City
Tallinn
Capital of Estonia
What guided this image
- Landmarks
- Toompea Castle; Russian Orthodox Alexander Nevsky Cathedral; St. Olaf's Church; Town Hall; Hanseatic; Toompea; Tallinn Bay; Danish/German Hanseatic Gothic
- Viewpoint
- Favor the classic elevated viewpoint from one of the Toompea viewing platforms (such as Kohtuotsa or Patkuli viewing platform) looking northeast over the red roofs of the Lower Town toward St. Olaf's spire and Tallinn Bay, showing the medieval wall towers in the middle-ground and the open Baltic Sea in the background.
- Palette
- Green should be the predominant color, especially in the bastion parklands (Toompark), Snelli pond willow trees, and Kadriorg Park woods.
- Guarded against
- Not Riga, Vilnius, or a generic Nordic town
Population394,024Wikidata: 393,222
Coordinates59.44°N, 24.75°E
Elevation28 m
Area159 km²
Time zoneEurope/TallinnUTC+2
Solar noon12:21clock runs 0.3 h ahead of the sun
Through the Earth
Dig straight through the Earth from Tallinn and you surface in open ocean, nearest to Waitangi, New Zealand — 2,243 km from the exact antipodal point.
Nearest cities in the atlas
| Helsinki | FI | 82 km |
| Riga | LV | 279 km |
| Saint Petersburg | RU | 317 km |
| Stockholm | SE | 378 km |
| Vilnius | LT | 529 km |
| Minsk | BY | 640 km |
| Oslo | NO | 786 km |
| Warsaw | PL | 835 km |
Twinned cities
- Beijing CN
- Hangzhou CN
- Helsinki FI
- Kyiv UA
- Moscow RU
- Odesa UA
- Riga LV
- Saint Petersburg RU
- Skopje MK
- Tbilisi GE
- Vienna AT
- Vilnius LT
12 of 23 twinned cities are in this atlas. See the full network →