Saaremaa
Saaremaa is the largest Estonian island. It is on the west coast of Estonia. The capital in Saaremaa is Kuressaare, which is covered in a separate article.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Kuressaare
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Kuressaare is a town on the island of Saaremaa in Estonia. It is the administrative centre of Saaremaa Municipality and the seat of Saare County. Kuressaare is the westernmost town in Estonia.
Saaremaa
- Type: Island
- Description: largest island in Estonia
- Also known as: “Ezel’”, “Insel Ösel”, “Oesel”, “Oesel Island”, “Osel”, “Osel Island”, “Ostrov Ezel’”, “Ostrov Saaremaa”, “Ostrov Sarema”, “Saare”, “Saaremaa Island (Estonia)”, “Sāmu Sala”, and “Somu Sala”
- Category: landform
- Location: Saare, West Estonia and Islands, Estonia, Baltic states, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Saaremaa” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Saaremaa”
- Albanian: “Saaremaa”
- Arabic: “ساريما”
- Armenian: “Սաարեմաա”
- Azerbaijani: “Saaremaa”
- Basque: “Saaremaa”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Саарэмаа”
- Belarusian: “Саарэмаа”
- Bengali: “সারেমা”
- Bosnian: “Saaremaa”
- Breton: “Saaremaa”
- Bulgarian: “Сааремаа”
- Catalan: “Saaremaa”
- Cebuano: “Saaremaa”
- Chinese: “萨列马岛”
- Chinese: “萨雷马岛”
- Croatian: “saaremaa”
- Croatian: “Saaremaa”
- Czech: “Saaremaa Island (Estonia)”
- Czech: “Saaremaa”
- Czech: “Sarema”
- Danish: “Øsel”
- Dutch: “Saaremaa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ساريما”
- Erzya: “Сааремаа усия”
- Esperanto: “Saaremaa”
- Estonian: “Ösel”
- Estonian: “Saaremaa”
- Finnish: “Saarenmaa”
- French: “Île de Saaremaa”
- French: “Saaremaa”
- Galician: “Illa de Saaremaa”
- Georgian: “საარემაა”
- German: “Ösel”
- German: “Saaremaa Island (Estonia)”
- German: “Saaremaa”
- Greek: “Σάαρεμαα”
- Gujarati: “સરેમા”
- Hebrew: “סארמאה”
- Hindi: “सारेमा”
- Hungarian: “Saaremaa”
- Icelandic: “Saaremaa”
- Indonesian: “Saaremaa”
- Interlingue: “Saaremaa”
- Italian: “Saaremaa”
- Japanese: “サーレマー島”
- Kalaallisut: “Saaremaa”
- Kannada: “ಸರೆಮಾ”
- Kazakh: “Сааремаа”
- Korean: “사레마 섬”
- Korean: “사레마섬”
- Latin: “Osilia”
- Latvian: “Sāmsala”
- Lithuanian: “Sarema”
- Lombard: “Saaremaa”
- Low German: “Ösel”
- Lower Sorbian: “Saaremaa”
- Macedonian: “Сарема”
- Malay: “Saaremaa”
- Marathi: “सरेमा”
- Northern Frisian: “Saaremaa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Øsel”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Saaremaa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saaremaa”
- Norwegian: “Saaremaa”
- Ossetian: “Сааремаа”
- Ossetian: “Эзель”
- Persian: “سارما”
- Polish: “Sarema”
- Portuguese: “Saaremaa”
- Romanian: “Saaremaa”
- Russian: “Сааремаа”
- Russian: “Сарема”
- Russian: “Эзель”
- Saterfriesisch: “Saaremaa”
- Serbian: “Есел”
- Serbian: “Сарема (острво)”
- Serbian: “Сарема”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Saaremaa”
- Sinhala: “සාරෙමා”
- Slovak: “Saaremaa”
- Slovenian: “Saaremaa”
- Spanish: “Saaremaa”
- Swedish: “Ösel”
- Swedish: “Saaremaa”
- Tamil: “சாரிமா”
- Telugu: “సారేమా”
- Thai: “ซาเรมา”
- Thai: “รัฐชูบุต”
- Turkish: “Saaremaa”
- Ukrainian: “Езель”
- Ukrainian: “Сааремаа”
- Upper Sorbian: “Saaremaa”
- Urdu: “ساریما”
- Vietnamese: “Saaremaa”
- Võro: “Saarõmaa”
- Western Frisian: “Saaremaa”
- Wu Chinese: “萨雷马岛”
- “Saarõmaa”
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