Ahtme is a settlement in
Ida-Viru County,
Estonia
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with a population of around 18,000. It is administered as the second major district of the town of
Kohtla-Järve
Kohtla-Järve is a city and municipality in northeastern Estonia, founded in 1924 and incorporated as a town in 1946. The city is highly industrial, and is both a processor of oil shales and is a large producer of various petrochemical products ...
, 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.
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, 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.
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