Populated places in Estonia

Populated places¹ in Estonia are settlements or territorial units within a municipality. Populated places have no administrative functions. A group of populated places form a rural municipality with local administration. Most towns constitute separate urban municipalities, while some have joined with surrounding rural municipalities.

Officially there are four types of populated places in Estonia:

• town (est: linn)
• borough (est: alev)
• small borough (est: alevik)
• village (est: küla)

As of 1 November 2002, there are 47 towns, 9 boroughs, 173 small boroughs and 4,430 villages in Estonia.

Notes

See also

• Municipalities of Estonia
• List of towns in Estonia
• Counties of Estonia

External links

• Place Names Board of Estonia

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