Aasumetsa is a village in

Haljala Parish Haljala Parish () is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Lääne-Viru County. It has a population of 4297 (2021) and an area of 549 km2. Populated places Small borough Haljala - Võsu Villages Aaspere - Aasu - Aasumetsa - Aaviku - ...

Lääne-Viru County Lääne-Viru County ( or ''Lääne-Virumaa'') is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is in northern Estonia, on the south coast of the Gulf of Finland. In Estonian, ''lääne'' means western and ''ida'' means east or eastern. Lääne-Viru borders Id ...

, in northeastern

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

. It lies on the right bank of the

Loobu River The Loobu is a river in northern Estonia. Its source is about 12 km southwest of Rakvere in Lääne-Viru County and it drains into Eru Bay (part of Finnish Gulf) near the village of Vihasoo in Lahemaa National Park. Its drainage basin ...

Name

The name ''Aasumetsa'' is a compound of ''aasu'', referring to a bend in a river or a meadow in such a bend, and ''mets'' (genitive ''metsa'') 'forest'. The first part of the name comes from the name of a scattered farm. The village is located on a bend in Loobu River where a meadow meets the forest.

References

Villages in Lääne-Viru County {{LääneViru-geo-stub