Lohusalu is a
village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
in
Lääne-Harju Parish,
Harju County,
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 ...
. The village spans the Lohusalu
peninsula
A peninsula is a landform that extends from a mainland and is only connected to land on one side. Peninsulas exist on each continent. The largest peninsula in the world is the Arabian Peninsula.
Etymology
The word ''peninsula'' derives , . T ...
. In 2000, it had a population of 221.
["Arengukava 2004-2014" (in Estonian). Keila Vald http://www.keilavald.ee. . Retrieved 11 December 2009.]
The landscape of Lohusalu is quite diverse, although it is mostly covered by a
pine
A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus ''Pinus'' () of the family Pinaceae. ''Pinus'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae.
''World Flora Online'' accepts 134 species-rank taxa (119 species and 15 nothospecies) of pines as cu ...
forest with
blueberries for understory.
Sea Sandwort and
Japanese rose grow in abundance at the beaches.
Grassleaf orache,
European searocket and Triangle orache are well-known plant varieties in Lohusalu.
Near the Lohusalu peninsula, at Lohusalu bay, lies part of the
wreck (stern and fore under 11 meters) of the
passenger ship ''
Iosif Stalin''.
References
Villages in Harju County
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