Official Name: | Mäense |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Estonia |
Subdivision Type1: | County |
Subdivision Name1: | Pärnu County |
Subdivision Type2: | Parish |
Subdivision Name2: | Lääneranna Parish |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Mäense is a village in Lääneranna Parish, Pärnu County, in western Estonia,[1] covering 6.537 km2. It is located along the Highway 190 which links the village to National Road 10, and is 1 kilometre away from Massu, the nearest village, and about 110 km in straight-line distance and 128 km in road distance away from Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It had a population of 20 in the 2000 census and a population of 12 in the 2011 Census. The population is 50% male (6 people) and 50% female (6 people), and there are no children under the age of 18, with 25% over 65 (3 people).[2] All inhabitants of the village identify as ethnic Estonians. The village is surrounded by farmland and woodland.
The village has a single bus stop at the southern end, which provides the inhabitants of the village twice-a-day service to Lihula, once at around 7am and once at around 4:30pm.[3]