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Kohtla-Järve : Estonia

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Kohtla-Jrve Travel: Estonia

Kohtla-Jrve is a city in northeast Estonia, founded in 1900 and incorporated as a town in 1945. It has a population of 47,679 as of 2000. The city is very industrial, and both processes oil shales and is a large producer of various petroleum products. The city is also very diverse ethnically; it contains people of nearly 40 ethnic groups and only 21% of the population is Estonian. Many ethnic Estonians in the city have adopted Russian as their primary language.

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