# Ahtme

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{{Short description|District of Kohtla-Järve, Estonia}}
{{Expand Estonian|topic=geo|date=June 2022}}
{{More citations needed|date=November 2025}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name                     = Ahtme
| settlement_type          = District of Kohtla-Järve
| image_skyline            = Tammiku-Ahtme2009.JPG
| image_caption            = Tammiku district
| image_map                = Kohtla-Jarve_linnaosad.png
| map_caption              = Ahtme (marked '''2''') and other districts of Kohtla-Järve
| subdivision_type         = Country
| subdivision_name         = {{flag|Estonia}}
| subdivision_type1        = [County](/source/Counties_of_Estonia)
| subdivision_name1        = 24px [Ida-Viru County](/source/Ida-Viru_County)
| subdivision_type2        = City
| subdivision_name2        = 24px  [Kohtla-Järve](/source/Kohtla-J%C3%A4rve)
| area_total_km2           = 
| population_as_of         = 31 Dec 2011
| population_total         = 17,252
| population_density_km2   = auto
}}

'''Ahtme''' is a settlement in [Ida-Viru County](/source/Ida-Viru_County), [Estonia](/source/Estonia) with a population of around 18,000. It is administered as the second major district of the town of [Kohtla-Järve](/source/Kohtla-J%C3%A4rve), despite being separate from the central district of Järve and geographically closer to the independent town of [Jõhvi](/source/J%C3%B5hvi), located directly to the north. Ahtme was an independent town from 1953 to 1960.{{cn|date=November 2025}} The economy is centered on the [oil shale industry](/source/Oil_shale_in_Estonia).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sultson |first1=Siim |title=Formation Mechanisms of Stalinist Oil-Shale Mining and Industrial Towns in East Estonia: Soviet Nuclear Needs and Local Ambitions |journal=Journal of Urban History |date=May 2021 |volume=47 |issue=3 |pages=584–605 |doi=10.1177/0096144219888506 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0096144219888506 |access-date=26 November 2025|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

Ahtme is divided into neighborhoods. One neighborhood is Tammiku.

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{{Geographic location
|Centre    = Ahtme
|North     = [Jõhvi](/source/J%C3%B5hvi)
|Northeast = [Pargitaguse](/source/Pargitaguse) ([Jõhvi Parish](/source/J%C3%B5hvi_Parish))
|East      = [Kose](/source/Kose%2C_Ida-Viru_County) ([Jõhvi Parish](/source/J%C3%B5hvi_Parish))
|Southeast = [Rausvere](/source/Rausvere) ([Illuka Parish](/source/Illuka_Parish))
|South     = [Puru](/source/Puru%2C_Estonia) ([Jõhvi Parish](/source/J%C3%B5hvi_Parish))
|Southwest = [Puru](/source/Puru%2C_Estonia) ([Jõhvi Parish](/source/J%C3%B5hvi_Parish)),<br>[Pajualuse](/source/Pajualuse) ([Jõhvi Parish](/source/J%C3%B5hvi_Parish))
|West      = [Tammiku](/source/Tammiku%2C_J%C3%B5hvi_Parish) (small borough, [Jõhvi Parish](/source/J%C3%B5hvi_Parish)),<br>[Puru](/source/Puru%2C_Estonia) ([Jõhvi Parish](/source/J%C3%B5hvi_Parish))
|Northwest = [Pauliku](/source/Pauliku) ([Jõhvi Parish](/source/J%C3%B5hvi_Parish))
}}

{{Kohtla-Järve districts}}

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