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# Kohtla-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](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201391) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/estonia/kohtla-jarve/?format=json)


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