3345 km²

Braided tributary rivers - struugas - on the lower course of the Narva river
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Located in North-East Estonia, large area of wetlands and forests

The biggest wetland in Estonia - the Puhatu mire system

Topography: glacio-lacustrine plains and large mires, dunes

Internationally important Ramsar area

Iisaku - Illaku esker system

Kurtna kame field with numerous lakes

Kuremäe hill and nunnery

A low belt of dunes and old dunes (kriiva) on the north coast of Lake Peipsi

The biggest river by the volume discharged - the braided Narva river

Poruni virgin forest

Deciduous forests on bog islands and river valleys

Dune oak forests and dune communities

Open-cast mines of oil-shale, leveled gangue hills

Two power stations with ash lakes

Oru peat fields

Communities of Russian Orthodox Old Believers migrated in the 17.-18. cc.

Imprints of the mixed Estonian-Russian culture

Settlement concentrated to the north part: Narva, Kohtla-Järve

The biggest city Mustvee in the southern part

Recreation areas on the north coast of Lake Peipsi and around Kurtna

Protected areas occupy 16.4% of the region, mires belong to the list of Ramsar areas: Puhatu, Muraka, Endla landscape protection areas