Võsu
Sign in to saveVõsu is a small borough () in Lääne-Viru County, in Haljala Parish, in Estonia. It was the administrative centre of Vihula Parish. As of the 2011 census, the settlement's population was 334.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Võsu is referenced by 263 other articles, and connects out to list of boroughs in Estonia, 2011 Population and Housing Census and Estonia.
The entry is geolocated on the map in EE, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Boroughs and small boroughs in Estonia, Former municipalities of Estonia and Geography articles needing translation from Estonian Wikipedia.
Its subject is documented across 20 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Võsu
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Small borough
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Vosu Estonia centr.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Street in Võsu
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Estonia
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Estonia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- 24px Lääne-Viru County
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Haljala Parish
- Settlement.population_total
- 334
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011 Census
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Estonia
- Located in
- Haljala Rural Municipality
- Population
- 377
- Area
- 5.79
- Capital of
- Vihula Rural Municipality
- Image
- Vosu Estonia centr.JPG
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- Võsu
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Name
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Võsu is a small borough () in Lääne-Viru County, in Haljala Parish, in Estonia. It was the administrative centre of Vihula Parish. As of the 2011 census, the settlement's population was 334.
==Name== Võsu was attested in historical sources as Wöso in 1510, Wose in 1586, and Weso in 1726. The settlement was named after the (attested in 1534 as Fassenbek and Wesenbeck), the name of which is derived from the noun võsa 'brushwood, brush, scrub'.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Võsu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations