Maardu - City of Estonia

Maardu is a town and a municipality in Harju County, Estonia. It is part of Tallinn metropolitan area.

Estimated population of Maardu as of 1 July 2005 was 16,490. According to the 2000 Census, the population was 16,738. 61.7% were Russians, 19.9% Estonians, 6.6% Ukrainians, 5.7% Belarusians, 1.5% Tatars, 0.9% Finns, 0.6% Poles, 0.5% Lithuanians, 0.2% Latvians, 0.2% Germans and 0.1% Jews. The proportion of Estonians was one of the lowest in Central and Western Estonia.