Estonia
Estonia (officially Republic of Estonia) is a country in Northern Europe, with its capital at Tallinn, and is home to roughly 1.4M people.
Estonian is the official language; the currency in circulation is Euro (€); people from here are called Estonian.
> INTEL_
> NOTABLE_
- »Estonia was the first country to hold legally binding internet voting in a general election.
- »Around half the country is forest.
> THE OUTLINE_
Its territory comes in pieces: one mainland carrying 91% of the area, plus two further landmasses large enough to show up at map scale.
> BORDERS_
Estonia touches two neighbours: Latvia to the south and Russia to the northeast. Directions run from one centre to the other.
> THE CAPITAL_
Tallinn has one of the best-preserved medieval city walls in northern Europe, and was a major Hanseatic trading port.
> SCALE_
45,337 km² (17,505 sq mi), 130th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Slovakia.
Population 1,372,341, 154th of 198 on file. That averages 30 per km² (78 per sq mi).
> THE FLAG_
Blue for the sky and lakes, black for the soil and for the past suffering of the people, white for snow and the pursuit of enlightenment. It began as a student fraternity flag in 1881.