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Kohtla-Järve

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Kohtla-Järve () is a city and municipality in Ida-Viru County, northeastern Estonia, founded in 1924 and incorporated as a town in 1946. The city is unusual among Estonian municipalities due to its discontiguous territorial span, being made of several separated parts, with the two largest of Kohtla-Järve proper (referred to as Järve) and Ahtme, both of which have populations of around 20,000 residents, being located about apart, with the now separated town of Jõhvi located between them. Several other settlements in north-eastern Ida-Viru county are administratively districts of Kohtla-Järve. K

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Kohtla-Järve is a city in northeastern Estonia, founded in 1924 and known for its unusual fragmented structure made up of several separated areas rather than a single continuous territory. The city matters as a significant municipality in Ida-Viru County, with its largest sections—Järve and Ahtme—each home to around 20,000 residents, though they are geographically distant from each other.

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Ahtme district of Kohtla-Järve in August 2009
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Location in Estonia.
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Country
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County
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24px Ida-Viru County
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Founded
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1241
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City status
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1946

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Kohtla-Järve linn

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Wikidata facts

Official name
Kohtla-Järve
Country
Estonia
Population
33434
Area
39.34
Official website
kohtla-jarve.ee
Image
Tammiku-Ahtme2009.JPG
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Category:Kohtla-Järve
inception
1946-01-01
Commons category
Kohtla-Järve
twinned administrative body
Umeå Municipality
category for people born here
Category:Births in Kohtla-Järve
category of associated people
Category:People from Kohtla-Järve
native label
Kohtla-Järve
postal code
30326
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Encyclopedic overview

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  • Demographics
  • Economy
  • Gallery
  • Twin towns – sister cities
  • See also
  • References
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Kohtla-Järve () is a city and municipality in Ida-Viru County, northeastern Estonia, founded in 1924 and incorporated as a town in 1946. The city is unusual among Estonian municipalities due to its discontiguous territorial span, being made of several separated parts, with the two largest of Kohtla-Järve proper (referred to as Järve) and Ahtme, both of which have populations of around 20,000 residents, being located about apart, with the now separated town of Jõhvi located between them. Several other settlements in north-eastern Ida-Viru county are administratively districts of Kohtla-Järve. Kohtla-Järve is presently the fifth-largest city in Estonia in terms of population.

Industrial oil shale extraction, which began in the 20th century, and processing into petrochemical products have strongly shaped the city's development. During the 1944–1991 Soviet occupation, large numbers of immigrant workers were brought from Russia and other parts of the former USSR and populated the city turning the area which had been, as of 1934 census, over 90% ethnic Estonian, overwhelmingly non-Estonian in the second half of the 20th century. As of 2006, 21% of the city's population are ethnic Estonians; most of the rest are Russians.

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