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Pauliku
Pauliku is a village in Jõhvi Parish, Ida-Viru County in northeastern Estonia. It is located just southwest of the town of Jõhvi and northwest of Ahtme, district of Kohtla-Järve. Pauliku is bordered by the Tallinn–Narva railway to the north and Tammiku spoil tip A spoil tip (also called a boney pile, culm bank, gob pile, waste tip or bing) is a pile built of accumulated ''spoil'' – waste material removed during mining. These waste materials are typically composed of shale, as well as smaller quant ... to the south. As of 2011 Census, the settlement's population was 70. References Villages in Ida-Viru County {{IdaViru-geo-stub ...
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Jõhvi Village
Jõhvi is a village in Jõhvi Parish, Ida-Viru County in northeastern Estonia. It is located just southwest of the town of Jõhvi Jõhvi is a town in northeastern Estonia, and the administrative centre of the Ida-Viru County. The town is also an administrative centre of Jõhvi Parish. It is situated about 50 km west of the Estonia–Russia international border. .... References Villages in Ida-Viru County Kreis Wierland {{IdaViru-geo-stub ...
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Tammiku, Jõhvi Parish
Tammiku is a small borough ( et, alevik) in Jõhvi Parish, Ida-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia. It's located about southwest of the town of Jõhvi and about northwest of Kohtla-Järve's Ahtme district. As of 2011 Census, the settlement's population was 291. Tammiku was first mentioned in 1241 in the Danish Census Book. It is the birthplace of Estonian amateur featherweight boxer Evald Seepere Evald Seepere (born ''Seeberg'', 4 May 1911 – 22 February 1990) was an Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across f ... (1911-1990) References Boroughs and small boroughs in Estonia {{idaviru-geo-stub ...
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Sompa Village
Sompa is a village in Jõhvi Parish, Ida-Viru County in northeastern Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a .... References Villages in Ida-Viru County {{IdaViru-geo-stub ...
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Kahula, Estonia
Kahula is a village in Jõhvi Parish, Ida-Viru County in northeastern Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a .... References Villages in Ida-Viru County {{IdaViru-geo-stub ...
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Edise, Estonia
Edise is a village in Jõhvi Parish, Ida-Viru County in northeastern Estonia. It is located just northwest of the town of Jõhvi Jõhvi is a town in northeastern Estonia, and the administrative centre of the Ida-Viru County. The town is also an administrative centre of Jõhvi Parish. It is situated about 50 km west of the Estonia–Russia international border. .... References Villages in Ida-Viru County {{IdaViru-geo-stub ...
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Jõhvi Parish
Jõhvi Parish ( et, Jõhvi vald) is an Estonian municipality located in Ida-Viru County, consisting of the county capital Jõhvi and its environs. It has a population of 13,174 (2006) and an area of . Settlements Towns Jõhvi Small boroughs Tammiku Villages Twin administrative entities Jõhvi is twinned with: * Loimaa, Finland, since 1997 * Uddevalla, Sweden, since 1997 * Kingisepp, Russia, since 1999 * Thisted, Denmark, since 2000 * Olecko Olecko (former since 1560, colloquially also , since 1928, lt, Alėcka) is a town in northeastern Poland, in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, located in Masuria near Ełk and Suwałki. It is situated at the mouth of the Lega river which fl ..., Poland, since 2006 References External links * Municipalities of Estonia {{IdaViru-geo-stub ...
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Ahtme
Ahtme is a settlement in Ida-Viru County, Estonia with a population of around 18,000. It is administered as the second major district of the town of Kohtla-Järve, despite being separate from the central district of Järve and geographically closer to the independent town of Jõhvi Jõhvi is a town in northeastern Estonia, and the administrative centre of the Ida-Viru County. The town is also an administrative centre of Jõhvi Parish. It is situated about 50 km west of the Estonia–Russia international border. ...
, located directly to the north. Ahtme was an independent town from 1953 to 1960. The economy is centered on the oil shale industry. Ahtme is divided into neighborhoods. One neighborhood is Tammiku. {{idaviru-geo-stub ...
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Narva
Narva, russian: Нарва is a municipality and city in Estonia. It is located in Ida-Viru County, Ida-Viru county, at the Extreme points of Estonia, eastern extreme point of Estonia, on the west bank of the Narva (river), Narva river which forms the Estonia–Russia border, Estonia–Russia international border. With 54,409 inhabitants (as of 2020) Narva is Estonia's third largest city after capital Tallinn and Tartu. In 1944, Narva was nearly completely destroyed during the battles of World War II. During the period of Soviet occupation of Estonia, Soviet occupation (1944–1991), the city’s original native inhabitants were not permitted to return after the war, and immigrant workers from Russia and other parts of the Soviet Union, former USSR were brought in to populate the city. The city whose population had been, as of 1934 census, 65% ethnic Estonian, became overwhelmingly non-Estonian in the second half of the 20th century. According to more recent data, 46.7% of th ...
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Statistics Estonia
Statistics Estonia ( et, Statistikaamet) is the Estonian government agency responsible for producing official statistics regarding Estonia. It is part of the Ministry of Finance (Estonia), Ministry of Finance. The agency has approximately 320 employees. The office of the agency is in Tatari, Tallinn, Tatari, Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' .... Statistics In November 2018, Statistics Estonia had released a metric of the exports of goods which showed increase by 18% while in December of the same year the industrial producer price index had fallen by .6% in comparison to last month but rose by 1.6%. According to the Statistics Estonia, it weighed pork production of the country and confirmed that the pork production had decreased from 50,000 tons in 2015 to 38 ...
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Spoil Tip
A spoil tip (also called a boney pile, culm bank, gob pile, waste tip or bing) is a pile built of accumulated ''spoil'' – waste material removed during mining. These waste materials are typically composed of shale, as well as smaller quantities of Carboniferous sandstone and other residues. Spoil tips are not formed of slag, but in some areas, such as England and Wales, they are referred to as slag heaps. In Scotland the word ''bing'' is used. The term "spoil" is also used to refer to material removed when digging a foundation, tunnel, or other large excavation. Such material may be ordinary soil and rocks (after separation of coal from waste), or may be heavily contaminated with chemical waste, determining how it may be disposed of. Clean spoil may be used for land reclamation. Spoil is distinct from tailings, which is the processed material that remains after the valuable components have been extracted from ore. Etymology The phrase originates from the French word ...
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Populated Places In Estonia
Populated places in Estonia (officially: settlement units), are cities or settlement units of rural municipalities, but only cities have administrative functions. Settlement units are divided into settlements and urban regions et, asum (subdivisions of cities). Officially there are five types of settlement units in Estonia: *town/city ( et, linn) *town without municipal status () *borough () *small borough () *village () See also * Municipalities of Estonia *List of cities and towns in Estonia *Counties of Estonia Counties ( et, maakond, plural ') are the first-level administrative subdivisions of Estonia. Estonian territory is composed of 15 counties, including 13 on the mainland and 2 on islands. The government (') of each county is led by a ' (gover ... Notes External links Place Names Board of Estonia
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Tallinn
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ''maakond'' (county). Tallinn is the main financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located northwest of the country's second largest city Tartu, however only south of Helsinki, Finland, also west of Saint Petersburg, Russia, north of Riga, Latvia, and east of Stockholm, Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century, Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical name Reval. Tallinn received Lübeck city rights in 1248,, however the earliest evidence of human population in the area dates back nearly 5,000 years. The medieval indigenous population of what is now Tallinn and northern Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Christianit ...
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