List of cities and towns in Estonia

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The following is a list of cities and towns in Estonia. Many of these locations have been known, specially before 1918, by their German or Russian names, occasionally quite different from the Estonian ones. After the annexation of Estonia by the Soviet Union in 1940, although only Estonian names were used in Russian, the use of Russian language sources meant that some incorrect back-transliterations were used (e.g., Vilyandi, Pylva rather the correct Viljandi, Põlva).

Tallinn

Tartu

Narva

Kohtla-Järve

Pärnu

Viljandi

Rakvere

Maardu

List

#	Town	City rights	Population 1979	Population 1989	Population 2000	Population 2014	County (Maakond)
1.	Tallinn	1248	441800	478974	400781	429829	Harju
2.	Tartu	13th century	104381	113420	101241	97843	Tartu
3.	Narva	1345	75909	81221	68812	62068	Ida-Viru
4.	Pärnu	1318	54051	52389	45591	41523	Pärnu
5.	Kohtla-Järve	1946	87472	62059	47797	38197	Ida-Viru
6.	Viljandi	1283	22368	23080	20800	18490	Viljandi
7.	Rakvere	1302	19011	19822	17120	16338	Lääne-Viru
8.	Maardu	1980	?	16052	16733	15945	Harju
9.	Sillamäe	1957	16157	20561	17232	14586	Ida-Viru
10.	Kuressaare	1563	14207	16166	14922	14071	Saare
11.	Võru	1784	16767	17496	14905	13171	Võru
12.	Valga	1584	18474	17722	14352	13427	Valga
13.	Haapsalu	1279	13035	14617	12058	10811	Lääne
14.	Jõhvi*	1938	?	15607	12153	12354	Ida-Viru
15.	Paide	1291	9641	10849	9647	8547	Järva
16.	Keila	1938	7194	10072	9409	9747	Harju
17.	Kiviõli	1946	11050	10390	7435	5814	Ida-Viru
18.	Tapa*	1926	10851	10439	6799	8085	Lääne-Viru
19.	Põlva*	1993	?	7038	6461	10005	Põlva
20.	Jõgeva	1938	5289	7035	6430	5553	Jõgeva
21.	Türi*	1926	6626	6862	6330	9800	Järva
22.	Elva	1938	6358	6325	6029	5807	Tartu
23.	Rapla*	1993	5599	6271	5774	9473	Rapla
24.	Saue	1993	?	4395	4959	5924	Harju
25.	Põltsamaa	1926	4893	5207	4858	4380	Jõgeva
26.	Paldiski	1783	7311	7690	4261	4067	Harju
27.	Sindi	1938	4428	4548	4186	4138	Pärnu
28.	Kunda	1938	4828	5037	3896	3360	Lääne-Viru
29.	Kärdla*	1938	3426	4139	3775	4835	Hiiu
30.	Loksa	1993	?	4315	3493	2809	Harju
31.	Tõrva	1926	3157	3546	3209	2913	Valga
32.	Kehra*	1993	3679	4053	3228	5752	Harju
33.	Räpina*	1993	3247	3488	2968	5095	Põlva
34.	Narva-Jõesuu	1993	3135	3754	2997	2902	Ida-Viru
35.	Tamsalu*	1993	?	2978	2615	3991	Lääne-Viru
36.	Kilingi-Nõmme*	1938	2507	2504	2226	4188	Pärnu
37.	Otepää*	1936	2289	2424	2219	4051	Valga
38.	Karksi-Nuia*	1993	?	?	1993	3507	Viljandi
39.	Püssi*	1993	1869	2532	1874	3232	Ida-Viru
40.	Mustvee	1938	?	1994	1756	1449	Jõgeva
41.	Võhma	1993	?	1983	1599	1391	Viljandi
42.	Lihula*	1993	1624	1872	1499	2430	Lääne
43.	Antsla*	1938	1952	1688	1552	3517	Võru
44.	Abja-Paluoja*	1993	?	?	1422	2295	Viljandi
45.	Suure-Jaani*	1938	1653	1503	1327	5540	Viljandi
46.	Kallaste	1938	?	1361	1219	952	Tartu
47.	Mõisaküla	1938	?	1349	1169	864	Viljandi

* the town does not constitute its own municipality, but has instead united with a parish. ^[1]

Former towns

• Ahtme, 1953–1960, 1993–1995, merged with Kohtla-Järve;
• Jaanilinn (Ivangorod), 1617-1649, merged with Narva, annexed by Russian SFSR in 1945.
• Mustla, 1938-1979, town rights revoked;
• Nõmme, 1926-1940, merged with Tallinn;
• Petseri (Pechory), 1776-onwards, annexed by Russian SFSR in 1945.
• Toompea, 1248/1265/1288-1785, 1796-1878, merged with Tallinn;
• Vana-Pärnu, 1251-1617, merged with Pärnu.

See also

• Populated places in Estonia
• Municipalities of Estonia
• Counties of Estonia

References

• "Population figure and composition". Statistics Estonia.

1. Eesti Linnade Liidu Liikmed

External links

• Media related to Cities in Estonia at Wikimedia Commons
• Media related to Populated places in Estonia at Wikimedia Commons
• Map of Estonia at Archive.is (archived 2012-12-09)