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Estonia is a gem offering visitors the chance to see a tiny dynamic land on the shores of the sea. The northernmost and smallest of the Baltic states, Estonia has charming old towns and heritage back to the Hanseatic League. 's old town was…
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is the Estonia's capital and largest city. is an important port of the Baltic Sea, with the busy passenger section of the port reaching the foothill of the picturesque medieval Old Town, which has been astonishingly well preserved and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997.

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is the second largest city in Estonia with a population of around 98,000. A Hanseatic city and a university town, it's dating back to 1030, and as such it's the oldest city in the Baltics.

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is the largest Estonian island. It is on the west coast of Estonia. The capital in is , which is covered in a separate article.

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Explore places such as West Estonia and Islands and North Estonia.

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The West of Estonia and the islands are well known for its Baltic Sea resorts. Administratively, it is defined by the territory of the four counties: Pärnumaa, Lääne County, Hiiumaa and Saaremaa.

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Northern Estonia is a geographical region of Estonia, consisting of the three northernmost counties - , and .

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The South of Estonia is a diverse region with unique cultures, ski resorts and .

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or Ida-Viru county is in north-eastern Estonia, on the border with . This region includes the far east of Estonia between the shores of the Baltic Sea and Lake Peipsi.

Estonia

Latitude of center
58.722° or 58° 43′ 19″ north
Longitude of center
25.62° or 25° 37′ 12″ east
Population
1,310,000
Area
45,226 km² (17,462 miles²)
Elevation
99 metres (325 feet)
Capital
Currency
Euro (EUR)
Phone code
.ee
Internet domain
372
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
453733
Wiki­data ID
Q191
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Estonia” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Естониа”
  • Achinese: “Èstonia”
  • Adyghe: “Эстоние”
  • Afrikaans: “Estland”
  • Afrikaans: “Republiek van Estland”
  • Akan: “Ɛstonia”
  • Albanian: “Estoni”
  • Albanian: “Estonia”
  • Amharic: “ኤስቶኒያ”
  • Amis: “Estonia”
  • Angika: “एस्टोनिया”
  • Arabic: “أستونيا”
  • Arabic: “إستونيا”
  • Arabic: “استونيا”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية إستونيا”
  • Aragonese: “Estonia”
  • Armenian: “Էստոնիա”
  • Arpitan: “Èstonia”
  • Arpitan: “Èstonie”
  • Assamese: “ইষ্টোনিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Estonia”
  • Atayal: “Estonia”
  • Avaric: “Эстония”
  • Awadhi: “एस्टोनिया”
  • Aymara: “Istuña”
  • Azerbaijani: “Estoniya”
  • Balinese: “Estonia”
  • Bambara: “Esetoni”
  • Bambara: “Estonia”
  • Bashkir: “Эстония”
  • Basque: “Estonia”
  • Batak Toba: “Estonia”
  • Bavarian: “Estland”
  • Belarusian: “Эстонія”
  • Belarusian: “Эстонская Рэспубліка”
  • Bengali: “এস্টোনিয়া গণরাজ্য”
  • Bengali: “এস্তোনিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Èstlan”
  • Bhojpuri: “इस्टोनिया”
  • Bishnupriya: “এস্তোনিয়া”
  • Bislama: “Estonia”
  • Bosnian: “Estonija”
  • Breton: “Estonia”
  • Bulgarian: “Естония”
  • Burmese: “အက်စတိုးနီးယား”
  • Burmese: “အက်စ်တိုးနီးယားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Cajun French: “Estonie”
  • Catalan: “Estònia”
  • Cebuano: “Estonia”
  • Cebuano: “Estoniya”
  • Central Bikol: “Estonya”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئیستۆنیا”
  • Chamorro: “Estonia”
  • Chavacano: “Estonia”
  • Chechen: “Эстони”
  • Cherokee: “ᎡᏍᏙᏂᏯ”
  • Cherokee: “ᎡᏍᏙᏂᏱ”
  • Chinese: “Àishāníyà”
  • Chinese: “Estonia”
  • Chinese: “愛沙尼亞”
  • Chinese: “爱沙尼亚”
  • Chinese: “爱沙尼亚共和国”
  • Church Slavic: “Єсть”
  • Chuvash: “Эстони”
  • Cornish: “Estoni”
  • Corsican: “Estonia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Estoniya”
  • Croatian: “Estonija”
  • Czech: “Estonská republika”
  • Czech: “Estonsko”
  • Dagbani: “Estonia”
  • Danish: “Eesti Vabariik”
  • Danish: “Eesti”
  • Danish: “Estland”
  • Danish: “Republikken Estland”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Estonya”
  • Dinka: “Estonia”
  • Dotyali: “इस्टोनिया”
  • Dutch: “Estland”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Estland”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨིསི་ཊོ་ནི་ཡ་”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨིསི་ཊོ་ནི་ཡ།”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨེས་ཊོ་ནི་ཡ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Эстоний”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “استونيا”
  • Erzya: “Эстэнь Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Estonio”
  • Esperanto: “Estonujo”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Estonio”
  • Estonian: “Eesti Nõukogude Sotsialistlik Vabariik” (historical)
  • Estonian: “Eesti Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Eesti”
  • Ewe: “Estonia nutome”
  • Ewe: “Estonia”
  • Extremaduran: “Estoña”
  • Extremaduran: “Estónia”
  • Faroese: “Estland”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Estonia”
  • Finnish: “Eesti”
  • Finnish: “Viro”
  • Finnish: “Viron tasavalta”
  • French: “Esthonie”
  • French: “Estonie”
  • French: “la République d’Estonie”
  • French: “République d’Estonie”
  • Friulian: “Estonie”
  • Fulah: “Estoni”
  • Fulah: “Estoniya”
  • Gagauz: “Estoniya”
  • Galician: “Estonia”
  • Ganda: “Esitoniya”
  • Ganda: “Estonia”
  • Georgian: “ესტონეთი”
  • German: “Estland”
  • German: “Republik Estland”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Estonia”
  • Gilaki: “استؤني”
  • Goan Konkani: “Estonia”
  • Goan Konkani: “एस्टोनिया”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳”
  • Greek: “Εσθονία”
  • Guarani: “Estonia”
  • Guarani: “Etóña”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Estoni”
  • Gujarati: “ઈસ્ટોનિયા”
  • Gujarati: “એસ્ટોનિયા”
  • Haitian: “Estoni”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Estonia”
  • Hausa: “Estoniya”
  • Hausa: “Istoniya”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻEsetonia”
  • Hebrew: “אסטוניה”
  • Hindi: “एस्टोनिया गणराज्य”
  • Hindi: “एस्टोनिया”
  • Hungarian: “Észt Köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Észtország”
  • Iban: “Estonia”
  • Icelandic: “Eistland”
  • Ido: “Estonia”
  • Igbo: “Estonia”
  • Igbo: “Estoniya”
  • Iloko: “Estonia”
  • Inari Sami: “Eesti täsviäldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Eesti”
  • Inari Sami: “Eestieennâm täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Eestieennâm”
  • Indonesian: “Estonia”
  • Indonesian: “Republik Estonia”
  • Ingush: “Эстехье”
  • Ingush: “Эстиче”
  • Interlingua: “Estonia”
  • Interlingue: “Estonia”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐃᔅᑑᓂᐊ”
  • Irish: “an Eastóin”
  • Irish: “An Eastóin”
  • Italian: “Estonia”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Estuonia”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “hEstuonia”
  • Japanese: “エストニア”
  • Japanese: “エストニア共和国”
  • Japanese: “エストラント”
  • Javanese: “Èstlan”
  • Javanese: “Estonia”
  • Javanese: “Éstonia”
  • Kabardian: “Эстониэ”
  • Kabiyè: “Ɛsɩtoonii”
  • Kabyle: “Isṭuni”
  • Kabyle: “Isṭunya”
  • Kalaallisut: “Estlandi”
  • Kalmyk: “Эстдин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಎಸ್ಟೊನಿಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಎಸ್ಟೋನಿಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಎಸ್ತೊನಿಯ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Estoniya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Эстония”
  • Kashmiri: “ایسٹونِیا”
  • Kashubian: “Estoniô”
  • Kashubian: “Estóńskô”
  • Kazakh: “Эстония”
  • Khmer: “អេស្តូនី”
  • Kikuyu: “Estonia”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Esitoniya”
  • Kirghiz: “Эстония”
  • Kölsch: “Estland”
  • Komering: “Estonia”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Эстму”
  • Komi: “Эстония”
  • Kongo: “Estoni”
  • Kongo: “Estonia”
  • Korean: “에스토니아 공화국”
  • Korean: “에스토니아”
  • Kotava: “Eestia”
  • Kurdish: “Estonya”
  • Ladin: “Estonia”
  • Ladino: “Estonia”
  • Lao: “ສາທາລະນະລັດ ແອັດສະໂຕນີ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດແອັດສະໂຕນີ”
  • Lao: “ເອສໂຕເນຍ”
  • Latgalian: “Igauneja”
  • Latin: “Estonia”
  • Latvian: “Igaunija”
  • Lezghian: “Эстония”
  • Ligurian: “Estònia”
  • Limburgan: “Esland”
  • Lingala: “Esitoni”
  • Lingala: “Estonia”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Esti”
  • Literary Chinese: “愛沙尼亞”
  • Literary Chinese: “愛沙尼亞共和國”
  • Lithuanian: “Estija”
  • Liv: “Ēstimō”
  • Livvi: “Eesti”
  • Livvi: “Estounii”
  • Lojban: “estis”
  • Lojban: “gugrxesti”
  • Lombard: “Estonia”
  • Low German: “Eestland”
  • Low German: “Estlaand”
  • Low German: “Estland”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Estniska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Esitoni”
  • Lule Sami: “Estlánnda”
  • Luxembourgish: “Estland”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Estonia”
  • Macedonian: “Естонија”
  • Madurese: “Estonia”
  • Maithili: “इस्टोनिया”
  • Malagasy: “Estonia”
  • Malagasy: “Estônia”
  • Malay: “Estonia”
  • Malayalam: “എസ്റ്റോണിയ”
  • Malayalam: “എസ്റ്റോണിയ‍”
  • Maltese: “Estonja”
  • Maltese: “l-Estonja”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Estonja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯦꯁ꯭ꯇꯣꯅꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “yn Estaan”
  • Manx: “Yn Estaan”
  • Manx: “yn Esthoin”
  • Maori: “Etonia”
  • Marathi: “एस्टोनिया”
  • Mazanderani: “استونی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Estonia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Eesti”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Estonia”
  • Minangkabau: “Estonia”
  • Mingrelian: “ესტონეთი”
  • Mirandese: “Stónia”
  • Moksha: “Эсти мастор”
  • Mongolian: “Эстон”
  • Mongolian: “Эстони”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “إسطونيا”
  • N'Ko: “ߌߛߑߕߏߣߌ߫ ߞߊ߲ߓߍ߲”
  • N'Ko: “ߌߛߑߕߏߣߌ߫”
  • N'Ko: “ߌߛߕߑߟߊ߲ߘ”
  • Narom: “Estonnie”
  • Nauru: “Estonia”
  • Nauru: “Etoniya”
  • Navajo: “Hakázítah Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Estonia”
  • Nepali: “इस्टोनिया”
  • Nepali: “एस्टोनिया”
  • Newari: “इस्टोनिया”
  • Newari: “ईस्टोनिया”
  • North Ndebele: “Estonia”
  • Northern Frisian: “Eestlun”
  • Northern Frisian: “Estlönj”
  • Northern Luri: “استونی”
  • Northern Sami: “Estlánda”
  • Northern Sami: “Estlándda dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Estteeana”
  • Northern Sami: “Estteeanan”
  • Northern Sami: “Estteeatnama dásseváldi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Estland”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Estland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Estland”
  • Norwegian: “Estland”
  • Novial: “Estonia”
  • Nyanja: “Estonia”
  • Obolo: “Esitọnia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Estònia”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܣܛܘܢܝܐ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܣܬܘܢܝܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ēastland”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Estland”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ēstland”
  • Oriya: “ଏଷ୍ଟୋନିଆ”
  • Oriya: “ଏସ୍ତୋନିଆ”
  • Oromo: “Istooniyaa”
  • Ossetian: “Эстони”
  • Pali: “एस्टोनिया”
  • Pampanga: “Eesti”
  • Pampanga: “Estonia”
  • Pampanga: “Estonya”
  • Pangasinan: “Estoniya”
  • Panjabi: “ਇਸਟੋਨੀਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਇਸਤੋਨੀਆ”
  • Panjabi: “ਏਸਟੋਨੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Estonia”
  • Pedi: “Estonia”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Eschdooni”
  • Persian: “استونی”
  • Persian: “استونیا”
  • Picard: “Éstonie”
  • Piemontese: “Estònia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Estonya”
  • Polish: “ee”
  • Polish: “Eesti”
  • Polish: “Estonia”
  • Polish: “Republika Estonii”
  • Pontic: “Εσθονία”
  • Portuguese: “Eesti Vabariik”
  • Portuguese: “Eesti”
  • Portuguese: “Estonia”
  • Portuguese: “Estónia”
  • Portuguese: “Estônia”
  • Portuguese: “República da Estónia”
  • Portuguese: “República da Estônia”
  • Pushto: “استونیا”
  • Pushto: “اېستونيا”
  • Pushto: “اېسټونيا”
  • Quechua: “Estonia”
  • Quechua: “Istunya”
  • Romanian: “Eesti Vabariik”
  • Romanian: “Estonia”
  • Romanian: “Republica Estonia”
  • Romanian: “Естония”
  • Romansh: “Estonia”
  • Rundi: “Esitoniya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Эстон”
  • Russia Buriat: “Эстони”
  • Russian: “Республика Эстония”
  • Russian: “Эстония”
  • Russian: “Эстонская Республика”
  • Russian: “Ээсти”
  • Rusyn: “Естонія”
  • Sakizaya: “Estonia”
  • Samoan: “Esitonia”
  • Samogitian: “Estėjė”
  • Sango: “Estonïi”
  • Sanskrit: “एस्टोनिया”
  • Santali: “ᱮᱥᱛᱳᱱᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Estònia”
  • Sardinian: “Estonija”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Estlound”
  • Scots: “Estonia”
  • Scots: “Estonie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Eastoin”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Eastòinia”
  • Serbian: “Estonija”
  • Serbian: “Естонија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Estonija”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းဢႄႇသတူဝ်းၼီးယႃး”
  • Shona: “Estonia”
  • Sicilian: “Estonia”
  • Silesian: “Estůńijo”
  • Sindhi: “اسٽونيا”
  • Sindhi: “ايسٽونيا”
  • Sinhala: “එස්ටෝනියා”
  • Sinhala: “එස්ටෝනියාව”
  • Sinhala: “එස්තෝනියාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Eestijânnam tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Eestijânnam”
  • Slovak: “Estónska republika”
  • Slovak: “Estónsko”
  • Slovenian: “ee”
  • Slovenian: “Estonija”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Estonija”
  • Somali: “Estoniya”
  • Somali: “Estooniya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایستونی”
  • Southern Altai: “Эстония”
  • Southern Sami: “Estlaante”
  • Southern Sotho: “Estonia”
  • Spanish: “Estonia”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Estonia”
  • Spanish: “República de Estonia”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Estlenikondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵉⵙⵜⵓⵏⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Éstonia”
  • Swahili: “Estonia”
  • Swati: “Estonia”
  • Swati: “IWestoniya”
  • Swedish: “Estland”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Estland”
  • Swiss German: “Estland”
  • Tachelhit: “Iṣṭuniya”
  • Tachelhit: “Iṣṭunya”
  • Tagalog: “Estonia”
  • Tagalog: “Estonya”
  • Tahitian: “Etoni”
  • Tajik: “Эстония”
  • Talysh: “Estonijə”
  • Talysh: “Estoniyə”
  • Tamil: “எசுத்தோனியா”
  • Tamil: “எஸ்டோனியா”
  • Taroko: “Estonia”
  • Tatar: “Estonia”
  • Tatar: “Éstonia”
  • Tatar: “Эстония”
  • Telugu: “ఎస్టోనియా”
  • Tetum: “Estónia”
  • Thai: “ประเทศเอสโตเนีย”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐเอสโตเนีย”
  • Thai: “เอสโตเนีย”
  • Tibetan: “ཨིསྟོ་ནི་ཡ།”
  • Tibetan: “ཨིསུ་ཊོ་ནིཡ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ኤስቶኒያ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Estonia”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “‘Esitonia”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻEsitōnia”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Estland”
  • Tsonga: “Estonia”
  • Tumbuka: “Estonia”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “أستونيا”
  • Turkish: “ee”
  • Turkish: “Estonya Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Estonya”
  • Turkmen: “Estoniýa”
  • Twi: “Estonia”
  • Udmurt: “Эстония”
  • Uighur: “ئېستونىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Естонія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Estiska”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Estniska”
  • Urdu: “استونیا”
  • Urdu: “اسٹونیا”
  • Uzbek: “Estoniya”
  • Venda: “Estonia”
  • Venetian: “Estònia”
  • Veps: “Estinma”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Estonia”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Estonia”
  • Vietnamese: “E-xtô-ni-a (Estonia)”
  • Vietnamese: “E-xtô-ni-a”
  • Vietnamese: “Estonia”
  • Vlaams: “Estland”
  • Vlax Romani: “Estoniya”
  • Volapük: “Lestiyän”
  • Võro: “Eesti”
  • Walloon: “Estoneye”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Estonia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Estonya”
  • Welsh: “Estonia”
  • Western Armenian: “Էսթոնիա”
  • Western Balochi: “استونیا”
  • Western Frisian: “Estlân”
  • Western Mari: “Эстони”
  • Western Panjabi: “استونیا”
  • Western Panjabi: “اسٹونیا”
  • Wolof: “Estoni”
  • Wolof: “Estooni”
  • Wu Chinese: “愛沙尼亞”
  • Wu Chinese: “爱沙尼亚”
  • Xhosa: “Estoniya”
  • Yakut: “Эстония”
  • Yiddish: “עסטלאנד”
  • Yiddish: “עסטלאַנד”
  • Yoruba: “Esitonia”
  • Yoruba: “Estóníà”
  • Yue Chinese: “愛沙尼亞”
  • Yue Chinese: “愛莎尼亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Estland”
  • Zhuang: “Estonia”
  • Zulu: “i-Estonia”
  • Zulu: “I-Estoniya”
  • “EE”
  • “Eesti”
  • “EST”
  • “Estėjė”
  • “Estògna”
  • “Estonia”
  • “Estonie”
  • “ma Esi”
  • “इस्टोनिया”

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