Tallinn
Tallinn is Estonia's capital and largest city. Tallinn is an important port of the Baltic Sea, with the busy passenger section of the port reaching the foothill of the picturesque medieval Old Town, which has been astonishingly well preserved and was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1997.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 462,000 residents
- Description: capital and most populous city of Estonia
- Also known as: “Kallinn”, “Kolyvan”, “Kolywan”, “Lindanäs”, “Lyndanisse”, “Reuel”, “Revel‘”, “Rewel”, and “Tallinn, Estonia”
- Historically known as: “Reval” and “Revel”
Photo: Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Nicholas Church and Lilleküla Stadium.
St. Nicholas Church
Museum
Photo: Iifar, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.
St. Nicholas Church is a medieval church building in Tallinn, Estonia. It was dedicated to Saint Nicholas, the patron of the fishermen and sailors. Originally built as a Catholic church in the 13th century, it turned Lutheran during the Protestant Reformation in 1520s.
Lilleküla Stadium
Stadium
Photo: toivo, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Lilleküla Stadium, known as A. Le Coq Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Tallinn, Estonia. It is the home ground of football clubs Flora and Levadia, and the Estonia national football team.
Stenbock House
Photo: Iifar, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.
Stenbock House is a prominent neo-classical building located on Toompea hill, Tallinn. It is the official seat of the Government of Estonia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kesklinn and Põhja-Tallinn.
Kesklinn
Suburb
Photo: Pjotr Mahhonin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kesklinn is one of the 8 administrative districts of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It is situated on the Tallinn Bay and bordered to the northwest by the district of Põhja-Tallinn, to the west by Kristiine, to the southwest by Nõmme, to the east by Lasnamäe and Pirita, and to the south by Rae Parish, beyond Lake Ülemiste.
Põhja-Tallinn
Suburb
Photo: Iifar, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.
Põhja-Tallinn is one of the eight administrative districts of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.
Kristiine
Suburb
Photo: Liilia Moroz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kristiine is one of the 8 administrative districts of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Kristiine is divided into 3 subdistricts : The name of Kristiine originates from the Swedish Queen Christina, under whose rule in 1653 the area was divided into 46 pieces and sold to businessmen and city officials for 100 riksdaler.
Tallinn
- Categories: Hanseatic city, city, big city, port city, tourist destination, and locality
- Location: Harju, North Estonia, Estonia, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
59.4333° or 59° 26′ northLongitude
24.75° or 24° 45′ eastPopulation
462,000Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)IATA airport code
TLLUnited Nations Location Code
EE TLLOpen location code
9GF6CQM2+82OpenStreetMap ID
node 29787492OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
588409Wikidata ID
Q1770
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Tallinn” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Таллин”
- Achinese: “Tallinn”
- Adyghe: “Таллин”
- Afrikaans: “Tallinn”
- Albanian: “Reval”
- Albanian: “Talini”
- Amharic: “ታሊን”
- Arabic: “تالين”
- Aragonese: “Tallinn”
- Armenian: “Տալլին”
- Asturian: “Tallín”
- Avaric: “Таллин”
- Aymara: “Tallin”
- Azerbaijani: “Tallin”
- Balinese: “Tallinn”
- Bambara: “Talin”
- Bashkir: “Таллин”
- Bashkir: “Таллинн”
- Basque: “Tallinn”
- Bavarian: “Tallinn”
- Belarusian: “Талін”
- Bengali: “তালিন”
- Bengali: “তাল্লিন”
- Betawi: “Talin”
- Bosnian: “Talin”
- Bosnian: “Tallinn”
- Breton: “Tallinn”
- Bulgarian: “Талин”
- Catalan: “Tallinn”
- Cebuano: “Tallinn”
- Central Bikol: “Tallinn”
- Central Kurdish: “تاڵین”
- Chechen: “Таллин”
- Chinese: “Tallinn”
- Chinese: “塔林”
- Church Slavic: “Талинъ”
- Chuvash: “Таллин”
- Cornish: “Tallinn”
- Corsican: “Tallinn”
- Crimean Tatar: “Tallinn”
- Croatian: “Tallinn”
- Czech: “Tallinn”
- Danish: “Kolywan”
- Danish: “Lindanâs”
- Danish: “Lyndanisse”
- Danish: “Reuel”
- Danish: “Reval”
- Danish: “Revel”
- Danish: “Rewel”
- Danish: “Tallinn”
- Dimli (individual language): “Talin”
- Dimli (individual language): “Tallinn”
- Dutch: “Reval”
- Dutch: “Tallinn”
- Eastern Mari: “Таллинн”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تالين”
- Erzya: “Таллин ош”
- Erzya: “Таллин”
- Esperanto: “Talino”
- Estonian: “Kolõvan”
- Estonian: “Lindanisa”
- Estonian: “Reval”
- Estonian: “Revel”
- Estonian: “Tallinn”
- Estonian: “Tallinna linn”
- Ewe: “Tallinn”
- Extremaduran: “Tallín”
- Faroese: “Tallinn”
- Fiji Hindi: “Tallinn”
- Finnish: “Rääveli” (historical)
- Finnish: “Reval”
- Finnish: “Tallinn”
- Finnish: “Tallinna”
- French: “Reval”
- French: “Tallinn”
- Fulah: “Tallinn”
- Gagauz: “Tallinn”
- Galician: “Talín”
- Galician: “Tallinn”
- Georgian: “ტალინი”
- German: “Tallinn”
- German: “Reval” (historical)
- Greek: “Ρέβαλ, Ρεβάλη”
- Greek: “Ταλιν”
- Greek: “Ταλίν”
- Greek: “Τάλιν”
- Greek: “Ταλλίν”
- Guarani: “Talin”
- Guianese Creole French: “Tallinn”
- Gujarati: “ટાલીન”
- Haitian: “Talin”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tallinn”
- Hausa: “Tallinn”
- Hebrew: “טאלין”
- Hindi: “तालिन”
- Hindi: “ताल्लिन”
- Hungarian: “Tallin”
- Hungarian: “Tallinn”
- Iban: “Tallinn”
- Icelandic: “Tallinn”
- Ido: “Tallinn”
- Igbo: “Tallinn”
- Inari Sami: “Tallinna”
- Indonesian: “Tallinn”
- Interlingua: “Tallinn”
- Interlingue: “Tallinn”
- Irish: “Taillinn”
- Italian: “Tallinn”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Tallinn”
- Japanese: “タリン”
- Javanese: “Tallinn”
- Kabyle: “Tallinn”
- Kalaallisut: “Tallinn”
- Kannada: “ಟ್ಯಾಲಿನ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Tallin”
- Kashubian: “Tallinn”
- Kazakh: “Колывань”
- Kazakh: “Ревель”
- Kazakh: “Таллин қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Таллин”
- Kazakh: “Таллинн”
- Kinyarwanda: “Tallinn”
- Kirghiz: “Таллин”
- Komering: “Tallinn”
- Komi-Permyak: “Таллинн”
- Komi: “Таллинн”
- Korean: “탈린”
- Kotava: “Tallinn”
- Kurdish: “Tallinn”
- Ladino: “Tallin”
- Lao: “ຕາລິນ”
- Latgalian: “Talins”
- Latin: “Castrum Danorum”
- Latin: “Revalia”
- Latin: “Tallinna”
- Latvian: “Rēvele”
- Latvian: “Tallina”
- Ligurian: “Tallinn”
- Limburgan: “Tallinn”
- Lingala: “Tallinn”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Tallinn”
- Lithuanian: “Talinas”
- Livvi: “Tallinn”
- Lojban: “talin”
- Lombard: “Tallinn”
- Low German: “Revel”
- Lower Sorbian: “Tallinn”
- Luxembourgish: “Tallinn”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Tallinn”
- Macedonian: “Талин”
- Madurese: “Tallinn”
- Malagasy: “Tallinn”
- Malay: “Tallinn”
- Malayalam: “ടാലിൻ”
- Maltese: “Tallinn”
- Manx: “Tallinn”
- Maori: “Tallinn”
- Marathi: “तालिन”
- Mazanderani: “تالین”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Tallinn”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tallinn”
- Minangkabau: “Tallinn”
- Mingrelian: “ტალინი”
- Mirandese: “Tallinn”
- Moksha: “Таллинн”
- Mongolian: “Таллин”
- Moroccan Arabic: “طالين”
- Nauru: “Tallinn”
- Nepali: “ताल्लिन”
- Northern Frisian: “Tallinn”
- Northern Luri: “تالین”
- Northern Sami: “Tallinn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Reval”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tallinn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tallinn”
- Norwegian: “Tallinn”
- Novial: “Tallinn”
- Nyanja: “Tallinn”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tallinn”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Refal”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Reval”
- Ossetian: “Таллин”
- Panjabi: “ਤਾਲਿਨ”
- Papiamento: “Tallinn”
- Pennsylvania German: “Tallinn”
- Persian: “تالین”
- Piemontese: “Tallin”
- Piemontese: “Tàllin”
- Piemontese: “Tallinn”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Tallinn”
- Polish: “Rewel”
- Polish: “Tallin”
- Polish: “Tallinn”
- Portuguese: “Tallinn”
- Pushto: “تالین”
- Quechua: “Tallin”
- Quechua: “Tallinn”
- Romanian: “Talin”
- Romanian: “Tallinn”
- Romanian: “Талин”
- Romansh: “Tallinn”
- Russian: “Колывань”
- Russian: “Ревель”
- Russian: “Таллин”
- Russian: “Таллинн”
- Rusyn: “Таллінн”
- Sakizaya: “Ta-lin”
- Samogitian: “Talins”
- Sango: “Tallinn”
- Sardinian: “Tallinn”
- Saterfriesisch: “Tallinn”
- Scots: “Tallinn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Tallinn”
- Serbian: “Reval”
- Serbian: “Revel”
- Serbian: “Talin”
- Serbian: “Ревал”
- Serbian: “Ревел”
- Serbian: “Талин”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Talin”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tallinn”
- Shona: “Tallinn”
- Sicilian: “Tallin”
- Silesian: “Tallinn”
- Sindhi: “تالن”
- Sinhala: “ටලින්”
- Slovak: “Tallinn”
- Slovenian: “Talin”
- South Azerbaijani: “تالین”
- Southern Sotho: “Tallinn”
- Spanish: “Tallin”
- Swahili: “Tallinn”
- Swedish: “Lindanäs” (historical)
- Swedish: “Reval” (historical)
- Swedish: “Tallinn”
- Swiss German: “Tallinn”
- Tagalog: “Tallin”
- Tagalog: “Tallinn”
- Tajik: “Таллин”
- Talysh: “Tallinn”
- Tamil: “டால்லின்”
- Tamil: “தாலின்”
- Tatar: “Таллин”
- Tatar: “Таллинн”
- Telugu: “టాల్లిన్”
- Thai: “ทาลลินน์”
- Tibetan: “ཏཱལ་་ལིན།”
- Tok Pisin: “Talin”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Talini”
- Tosk Albanian: “Tallinn”
- Tumbuka: “Tallinn”
- Turkish: “Tallinn”
- Turkmen: “Tallin”
- Twi: “Talinn”
- Twi: “Tallinn”
- Udmurt: “Таллин”
- Uighur: “Tallinn”
- Uighur: “تاللىن”
- Ukrainian: “Таллінн”
- Upper Sorbian: “Tallinn”
- Urdu: “تالین”
- Urdu: “ٹالن”
- Uzbek: “Tallin”
- Uzbek: “Tallinn”
- Venetian: “Tałin”
- Venetian: “Tallinn”
- Veps: “Tallidn”
- Veps: “Tallin”
- Veps: “Tallinn”
- Vietnamese: “Tallinn”
- Vlaams: “Tallinn”
- Vlax Romani: “Tallinn”
- Volapük: “Tallinn”
- Võro: “Talliin”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tallinn”
- Welsh: “Tallinn”
- Western Armenian: “Թալլին”
- Western Frisian: “Tallin”
- Western Frisian: “Tallinn”
- Western Mari: “Таллинн”
- Western Panjabi: “ٹالن”
- Wolof: “Talin”
- Wu Chinese: “塔林”
- Yakut: “Таллинн”
- Yiddish: “טאלין”
- Yoruba: “Tallinn”
- Yue Chinese: “塔林”
- Zeeuws: “Tallinn”
- Zulu: “i-Tallinn”
- “Talins”
- “Talliin”
- “Tallin”
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