Viljandi

Viljandi is a city and municipality in southern with a population of 17,000 in 2026. It is the capital of and is geographically located between two major Estonian cities, and .
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  • Type: Town with 19,100 residents
  • Description: town in southern Estonia
  • Also known as: “Vil’yandi”, “Vylandė”, and “Wiljandi”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Viljandi Castle and Viljandi linnastaadion.

Photo: Otoomet, Public domain.
is 13th Century castle in a Viljandi, . It was built by the Livonian Order, and construction started in 1224 in place of a former hillfort, which was one of the strongest castles in Livonia.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose stadium in Viljandi, . Opened in 1929 and located by , it is the home ground of Viljandi JK Tulevik. The stadium has 1,068 seats, of which 386 are under the roof.

Railway station
Photo: Uacs451, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway station serving the town of Viljandi in southern . The station is the southern terminus of the Tallinn–Viljandi railway line.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Viiratsi and Jämejala.

Village
Photo: Jeremiit, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.
is a small borough in , , . As of the 2011 census, the settlement's population was 1,332. The Commander-in-chief of the Estonian Army Johan Laidoner was born in Raja farmstead near , site now located in nearby Vardja village.

Hamlet
is a village in , , . It has a population of 199. It was a part of Pärsti Parish until 2013.

Viljandi

Latitude
58.3645° or 58° 21′ 52″ north
Longitude
25.5878° or 25° 35′ 16″ east
Population
19,100
Elevation
84 metres (276 feet)
Inception
1283
United Nations Location Code
EE VIL
Open location code
9GC79H7Q+R4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29949066
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
587577
Wiki­data ID
Q44840
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Viljandi” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Viljandi”
  • Arabic: “فيلياندي”
  • Aragonese: “Viljandi”
  • Armenian: “Վիլյանդի”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vilyandi”
  • Basque: “Viljandi”
  • Bavarian: “Viljandi”
  • Belarusian: “Вільяндзі”
  • Bulgarian: “Вилянди”
  • Catalan: “Viljandi”
  • Cebuano: “Viljandi”
  • Chinese: “維爾揚迪”
  • Chinese: “维尔扬迪”
  • Croatian: “Viljandi”
  • Czech: “Fellin”
  • Czech: “Viljandi linn”
  • Czech: “Viljandi”
  • Danish: “Felin”
  • Danish: “Fellin”
  • Danish: “Viljandi”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Viljandi”
  • Dutch: “Viljandi”
  • Eastern Mari: “Вильянди”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فيلياندى”
  • Erzya: “Вильянди ош”
  • Esperanto: “Viljandi”
  • Estonian: “Viljandi linn”
  • Estonian: “Viljandi”
  • Finnish: “Fellin”
  • Finnish: “Viljandi”
  • Finnish: “Viljanti”
  • French: “Fellin”
  • French: “Viljandi”
  • Galician: “Viljandi”
  • Georgian: “ვილიანდი”
  • German: “Fellin”
  • German: “Viljandi”
  • Greek: “Βίλγιαντι”
  • Hebrew: “ויליאנדי”
  • Hindi: “विल्यांदी”
  • Hungarian: “Viljandi”
  • Icelandic: “Viljandi”
  • Indonesian: “Fellin”
  • Indonesian: “Viljandi”
  • Irish: “Viljandi”
  • Italian: “Viljandi”
  • Italian: “Vilyandi”
  • Japanese: “ヴィリャンディ”
  • Japanese: “ヴィリヤンディ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Viljandi”
  • Kazakh: “Вильянди”
  • Korean: “빌랸디”
  • Korean: “빌리안디”
  • Latvian: “Vilande”
  • Latvian: “Vīlande” (historical)
  • Latvian: “Viljandi”
  • Lithuanian: “Felinas”
  • Lithuanian: “Viljandi”
  • Lithuanian: “Viljandis”
  • Low German: “Viljandi”
  • Luxembourgish: “Viljandi”
  • Macedonian: “Вилјанди”
  • Malay: “Viljandi”
  • Moksha: “Вильянди”
  • Mongolian: “Вильянди”
  • Nauru: “Viljandi”
  • Northern Frisian: “Viljandi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fellin”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Viljandi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fellin”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Viljandi”
  • Norwegian: “Viljandi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Viljandi”
  • Ossetian: “Вильянди”
  • Persian: “ویلیاندی”
  • Polish: “Felin”
  • Polish: “Fellin”
  • Polish: “Viljandi”
  • Portuguese: “Fellin”
  • Portuguese: “Viljandi”
  • Quechua: “Viljandi”
  • Romanian: “Viljandi”
  • Russian: “Вильянди”
  • Russian: “Феллин”
  • Samogitian: “Viljandis”
  • Scots: “Viljandi”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Viljandi”
  • Serbian: “Viljandi”
  • Serbian: “Виљанди”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Viljandi”
  • Slovak: “Viljandi”
  • Slovenian: “Viljandi”
  • Spanish: “Fellin”
  • Spanish: “Viljandi”
  • Swedish: “Fellin”
  • Swedish: “Viljandi”
  • Tatar: “Вильянди”
  • Thai: “วิลยันตี”
  • Tumbuka: “Viljandi”
  • Turkish: “Viljandi”
  • Udmurt: “Вильянди”
  • Ukrainian: “Вільянді”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Viljandi”
  • Urdu: “ویلیاندی”
  • Veps: “Vil’jandi”
  • Vietnamese: “Viljandi”
  • Volapük: “Viljandi”
  • Võro: “Viländi”
  • Võro: “Viljandi”
  • Võro: “Villändi”
  • Welsh: “Viljandi, Estonia”
  • Western Mari: “Вильянди”
  • Wu Chinese: “维尔扬迪”
  • “Viländi”
  • “Viljandis”

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