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An Estonian county narrows a round down to a quarter of the country, and the municipality is the tier that names a place. Until 2017 there were over two hundred of them, most of them tiny, and then the country merged them into 79, so any map or quiz drawn before that year is the wrong one to learn from.
The omavalitsused, Estonia's only local tier: 64 rural municipalities, called parishes (vald), and 15 towns (linn). Some towns sit inside a parish of the same name and are separate municipalities, so Tartu, Rakvere, Viljandi and Võru each appear twice, once as a City and once as a Parish. Tallinn is both a town and a county seat and is simply Tallinn.
The merger redrew the map around the old centres, and several of the new parishes took a regional name instead of a town's, such as Põhja-Sakala, Lääneranna or Mulgi. Saaremaa and Hiiumaa are each a single parish covering the whole island, with Muhu, Ruhnu and Kihnu left on their own.
The smallest municipalities are too small to tap at the scale of the whole country. The smallest of each cluster has its tap area widened beyond its shape, and zooming in does the rest.
The groups are the fifteen counties, so the game lets you drill them one at a time. Each county answers under the same name in Estonia Counties.
Saaremaa Parish covers the whole of the country's largest island and is the largest municipality on the map. Nothing else is that big, which makes it an easy one to find.
Ruhnu is a flat island in the middle of the Gulf of Riga, closer to Latvia than to the Estonian mainland. It is one of the smallest shapes on the map and the one that most needs a tap area.
Narva is the third largest city and sits on the river of the same name, facing the Russian town of Ivangorod across it. It is a municipality of its own, squeezed between the border and Narva-Jõesuu on the coast.
79: 15 towns and 64 parishes. The number has been stable since the administrative reform of 2017, which merged over two hundred into the current set.
Both are municipalities with the same powers. A town (linn) is an urban one and a parish (vald) a rural one, and on the map each answers under its own name.
A few towns are separate municipalities from the rural parish around them, so Tartu City and Tartu Parish are two answers. The map draws the parish around the town.
The tier above this one is Estonia Counties. For another small country at this level, see Slovenia Municipalities.
