Place:Valga, Estonia

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NameValga
Alt namesValgasource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Valga districtsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Valga maakondsource: Wikipedia
Valgamaasource: Wikipedia
TypeCounty
Located inEstonia
Contained Places
Municipality
Helme
Hummuli
Karula
Otepää
Palupera
Puka
Põdrala
Sangaste
Taheva
Tõlliste
Tõrva
Valga
Õru
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Valga County ( or Valgamaa) is a first-level administrative unit and one of 15 counties of Estonia. It comprises the former area of Valga District. The present-day county was created on 1 January 1990. The capital and largest town of Valga County is Valga, followed by Tõrva and Otepää. It is situated in the southern part of the country and borders Põlva and Võru County to the east, Latvia to the south and west, and Viljandi and Tartu County to the north. 29,944 people live in Valga County (as of 1 January 2015).

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