Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti or Eesti Vabariik), is a country in Northeastern Europe. Estonia has land borders with its fellow Baltic countryLatvia (339 km) to the south and Russia (229 km) to the east. It is separated from Finland in the north by the narrow Gulf of Finland and from Sweden in the west by the middle part of the Baltic Sea. Its coastline is 3794 km long. Estonia has been a member state of the European Union since May 1, 2004.
Area:
total: 45,226 sq km
land: 43,211 sq km
water: 2,015 sq km
note: includes 1,520 islands in the Baltic Sea Climate:
maritime, wet, moderate winters, cool summers Terrain:
marshy, lowlands; flat in the north, hilly in the south Population:
1,341,664 Languages:
Estonian (official), Russian, Ukrainian, Finnish, other Capital:
Tallinn
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