Elamur LocationsKohtla-Järve
A settlement in Estonia.
English name
Kohtla-Järve — Estonian Latin-script name used in English; native spelling and punctuation retained.
Other forms in use:
- Kohtla Järve — Unhyphenated search and index variant; official Estonian uses a hyphen.
- Kokhtla-Yarve — Russian-based romanization, associated with Soviet and Russian-language references.
- Kokhtla-Jarve — Mixed international/Russian-based spelling in older references.
- Kohtla-Jarve — Spelling without native diacritics, used in English plain-text indexes and international search; not a separate exonym.
French name
Kohtla-Järve — Same spelling as in English; French references retain the local Latin-script name, without a fixed article.
Other forms in use:
- Kohtla Järve — Unhyphenated French index variant; the official hyphen is preferred.
- Kokhtla-Iarvé — Older Russian-mediated French form, attested in Soviet-era French-language publishing.
- Kohtla-Jarve — French plain-text and search variant without native diacritics; the main form keeps the local spelling.
About
Kohtla-Järve is an industrial city in Ida-Viru County in north-eastern Estonia. Its separate urban districts grew around oil-shale mining and processing.
Notes
The city is spatially discontinuous; do not describe all districts as one compact settlement. Input label 'Кохтла-Ярве' is Ukrainian or an indirect spelling; local_name is restored to the native-language form.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q201391 · JSON
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