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| | Estonia Counties |
 | | The first five characters of a county's NUTS code determine which group of counties it belongs to. |
 | | The largest ones are Saaremaa (Saare county), Hiiumaa (Hiiu county), Muhu, and Vormsi in the Baltic Sea, Ruhnu and Kihnu in the Gulf of Riga, Nais, Osmus, and Prangli in the Gulf of Finland, and Piiri in Lake Peipus. |
 | | All of the counties may be written with -maa suffixed to their names, especially Hiiumaa and Saaremaa, which are also island names. |
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