Maardu is a town

Populated places in Estonia

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 and a municipality

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 in Harju County

Harju County

Harju County , or Harjumaa , nowadays one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is situated in northern Estonia, on the south coast of the Gulf of Finland, and borders Lääne-Viru County to the east, Järva County to the south-east, Rapla County to the south, and Lääne County to the south-west.528,468 people...

, Estonia

Estonia

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. It is part of Tallinn

Tallinn

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 metropolitan area

Metropolitan area

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. The town covers an area of 22.76 km² and has a population of 16,529 (as of 1 January 2010).

The Port of Muuga

Port of Muuga

The Port of Muuga is the largest cargo port in Estonia, located on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, 13 km northeast of the capital Tallinn, in Maardu. It is one of the few ice-free ports in northernmost Europe....

, the largest cargo port in Estonia, is partly located in Maardu.

According to the 2000 Census, the population was 16,738. 61.7% were Russians

Russians

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, 19.9% Estonians

Estonians

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, 6.6% Ukrainians

Ukrainians

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, 5.7% Belarusians

Belarusians

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, 1.5% Tatars

Tatars

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, 0.9% Finns, 0.6% Poles

Poles

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, 0.5% Lithuanians

Lithuanians

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, 0.2% Latvians

Latvians

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, 0.2% Germans

Germans

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 and 0.1% Jews

Jews

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. The proportion of Estonians was one of the lowest (if not the lowest) in Central and Western Estonia.

Maardu may be divided into four parts:

• Kallavere (the centre of the city where most of the public institutions are located)
• Muuga aedlinn
  Muuga aedlinn
  Muuga aedlinn is a residential area in the western part of the town of Maardu, Estonia. It's located just east of Tallinn's Pirita district....
  
   (former garden city, now a light residential suburb more connected to Tallinn
  Tallinn
  Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies an area of with a population of 414,940. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki, east of Stockholm and west of Saint Petersburg. Tallinn's Old Town is in the list...
  
   than Kallavere)
• Kärmu (industrial area)
• Kroodi (industrial area)

External links

• Map of Maardu