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.
- »Estonia was the first country to hold legally binding internet voting in a general election.
- »Around half the country is forest.
Its territory comes in pieces: one mainland carrying 91% of the area, plus two further landmasses large enough to show up at map scale.
Estonia touches two neighbours: Latvia to the south and Russia to the northeast. Directions run from one centre to the other.
Tallinn has one of the best-preserved medieval city walls in northern Europe, and was a major Hanseatic trading port.
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).
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.