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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 ...

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, subdivision_name1 = Ida-Virumaa lipp

Ida-Viru County Ida-Viru County ( et, Ida-Viru maakond or ''Ida-Virumaa'') is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is the most north-eastern part of the country. The county contains large deposits of oil shale - the main mineral mined in Estonia. Oil shale is used ...

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Narva-Jõesuu Narva-Jõesuu (; russian: Усть-Нарва, ''Ust'-Narva'', Нарва-Йыэсуу, Усть-Нарова) is a town in Ida-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia. Geography It is located on the country's northern Baltic coast of the Gul ...

, leader_party = , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Maksim Iljin , area_total_km2 = 405 , population_total = 4429 , population_as_of = 01.01.2019 , population_density_km2 = auto , website = , official_name = , iso_code = EE-514 Narva-Jõesuu ( et, Narva-Jõesuu linn) is an urban

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

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. It comprises the town of

, settlements of the former parish of Vaivara, and two former distant

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s (the

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mining settlements Sirgala and

Viivikonna Viivikonna is a village in Narva-Jõesuu municipality, Ida-Viru County in norteastern Estonia. Once, it was known as a "central mining town" in Estonia, but today, it is a remote and near-abandoned village.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 ...

. The municipality surrounds two exclave

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districts) of the city of

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 ...

, Olgina and Kudruküla, both of which share their names with an adjacent village in Narva-Jõesuu municipality.

Settlements

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;boroughs * Sinimäe –

Olgina Olgina is a small borough (') in Narva-Jõesuu, Ida-Viru County in northeastern Estonia. At the 2011 Census, the settlement's population was 459, of which ethnic Estonians Estonians or Estonian people ( et, eestlased) are a Finnic eth ...

;villages * Arumäe –

Auvere Auvere (german: Ampfer) is a village in Narva-Jõesuu, Ida-Viru County in northeastern Estonia. (retrieved 28 July 2021) See also *Battle of Auvere Battle of Auvere was a battle in Estonia, starting on July 20, 1944 and ending on July 25. ...

– Hiiemetsa – Hundinurga – Laagna – Kudruküla – Meriküla – Mustanina – Peeterristi – Perjatsi – Pimestiku – Puhkova – Sirgala – Soldina – Sõtke– Tõrvajõe – Udria – Vaivara –

Symbols

Narva-Jõesuu's flag and coat of arms were designed and approved in the mid-1990s by the chairman of the local government Pavel Grigorjev. The gold strips of land on the image symbolise Estonian and Russian coasts on both sides along the Narva River and the blue area symbolises its iconic mouth.

Twinnings

Billund Municipality Billund is a municipality in the centre of the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark. Formerly the municipality belonged to Ribe County. The new, merged municipality covers an area of 540.18 km², and has a total population of 26,172 (2010). Its mayor ...

, Denmark *

Imatra Imatra is a town and municipality in southeastern Finland. Imatra is dominated by Lake Saimaa, the Vuoksi River and the border with Russia. On the other side of the border, away from the centre of Imatra, lies the Russian town of Svetogorsk. ...

, Finland *

Kronstadt Kronstadt (russian: Кроншта́дт, Kronshtadt ), also spelled Kronshtadt, Cronstadt or Kronštádt (from german: link=no, Krone for "crown" and ''Stadt'' for "city") is a Russian port city in Kronshtadtsky District of the federal city of ...

, Russia

References

External links

* Ida-Viru County Municipalities of Estonia {{Ida-Viru-geo-stub