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Kunda, Estonia

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Country
  
Estonia

Time zone
  
EET (UTC+2)

Area
  
9.85 km²

Local time
  
Sunday 2:24 AM

County
  
Lääne-Viru County

Website
  
www.kunda.ee

Population
  
3,996 (2005)


Weather
  
1°C, Wind SW at 10 km/h, 92% Humidity

Kunda is a town (founded May 1, 1938) in Estonia, located on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. There is a pulp mill (AS Estonian Cell), a cement factory and a port. Its population is ca. 4000.

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Map of Kunda, L%C3%A4%C3%A4ne-Viru County, Estonia

Evidence of some of the oldest prehistoric communities in Estonia, hunting and fishing communities that existed around 6500 BC, were found near Kunda. This settlement gave the name to the Kunda culture.

The Rutja Airfield facility 13 kilometres (8.1 miles) west of Kunda has served Soviet and Estonian defense interests.

Twin towns — Sister cities

Kunda is twinned with:

  • Gdynia, Poland

    • Notable residents

  • Argo Aadli (born 1980), theatre and film actor
  • Armin Öpik (1898–1983), paleontologist
  • Ernst Öpik (1893–1985), astronomer and astrophysicist
  • Jüri Parijõgi (1892–1941), writer and scholar
  • Knudåge Riisager (1897-1974), composer, son of expatriate Danish parents (his father running the cement factory), spent his first 3 years in Kunda.

    • References

    Kunda, Estonia Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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