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Haabneeme
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Haabneeme is a small borough () in Viimsi Parish, Harju County, in northern Estonia alongside Viimsi. It's located about northeast of the centre of Tallinn, on the eastern coast of Tallinn Bay. With a population of 7,139 (), Haabneeme is the largest settlement in the municipality.

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Haabneeme
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Small borough
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Haabneeme aerial 2024.jpg
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Haabneeme from above
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Haabneeme from above
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Estonia
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bottom
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Location in Estonia
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Country
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County
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24px Harju County
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Municipality
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24px Viimsi Parish
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First mentioned
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1271
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7139
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As of 01.01.2025

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Haabneeme is a small borough () in Viimsi Parish, Harju County, in northern Estonia alongside Viimsi. It's located about northeast of the centre of Tallinn, on the eastern coast of Tallinn Bay. With a population of 7,139 (), Haabneeme is the largest settlement in the municipality.

Haabneeme was first mentioned in 1271 as Apones. During the Middle Ages Haabneeme was settled by Coastal Swedes. In the 1960s, Haabneeme garden city developed on both sides of the Rohuneeme road in the north. The central settlement was built from the 1960s to 1980s as the centre of the Kirov Collective Fishing Farm. In 1973 a new administrative building was opened. The shopping centre was built in 1976, hospital-polyclinic in 1979. As an addition to apartment buildings, a pension was opened in 1974, stadium in 1975, kindergarten in 1983 and a high school in 1981–1985.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Haabneeme” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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