • Hebrew: “קורסארה”
  • Hungarian: “Kuressaare”
  • Indonesian: “Kuressaare”
  • Irish: “Kuressaare”
  • Italian: “Arensburg”
  • Italian: “Kingiseppa”
  • Italian: “Kingisseppa”
  • Italian: “Kuressaare”
  • Japanese: “クレサーレ”
  • Japanese: “クレッサーレ”
  • Korean: “쿠레사레”
  • Latvian: “Ārensburga”
  • Latvian: “Kuresāre”
  • Lithuanian: “Arensburgas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kuresarė”
  • Lombard: “Kuressaare”
  • Macedonian: “Куресаре”
  • Moksha: “Курэссаарэ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kuressaare”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arensborg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arensburg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kuressaare”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kuressaare”
  • Norwegian: “Kuressaare”
  • Ossetian: “Курессааре”
  • Persian: “کورسار”
  • Persian: “کورساره”
  • Polish: “Arensburg”
  • Polish: “Kuressaare”
  • Portuguese: “Kuressaare”
  • Romanian: “Kuressaare”
  • Russian: “Кингисепп”
  • Russian: “Курессааре”
  • Scots: “Kuressaare”
  • Serbian: “Kuresare”
  • Serbian: “Kuressaare”
  • Serbian: “Куресаре”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kuressaare”
  • Silesian: “Kuressaare”
  • Slovak: “Kuressaare”
  • Slovenian: “Kuressaare, Estonija”
  • Spanish: “Arensburg”
  • Spanish: “Kingissepa”
  • Spanish: “Kuressaare”
  • Swedish: “Arensborg”
  • Swedish: “Arensburg”
  • Swedish: “Kingissepa”
  • Swedish: “Kuressaare”
  • Tatar: “Курессааре”
  • Thai: “กูเร็สซาเร”
  • Turkish: “Kuressaare”
  • Udmurt: “Курессааре”
  • Ukrainian: “Курессааре”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kuressaare”
  • Urdu: “کورہ سارہ”
  • Uzbek: “Kuressaare”
  • Veps: “Kuressaare”
  • Vietnamese: “Kuressaare”
  • Volapük: “Kuressaare”
  • Võro: “Kuressaare”
  • Võro: “Kurõssaarõ”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kuressaare”
  • Western Mari: “Курессааре”
  • Wu Chinese: “库雷萨雷”
  • “Kurõssaarõ”

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