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Kiviõli

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Kiviõli ( ; ) is an industrial town in Ida-Viru County, Estonia, established in 1922. The main industry in the town is oil shale mining, which gives the town its name.

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Kiviõli
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Town
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Location in Estonia
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County
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Founded
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1922
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11.75
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4792
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2024
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23rd
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Wikidata facts

Official name
Kiviõli
Country
Estonia
Population
4792
Area
11.81
Image
View of Kiviõli.jpg
Licence plate code
I
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postal code
43199
Commons category
Kiviõli
inception
1922-00-00
topic's main category
Category:Kiviõli
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Kiviõli ( ; ) is an industrial town in Ida-Viru County, Estonia, established in 1922. The main industry in the town is oil shale mining, which gives the town its name.

==History== In 1922, the joint-stock company Eesti Kiviõli () established an oil shale quarry in land belonging to the village of Salaküla, and mining commenced in 1930. A worker's settlement belonging to the village of Varinurme was built in the 1930s and named Kiviõli after the joint-stock company. Kiviõli became a town in 1946.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kiviõli” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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