Viljandi
Viljandi is a city and municipality in southern Estonia with a population of 17,000 in 2026. It is the capital of Viljandi County and is geographically located between two major Estonian cities, Pärnu and Tartu.
Photo: MaSii, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 19,100 residents
- Description: town in southern Estonia
- Also known as: “Felinas”, “Vil’yandi”, “Vilande”, “Viljandi linn”, “Viljanti”, “Villändi”, “Vylandė”, “Wiljandi”, “Феллин”, and “ヴィリヤンディ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Viljandi Castle and Viljandi linnastaadion.
Viljandi Castle
Photo: Otoomet, Public domain.Viljandi linnastaadion
Stadium
Viljandi railway station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Viiratsi and Jämejala.
Viljandi
- Categories: city, Hanseatic city, and locality
- Location: Viljandi County, South Estonia, Estonia, Baltic states, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
58.3645° or 58° 21′ 52″ north
Longitude
25.5878° or 25° 35′ 16″ east
Population
19,100
Elevation
84 metres (276 feet)
Established
1283
UN/LOCODE
EE VIL
Open location code
9GC79H7Q+R4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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: “Viljandi”
- Danish: “Felin”
- Danish: “Viljandi”
- Dimli (individual language): “Viljandi”
- Dutch: “Viljandi”
- Eastern Mari: “Вильянди”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فيلياندى”
- Erzya: “Вильянди ош”
- Esperanto: “Viljandi”
- Estonian: “Viljandi”
- Finnish: “Viljandi”
- French: “Viljandi”
- Galician: “Viljandi”
- Georgian: “ვილიანდი”
- German: “Fellin”
- German: “Viljandi”
- Greek: “Βίλγιαντι”
- Hebrew: “ויליאנדי”
- Hindi: “विल्यांदी”
- Hungarian: “Viljandi”
- Icelandic: “Viljandi”
- Indonesian: “Viljandi”
- Irish: “Viljandi”
- Italian: “Viljandi”
- Japanese: “ヴィリャンディ”
- Kalaallisut: “Viljandi”
- Kazakh: “Вильянди”
- Korean: “빌랸디”
- Korean: “빌리안디”
- Latvian: “Vīlande” (historical)
- Latvian: “Viljandi”
- Lithuanian: “Viljandis”
- Low German: “Viljandi”
- Luxembourgish: “Viljandi”
- Macedonian: “Вилјанди”
- Malay: “Viljandi”
- Moksha: “Вильянди”
- Mongolian: “Вильянди”
- Nauru: “Viljandi”
- Northern Frisian: “Viljandi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Viljandi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Viljandi”
- Norwegian: “Viljandi”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Viljandi”
- Ossetian: “Вильянди”
- Persian: “ویلیاندی”
- Polish: “Felin”
- Polish: “Viljandi”
- Portuguese: “Viljandi”
- Quechua: “Viljandi”
- Romanian: “Viljandi”
- Russian: “Вильянди”
- Samogitian: “Viljandis”
- Scots: “Viljandi”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Viljandi”
- Serbian: “Виљанди”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Viljandi”
- Slovak: “Viljandi”
- Slovenian: “Viljandi”
- Spanish: “Viljandi”
- 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”
- Welsh: “Viljandi, Estonia”
- Western Mari: “Вильянди”
- Wu Chinese: “维尔扬迪”
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