Mõisaküla, Viljandi County, Estonia
🇪🇪 Mõisaküla is a town in southern Estonia, part of Mulgi Parish of Viljandi County, just next to the border of Latvia. It is considered to be the smallest town in Estonia.
The town has 32 streets, with the total length of 15,5 km. There are 401 dwellings in Mõisaküla, consisting mainly of small 1- or 2-floor small houses.
The closest regional centres are Viljandi (49 km away) and Pärnu (63 km). It is 189 km from the capital city, Tallinn, and 125 km from the second largest city, Tartu.
History Mõisaküla arose on the fens of Abja manor (mõis), after which it is named. It was a large railway hub in the 1920s and 1930s, when two narrow-gauge lines came through Mõisaküla, serving all of Estonia until the 1970s when the Soviets closed both lines. It became a town on 1 May 1938.
A Lutheran church was established in 1934, but was burned and destroyed in 1983; restoration of the church started in 2005 and the church reopened in 2014.
Mõisaküla is the birthplace of Olympic weightlifting medalist Arnold Luhaäär. Luhaäär's medals are on permanent display at the Mõisaküla Museum. It is also the birthplace of stage and film actress Rita Raave.
Europe/Tallinn/Viljandimaa
🇷🇴 Alexandria 25.333
Locations Near: Mõisaküla 25.1833,58.0833
🇱🇻 Ogre 24.606,56.817 d: 144.9
🇪🇪 Kesklinn 24.75,59.433 d: 152.2
🇪🇪 Tallinn 24.733,59.433 d: 152.3
🇪🇪 Tartu 26.715,58.371 d: 95.2
🇱🇻 Riga 24.115,56.946 d: 141.6
🇪🇪 Rakvere 26.362,59.349 d: 156.3
🇱🇻 Jūrmala 23.75,56.967 d: 150.8
🇱🇻 Jelgava 23.724,56.652 d: 181.6
Antipodal to: Mõisaküla -154.817,-58.083
🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 15485.9
🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 15589.3
🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 14966.8
🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 14894.4
🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 11363.1
🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 11251.3
🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 11234.6
🇺🇸 Kahului -156.466,20.891 d: 11232.2