Rakvere
Rakvere is Estonia’s fifth largest city and situated the northern part of the country, 20 km south of the Gulf of Finland and approximately 100 km east of Tallinn and west of Narva.
- Town with 17,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 83 metres (272 feet)
- Description: town in northern Estonia
- Also known as“Rakwere”“Vezenberg”“Wesenberg”“Wesenbergh”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rakvere railway station and Rehbinder’s House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Taaravainu and Tõrma.
Taaravainu
Hamlet
Taaravainu is a village in Rakvere Parish, Lääne-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia.
Tõrma
Hamlet
Tõrma is a village in Rakvere Parish, Lääne-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia. Tõrma is situated 3½ km southwest of Rakvere.
Rakvere
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Latitude
59.3482° or 59° 20′ 54″ north
Longitude
26.3617° or 26° 21′ 42″ east
UN/LOCODE
EE RAK
Open location code
9GF889X6+7M
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Rakvere” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “راكفير”
- Aragonese: “Rakvere”
- Armenian: “Ռակվեռե”
- Azerbaijani: “Rakvere”
- Azerbaijani: “Rаkvеrе”
- Bashkir: “Раквере”
- Basque: “Rakvere”
- Belarusian: “Вэзэнбэрг”
- Belarusian: “Ракверэ”
- Belarusian: “Раквэрэ”
- Bulgarian: “Раквере”
- Catalan: “Rakvere”
- Catalan: “Wesenberg”
- Catalan: “Wesenbergh”
- Cebuano: “Rakvere”
- Chechen: “Раквере”
- Chinese: “拉克韋雷”
- Chinese: “拉克韦雷”
- Chuvash: “Раквере”
- Croatian: “Rakvere”
- Czech: “Rakvere linn”
- Czech: “Rakvere”
- Czech: “Wesenberg”
- Danish: “Rakvere”
- Danish: “Wesenberg”
- Danish: “Wesenbergh”
- Dutch: “Rakvere”
- Eastern Mari: “Раквере”
- Egyptian Arabic: “راكفير”
- Erzya: “Раквере ош”
- Esperanto: “Rakvere”
- Estonian: “Rakvere linn”
- Estonian: “Rakvere_vald”
- Estonian: “Rakvere”
- Estonian: “Tarvanpää”
- Estonian: “Wesenberg”
- Finnish: “Rakvere”
- French: “Rakvere”
- Galician: “Rakvere”
- Georgian: “რაკვერე”
- German: “Rakvere”
- German: “Wesenberg”
- Greek: “Ράκβερε”
- Hebrew: “רקוורה”
- Hindi: “राक्वेरे”
- Hungarian: “Rakvere”
- Indonesian: “Rakvere”
- Irish: “Rakvere”
- Italian: “Rakvere”
- Japanese: “ラクヴェレ”
- Kalaallisut: “Rakvere”
- Korean: “라크베레”
- Latin: “Wesenberga”
- Latvian: “Rakvere”
- Latvian: “Vezenberga”
- Lithuanian: “Rakverė”
- Lithuanian: “Vesenbergas”
- Luxembourgish: “Rakvere”
- Macedonian: “Раквере”
- Malay: “Rakvere”
- Moksha: “Раквэрэ”
- Northern Frisian: “Rakvere (Steed)”
- Northern Frisian: “Rakvere”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rakvere”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rakvere”
- Norwegian: “Rakvere”
- Ossetian: “Раквере”
- Persian: “راکوره”
- Polish: “Rakvere”
- Portuguese: “Rakvere”
- Romanian: “Rakvere”
- Russian: “Раквере”
- Russian: “Ракобор”
- Russian: “Раковор”
- Samogitian: “Rakverė”
- Scots: “Rakvere”
- Serbian: “Rakvere”
- Serbian: “Раквере”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rakvere”
- Silesian: “Rakvere”
- Slovak: “Rakvere”
- Slovenian: “Rakvere”
- Slovenian: “Wesenberg”
- Spanish: “Rakvere”
- Spanish: “Wesenberg”
- Swedish: “Rakvere”
- Swedish: “Wesenberg”
- Swedish: “Wesenbergh”
- Tatar: “Раквере”
- Tumbuka: “Rakvere”
- Turkish: “Rakvere”
- Udmurt: “Раквере”
- Ukrainian: “Раквере”
- Upper Sorbian: “Rakvere”
- Urdu: “راکویرہ”
- Urdu: “راکویرے”
- Uzbek: “Rakvere”
- Veps: “Rakvere”
- Vietnamese: “Rakvere”
- Volapük: “Rakvere”
- Võro: “Rakvere”
- Welsh: “Rakvere”
- Western Mari: “Раквере”
- Wu Chinese: “拉克韦雷”
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