Matjama is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

Peipsiääre Parish Peipsiääre Parish is a rural municipality located in the Tartu County, Estonia. The municipality of Peipsiäere was formed as a result of the administrative reform on 23 October 2017. Peipsiääre Parish area covers 652 square km and records a ...

Tartu County Tartu County ( or ''Tartumaa'') is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is located in eastern Estonia bordering Põlva County, Valga County, Viljandi County and Jõgeva County. The area of Tartu County is , which covers 6.9% of the territory of E ...

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

. It is located by the

Jõhvi Jõhvi ( ; ; ) is a town in northeastern Estonia, and the administrative seat of Ida-Viru County and Jõhvi Parish. The town is located about 50 km west of the Estonia–Russia international border. History Jõhvi was first mentioned as ...

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Tartu Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 97,759 (as of 2024). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast of Riga, Latvia. Tartu lies on the Emajõgi river, which connects the ...

– Valga road ( E264). As of the 2011 census, the settlement's population was 55. Matjama was the location of one of the earliest libraries in Tartu County, established in 1883. The theologist, orientalist, and syriologist Arthur Võõbus (1909–1988) was born in Matjama.

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Villages in Tartu County {{tartu-geo-stub