Tartu

Tartu is the second largest city in with a population of around 96,000. A Hanseatic city and a university town, it dates back to 1030, and as such it's the oldest city in the Baltics.
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Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
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  • Type: City with 102,000 residents
  • Description: second most populous city in Estonia
  • Also known as: “Dorpatas”, “Dörpt”, “Jurjev”, “Jurjew”, “Tarbatu”, “Tartolin”, “Tartu (Stad)”, “Tartus”, “Tērbata”, “Yuriev”, “Yuryev”, “Дерпт”, “Дорпат”, “Дэрпт”, “Јурјев”, “Юр’еў”, “Юр’їв”, “Юрьев”, and “তারতো”
Photo: Alinozka, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Town Hall and Tartu.

Town hall
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
Tartu is the seat of the city government of Tartu, . It is located on square, in the city centre.

Railway station
Photo: Anvelt, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.
railway station is a railway station in , . railway station is situated west of the centre . It was established in 1876 when –Tartu route was built.

Church
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
St. John's Church, Tartu is a Brick Gothic Lutheran church, one of the landmarks of the city of Tartu, . It is dedicated to John the Baptist.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Karlova.

Quarter
Photo: Kruusamägi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a neighbourhood of Tartu, . It has a population of 8,856 and an area of 2.30 km2.

Tartu

Latitude
58.378° or 58° 22′ 41″ north
Longitude
26.729° or 26° 43′ 44″ east
Population
102,000
Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)
IATA airport code
TAY
UN/LOCODE
EE TAY
Open location code
9GC89PHH+5J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 293620554
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
588335
Wiki­data ID
Q13972
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tartu” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tartu”
  • Albanian: “Tartu”
  • Arabic: “تارتو”
  • Aragonese: “Tartu”
  • Armenian: “Տարտու”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tartu”
  • Bashkir: “Тарту”
  • Basque: “Tartu”
  • Belarusian: “Тарту”
  • Bengali: “তারতু”
  • Bengali: “তার্তু”
  • Bosnian: “Tartu”
  • Breton: “Tartu”
  • Bulgarian: “Тарту”
  • Catalan: “Tartu”
  • Cebuano: “Tartu”
  • Central Bikol: “Tartu”
  • Central Kurdish: “تارتوو”
  • Chechen: “Тарту”
  • Chinese: “塔圖”
  • Chinese: “塔尔图”
  • Chinese: “答尔丢夫”
  • Chuvash: “Тарту”
  • Croatian: “Tartu”
  • Czech: “Tartu”
  • Danish: “Tartu”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tartu”
  • Dutch: “Tartu”
  • Eastern Mari: “Тарту”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تارتو”
  • Erzya: “Тарту ош”
  • Esperanto: “Tartu”
  • Estonian: “Tartu linn”
  • Estonian: “Tartu”
  • Finnish: “Tartto”
  • French: “Tartu”
  • Galician: “Tartu”
  • Georgian: “ტარტუ”
  • German: “Dorpat”
  • German: “Tartu”
  • Greek: “Ταρτού”
  • Greek: “Τάρτου”
  • Gujarati: “તાર્ટુ”
  • Hebrew: “טרטו”
  • Hindi: “तार्तू”
  • Hungarian: “Tartu”
  • Iban: “Tartu”
  • Icelandic: “Tartu”
  • Ido: “Tartu”
  • Inari Sami: “Tartto”
  • Indonesian: “Tartu”
  • Interlingue: “Tartu”
  • Irish: “Tartu”
  • Italian: “Tartu”
  • Japanese: “タルトゥ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Tartu”
  • Kannada: “ಟಾರ್ಟು”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tartu”
  • Kazakh: “Тарту”
  • Kirghiz: “Тарту”
  • Komi: “Тарту”
  • Korean: “타르투”
  • Latin: “Tarbatum”
  • Latvian: “Tartu”
  • Ligurian: “Tartu”
  • Limburgan: “Tartu”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Tartu”
  • Lithuanian: “Tartu”
  • Lombard: “Tartu”
  • Low German: “Derpt”
  • Low German: “Tartu”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tartu”
  • Macedonian: “Тарту”
  • Malagasy: “Tartu”
  • Malay: “Tartu”
  • Maltese: “Tartu”
  • Marathi: “टार्टू”
  • Marathi: “तार्तू”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tartu”
  • Moksha: “Тарту”
  • Mongolian: “Тарту”
  • Nauru: “Tartu”
  • Nepali: “टार्टू”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tartu (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tartu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tartu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tartu”
  • Norwegian: “Tartu”
  • Novial: “Tartu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tartu”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dorpat”
  • Ossetian: “Тарту”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਾਰਤੁ”
  • Persian: “تارتو”
  • Piemontese: “Tartu”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Taatu”
  • Polish: “Tartu”
  • Portuguese: “Tartu”
  • Quechua: “Tartu”
  • Romanian: “Tartu”
  • Russian: “Yur’yev” (historical)
  • Russian: “Yurev” (historical)
  • Russian: “Тарту”
  • Samogitian: “Tartu”
  • Scots: “Tartu”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tartu”
  • Serbian: “Тарту”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tartu”
  • Silesian: “Tartu”
  • Sinhala: “ටර්ටු”
  • Slovak: “Tartu”
  • Slovenian: “Tartu”
  • Spanish: “Tartu”
  • Swahili: “Tartu”
  • Swedish: “Dorpat” (historical)
  • Swedish: “Tartu”
  • Tagalog: “Tartu”
  • Tajik: “Тарту”
  • Tamil: “டார்டு”
  • Tatar: “Тарту”
  • Telugu: “తర్తు”
  • Thai: “ตาร์ตู”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Tartu”
  • Turkish: “Tartu”
  • Udmurt: “Тарту”
  • Ukrainian: “Тарту”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Tartu”
  • Urdu: “تارتو”
  • Uzbek: “Tartu”
  • Veps: “Tartu”
  • Vietnamese: “Tartu”
  • Volapük: “Tartu”
  • Võro: “Tarto”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tartu”
  • Welsh: “Tartu”
  • Western Armenian: “Դորպատ” (historical)
  • Western Armenian: “Թարթու”
  • Western Mari: “Тарту”
  • Wu Chinese: “塔尔图”
  • Yakut: “Тарту”
  • Yue Chinese: “塔圖”

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