Wiek County

Wiek County (German: Kreis Wiek or Kreis Hapsal, Estonian: Lääne kreis, Russian: Гапсальскій/Викскій уѣздъ, romanized: Gapsalskiy/Vikskiy uyezd) was one of the four counties of the Russian Empire located in the Governorate of Estonia.

[1] It was situated in the western part of the governorate (in the northwestern part of present-day Estonia).

[2] At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Wiek County had a population of 82,077.

Of these, 92.2% spoke Estonian, 5.6% Swedish, 1.2% German, 0.6% Russian, 0.2% Ukrainian, and 0.1% Latvian as their native language.

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