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Haapsalu

Haapsalu () is a seaside resort town located on the west coast of Estonia. It is the administrative centre of Lääne County, and on 1 January 2020 it had a population of 9,375.

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Haapsalu is a seaside resort town on Estonia's west coast that serves as the administrative center for Lääne County. As of January 2020, it had a population of approximately 9,400 people.

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Settlement.name: Haapsalu
Settlement.settlement_type: Town
Settlement.image_skyline: Haapsalu - view from Castle.jpg
Settlement.imagesize: 275px
Settlement.image_caption: View from Haapsalu Castle
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location within Estonia##Location within Baltic Sea region##Location within Europe
Settlement.pushpin_map: Estonia#Baltic Sea#Europe
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: County
Settlement.subdivision_name1: border|23px Lääne
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name2

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History
Neighborhoods of Haapsalu
Healing by sea mud
Other attractions
Demographics
In popular culture
Gallery
See also
References
External links

Haapsalu () is a seaside resort town located on the west coast of Estonia. It is the administrative centre of Lääne County, and on 1 January 2020 it had a population of 9,375.

==History== The name Haapsalu derives from the Estonian words haab 'aspen' and salu in the archaic sense '(forested) island' (now 'grove'). Until the first half of the 20th century, in Swedish and German the town was called Hapsal. Haapsalu and the surrounding area was the center for the Estonian Swedes from the 13th century until the evacuation of almost all ethnic Swedes from Estonia prior to the Soviet invasion of Estonia during World War II in 1944.