Populated places in Estonia

Populated places in Estonia (officially: settlement units[1]), are cities or settlement units of rural municipalities, but only cities have administrative functions. Settlement units are divided into settlements[2] and urban regions[3] (subdivisions of cities).

Populated places in Estonia

Officially there are five types of settlement units in Estonia:

  • town/city (Est: linn)
  • town without municipal status (Est: vallasisene linn)
  • borough (Est: alev)
  • small borough (Est: alevik)
  • village (Est: küla)

See also

Notes

  1. Estonian: asustusüksus
  2. Estonian: asula
  3. Estonian: asum


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