Tootsi | |
Settlement Type: | Borough |
Flag Size: | 85px |
Pushpin Map: | Estonia |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Estonia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Estonia |
Subdivision Type1: | County |
Subdivision Name1: | Pärnu County |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Põhja-Pärnumaa Parish |
Area Total Km2: | 1.76 |
Population Total: | 951 |
Population As Of: | 01.01.2009 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Website: | www.tootsi.ee |
Tootsi is a borough (Estonian: alev) in Põhja-Pärnumaa Parish, Pärnu County], in southwestern Estonia. Before the administrative reform in 2017, Tootsi had a municipality status of its own as Tootsi Parish (Estonian: Tootsi vald) within Pärnu County. It has the population of 951 (as of 1 January 2009) and an area of 1.76 km².[1]
Tootsi was founded in 1938, and in 1949 was granted borough rights.
Until December 2018 Tootsi had a station on the Tallinn - Pärnu railway line operated by Elron located in the neighbouring village of Elbi.
There is a museum dedicated to the peat industry in Tootsi.
Musician and playwright Ivar Põllu was born in Tootsi in 1974.