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Jõhvi

town in north-eastern Estonia
Place city Q211059

Facts

14 properties
Instance of
city, alev
Country
Estonia, Soviet Union[2]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 59.358°, 27.412°
Capital of
Jõhvi Rural Municipality, Jõhvi Rural Municipality[27]
Area
+7.56[30]
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25][26]
Local dialing code
22[11]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Jõhvi City, Jõhvi Rural Municipality, Jõhvi Rural Municipality[1]
Native label
Jõhvi[29]
Official name
Jõhvi[28]
Population
11k (10k–11k, n=12)[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]
Postal code
71501–71599[10]
Shares border with
Pargitaguse, Jõhvi, Pauliku, Edise, Kotinuka, Linna, Kohtla-Järve[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
Time of earliest written record
1241[24]
🏷️ Also known as
en Jõhvi ar جوفي cs Jöhvi de Jõhvi linn fa یووی fi Jöhvi he ייהבי hi योहवी ja ユフヴィ ko 여흐비 ko 요흐비 ru Йыхви uk Йигві zh 約赫維 zh-hans 约赫维
🔖 Identifiers · 16
VIAF cluster ID
243220112
GND ID
7544410-0
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Johvi estonia.jpg ↗
EHAK id
2270
Facebook location ID
112283402117489
FactGrid item ID
Wikidata item
Freebase ID
/m/06fvgs
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2622039
GeoNames ID
591893
Image Archive, Herder Institute
Jõhvi
MusicBrainz area ID
a0776c14-83a3-4e04-aa99-ff0bc71da873
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3918142
Show all 16 identifiers +4
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2133227
Topic's main category
Category:Jõhvi
Who's on First ID
101815215
YSO ID
506132

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🔗 Connections
People born here 11
Elmo Nüganen, Eston Kohver, Harri Tiido, Tõnu Viik, Anna Maria Čeh, Ülo Uluots, Valentina Cherkasova, Andres Salumets +3 more
Shares border with 7
Kohtla-Järve, Edise, Kotinuka, Linna, Pargitaguse, Pauliku, Jõhvi
← Headquarters location 6
JK Eesti Põlevkivi Jõhvi, Jõhvi FC Phoenix, Viru Prison, Enefit Kaevandused AS, Põhjarannik, Ida-Viru County Government
← Shares border with 3
Pargitaguse, Jõhvi, Ahtme
Country 2
Estonia, Soviet Union
Located in this place 2
Jõhvi railway station, Jõhvi linnastaadion
← Capital 2
Ida-Viru County, Jõhvi Rural Municipality
← Category combines topics 2
Category:People from Jõhvi, Category:Births in Jõhvi
Capital of 1
Jõhvi Rural Municipality
Category for people born here 1
Category:Births in Jõhvi
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Jõhvi
Described by source 1
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Image Archive, Herder Institute 1
Jõhvi
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Jõhvi Rural Municipality
Located in time zone 1
Eastern European Summer Time
People who died here 1
Maret-Mai Otsa
Topic's main category 1
Category:Jõhvi
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Jõhvi
← FactGrid item ID 1
Pattishall
← Image Archive, Herder Institute 1
Jõhvi
← Terminus location 1
European route E264
← Work location 1
Johannes-Andreas Hanni
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  9. [1] ↑ . Classification of Estonian administrative units and settlements. wikidata.org.
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  29. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [30] ↑ . Statistical Database of Statistics Estonia. Retrieved . pub.stat.ee. Provenance: wikidata.org.

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  1. 11w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Category of associated people → Category:People from Jõhvi
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Jõhvi City, Jõhvi Rural Municipality, Jõhvi Rural Municipality
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 59.3575, 'lon': 27.412222222222}
    Described by source → Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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