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 Populated places in Estonia are cities or settlement units [a] of rural municipalities, but only cities have administrative functions. Settlement units are divided into settlements [b] and urban regions [c] (subdivisions of cities).
Officially there are four types of settlement unit in Estonia: [1]
As of 2024, there were 47 cities, 13 towns, 186 hamlets and 4457 villages in Estonia. [2]