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Populated places in 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 ...
(officially: settlement units), are cities or settlement units of rural municipalities
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 ...
, 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
The following is a list of the 47 cities and towns in Estonia. Before the Republic of Estonia became an in independent nation in 1918, many of these locations were known in the rest of the world by their German language names which were occasiona ...
*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 ...
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External links
Place Names Board of Estonia
Geography of Estonia Subdivisions of Estonia {{estonia-stub