Key facts
- Location
- Baltic Sea
- Major islands
- Väike-Pakri, Suur-Pakri
- Area
- 24.7 km (9.5 sq mi), 12.9 and 11.6 km
- Coastline
- 42 km (26.1 mi), 18.7 and 23.3 km
- Highest elevation
- 17 m (56 ft)
- County
- Harju County
- Municipality
- Lääne-Harju Parish
- Population
- 6 (2009)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Has part
- Suur-Pakri
- Country
- Estonia
- Located in
- Lääne-Harju Rural Municipality
- Area
- 24.7
- Elevation
- 17
- Body of water
- Gulf of Finland
- Image
- Pakri aerial.jpg
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- Commons category
- Pakri Islands
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Pakri islands (Estonian: Pakri saared, Swedish: Rågöarna) are two Estonian islands in the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea: Suur-Pakri and Väike-Pakri (Swedish: Stora Rågö and Lilla Rågö). Administratively the islands are part of the town of Paldiski. For centuries the two islands were inhabited by Estonian Swedes, until during World War II their entire civilian population was forced to leave.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pakri Islands” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.