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Ruhnu

Ruhnu is a small island in , isolated from the rest of the country in the Gulf of Riga. The island is called Runö in Swedish.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 64 residents
  • Description: island in Estonia
  • Also known as: “Roņu sala”, “Ruhnu Island”, “Rukhnu”, “Runo”, and “Runö”
Photo: Hiiumaamudeliklubi, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ruhnu Lighthouse and Saint Magdalene Church, Ruhnu.

Lighthouse
Photo: Tuderna, CC BY 3.0.
is a lighthouse located on the island of Ruhnu, in .

Church
Photo: Kynnap, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, also known as Ruhnu Wooden Church is a wooden church in Ruhnu Island, . It is the oldest preserved wooden shrine in Estonia.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Ruhnu

Latitude
57.8047° or 57° 48′ 17″ north
Longitude
23.2416° or 23° 14′ 30″ east
Population
64
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
Open location code
9G95R63R+VJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4365915329
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
588936
Wiki­data ID
Q1240598
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Ruhnu” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ruhnu”
  • Arabic: “روهنو”
  • Armenian: “Ռուհնու”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ruhnu adası”
  • Basque: “Ruhnu”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Рухну”
  • Belarusian: “Рухну”
  • Cebuano: “Ruhnu Saar”
  • Chinese: “Ruhnu”
  • Chinese: “鲁赫努岛”
  • Croatian: “Ruhnu”
  • Czech: “Ruhnu”
  • Danish: “Runø”
  • Dutch: “Ruhnu”
  • Dutch: “Runö”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “روهنو”
  • Esperanto: “Ruhnu”
  • Estonian: “Ruhnu”
  • Finnish: “Ruhnu”
  • French: “Ruhnu”
  • Georgian: “რუჰნუ”
  • German: “Ruhnu”
  • German: “Runö”
  • Greek: “Ρουχνού”
  • Hausa: “Ruhnu”
  • Hebrew: “רוהנו”
  • Hebrew: “רוכנו”
  • Hungarian: “Ruhnu”
  • Hungarian: “Runö”
  • Iban: “Ruhnu”
  • Indonesian: “Ruhnu”
  • Italian: “Ruhnu”
  • Japanese: “ルフヌ島”
  • Kazakh: “Рухну (арал)”
  • Kazakh: “Рухну”
  • Korean: “루흐누”
  • Korean: “루흐누섬”
  • Latvian: “Roņu sala”
  • Lithuanian: “Ruhnu”
  • Macedonian: “Рухну (остров)”
  • Macedonian: “Рухну”
  • Malayalam: “രുഹ്നു”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ruhnu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ruhnu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ruhnu”
  • Norwegian: “Ruhnu”
  • Persian: “روهنو”
  • Polish: “Ruhnu”
  • Portuguese: “Ruhnu”
  • Romanian: “Ruhnu”
  • Russian: “Рухну”
  • Serbian: “Рухну”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ruhnu”
  • Spanish: “Ruhnu”
  • Swedish: “Runö”
  • Turkish: “Ruhnu”
  • Ukrainian: “Рухну”
  • Uzbek: “Ruhnu”
  • Vietnamese: “Ruhnu”
  • Vietnamese: “Ruņö”
  • Võro: “Ruhnu”
  • Western Frisian: “Ruhnu”
  • “Ruhnu”

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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 “Ruhnu”. Photo: Kasutajatunnus, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.