Estonia
North Estonia
Lääne-Viru County

Rakvere

Rakvere is ’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 and west of .
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  • Type: Town with 17,000 residents
  • Description: town in northern Estonia
  • Also known as: “Rakwere”, “Vezenberg”, “Wesenberg”, and “Wesenbergh”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rakvere railway station and Rehbinder’s House.

Railway station
Photo: Iifar, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.

Museum
Photo: Tauno Rahnu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a museum.

Church
Photo: yeowatzup, CC BY 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Taaravainu and Tõrma.

Hamlet
is a village in , , in northeastern .

Hamlet
is a village in , , in northeastern . is situated 3½ km southwest of Rakvere.

Village
is a small borough in , , in northeastern . As of the 2011 census, the settlement's population was 415. is situated 4½ km southwest of Rakvere.

Rakvere

Latitude
59.3482° or 59° 20′ 54″ north
Longitude
26.3617° or 26° 21′ 42″ east
Population
17,000
Elevation
83 metres (272 feet)
United Nations Location Code
EE RAK
Open location code
9GF889X6+7M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 276210109
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
589165
Wiki­data ID
Q191889
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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”
  • 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”
  • Macedonian: “Раквере”
  • 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”
  • Slovenian: “Rakvere”
  • Slovenian: “Wesenberg”
  • Spanish: “Rakvere”
  • Spanish: “Wesenberg”
  • Swedish: “Rakvere”
  • Swedish: “Wesenberg”
  • Swedish: “Wesenbergh”
  • Tatar: “Раквере”
  • 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”
  • “Rakvere”
  • “Rakverė”

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