Saaremaa Municipality, also known as Saaremaa Rural Municipality (Estonian: Saaremaa vald), is a municipality in Saare County in western Estonia. It is the largest municipality in Estonia by land area. The administrative centre of the municipality is its only town Kuressaare.

It is one of three parishes comprising the county, along with Muhu and Ruhnu Parish. It was formed following the 2017 Estonian municipal reform on 21 October 2017 on the basis of all twelve former Saaremaa municipalities: Kuressaare town and Kihelkonna, Laimjala, Leisi, Lääne-Saare, Mustjala, Orissaare, Pihtla, Pöide, Salme, Torgu and Valjala parishes.[1][2]

Gallery

  • Timeline of Saaremaa municipalities
  • 1992–1999
    1992–1999
  • 1999–2014
    1999–2014
  • 2014–2017
    2014–2017
  • 2017–...
    2017–...

Religion

Religion in Saaremaa (2021) [1]

  Unaffiliated (78.3%)
  Lutheran (14.2%)
  Orthodox (2.6%)
  Baptism (1.1%)
  Others Christian (1.9%)
  Others Religions or Unknown (1.6%)

References

  1. ^ "Ülevaade KOVid 14.07.2017" (PDF). Estonian Ministry of Finance. 14 July 2017. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Number of officials in Saaremaa not reduced by administrative reform". ERR. 8 November 2017. Retrieved 26 January 2019.