Otepää
Otepää is a small town with 2,000 inhabitants set in the hills of south Estonia, approximately 50 km south from Tartu.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 4,120 residents
- Description: town in Estonia
- Also known as: “Otepaeae”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Otepää Bishop’s Castle and Alevijärv.
Otepää Bishop’s Castle
Castle
Otepää Castle was a stronghold of the Ugandi Estonians in Otepää, later controlled by the Bishop of Tartu and his vassals. Otepää Castle was one of the most prominent centers of ancient Estonia and a crucial hub in Southern Estonia, being one of Estonia's strongest ancient fortresses, located atop the highest hillfort in the region.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Otepää.
Otepää
Hamlet
Otepää is a village in Otepää Parish, Valga County in southeastern Estonia. It has a population of 313.
Otepää
- Categories: city, alev, and locality
- Location: Otepää Parish, Valgamaa, South Estonia, Estonia, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
58.0585° or 58° 3′ 31″ northLongitude
26.4961° or 26° 29′ 46″ eastPopulation
4,120Elevation
150 metres (492 feet)United Nations Location Code
EE OTPOpen location code
9GC83F5W+9COpenStreetMap ID
node 34823927OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Võro—“Otepää” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Օտեպյաե”
- Azerbaijani: “Otepya”
- Azerbaijani: “Оtеpya”
- Belarusian: “Отэпя”
- Belarusian: “Отэпяя”
- Catalan: “Otepää”
- Cebuano: “Otepää”
- Chinese: “奧泰佩”
- Croatian: “Otepää”
- Czech: “Otepää”
- Danish: “Odenpäh”
- Danish: “Otepää”
- Dutch: “Otepää”
- Eastern Mari: “Отепя”
- Esperanto: “Otepää”
- Estonian: “Otepää Alev”
- Estonian: “Otepää linn”
- Estonian: “Otepää”
- Finnish: “Otepää”
- French: “Otepää”
- Georgian: “ოტეპია”
- German: “Odenpäh”
- German: “Otepää”
- German: “Nustago” (historical)
- German: “Odenpä” (historical)
- Hebrew: “אוטפה”
- Italian: “Otepää”
- Japanese: “オテパー”
- Japanese: “オテピャー”
- Korean: “오테패”
- Latin: “Odenpe” (historical)
- Latin: “Otepea” (historical)
- Latvian: “Otepē”
- Lithuanian: “Otepė”
- Moksha: “Отэпяя”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Otepää”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Otepää”
- Norwegian: “Otepää”
- Persian: “اوتپا”
- Polish: “Otepää”
- Portuguese: “Otepää”
- Romanian: “Otepää”
- Russian: “Отепя”
- Russian: “Отепяэ”
- Serbian: “Отепа”
- Serbian: “Отепја”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Otepää”
- Slovak: “Otepää”
- Slovenian: “Otepää”
- Spanish: “Otepää”
- Swedish: “Otepää”
- Tatar: “Отепәә”
- Turkish: “Otepää”
- Ukrainian: “Отепя”
- Ukrainian: “Отепяе”
- Upper Sorbian: “Otepää”
- Veps: “Otepä”
- Vietnamese: “Otepää”
- Volapük: “Otepää”
- Võro: “Otõmpää”
- “Otepää”
- “Otõmpää”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Otepää”. Photo: Valju, CC BY 3.0.