Estonia

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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Essential Destinations

Top destinations: Tallinn and Tartu.

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is 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 96,000. A Hanseatic city and a university town, it dates 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.

Destinations to Discover

Places to explore: 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

  • Type: Country with 1,310,000 residents
  • Description: country in Northern Europe
  • Also known as: “Cộng hoà Estonia”, “Cộng hòa Estonia”, “ee”, “EE”, “Eesti täsviäldi”, “Eestieennâm täsiväldi”, “Eestijânnam tääʹssväʹldd”, “EST”, “Esthonie”, “Estijos Respublika”, “Estlándda dásseváldi”, “Estlönj”, “Estonská republika”, “Estónska republika”, “Estonya Cumhuriyeti”, “Estteeanan”, “Estteeatnama dásseváldi”, “Észt Köztársaság”, “la République d’Estonie”, “Repubblika tal-Estonja”, “Republic of Estonia”, “República d’Estònia”, “República da Estónia”, “República da Estônia”, “República de Estonia”, “Republica Estonia”, “Republiek Estland”, “Republiek van Estland”, “Republik Estland”, “Republik Estonia”, “Republika Estonii”, “Republika Estonija”, “Republiken Estland”, “Republikken Estland”, “République d’Estonie”, “Respubliko Estonio”, “Viron tasavalta”, “yn Esthoin”, “Республика Эстония”, “Эстонская Республика”, “Эстонская Рэспубліка”, “Ээсти”, “جمهورية إستونيا”, “ريڤوبليک ايستونيا”, “ߌߛߑߕߏߣߌ߫ ߞߊ߲ߓߍ߲”, “ߌߛߕߑߟߊ߲ߘ”, “ईस्टोनिया”, “एस्टोनिया गणराज्य”, “এস্টোনিয়া গণরাজ্য”, “สาธารณรัฐเอสโตเนีย”, “ສາທາລະນະລັດ ແອັດສະໂຕນີ”, “에스토니아 공화국”, “エストラント”, “愛沙尼亞共和國”, “愛莎尼亞”, and “爱沙尼亚共和国”
  • Historically known as: “Eesti Nõukogude Sotsialistlik Vabariik”, “Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic”, and “Estonskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika”
  • Languages: Estonian and Russian
  • Neighbors: , , and
  • Categories: sovereign state, unitary state, republic, country bordering the Baltic Sea, and locality
  • Location: ,
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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
372
Internet domain
.ee
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”
  • Akan: “Ɛstonia”
  • Albanian: “Estoni”
  • Albanian: “Estonia”
  • Amharic: “ኤስቶኒያ”
  • Amis: “Estonia”
  • Angika: “एस्टोनिया”
  • Arabic: “أستونيا”
  • Arabic: “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”
  • 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: “愛沙尼亞”
  • Chinese: “爱沙尼亚”
  • Church Slavic: “Єсть”
  • Chuvash: “Естони”
  • Chuvash: “Эстони”
  • Cornish: “Estoni”
  • Corsican: “Estonia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Estoniya”
  • Croatian: “Estonija”
  • Czech: “Estonsko”
  • Dagbani: “Estonia”
  • Danish: “Estland”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Estonya”
  • Dinka: “Estonia”
  • Dotyali: “इस्टोनिया”
  • Dutch: “Estland”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨིསི་ཊོ་ནི་ཡ་”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨིསི་ཊོ་ནི་ཡ།”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨེས་ཊོ་ནི་ཡ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Эстоний”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “استونيا”
  • Emilian: “Estògna”
  • Erzya: “Эстэнь Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Estonio”
  • Esperanto: “Estonujo”
  • 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: “Viro”
  • French: “Estonie”
  • Friulian: “Estonie”
  • Fulah: “Estoni”
  • Fulah: “Estoniya”
  • Gagauz: “Estoniya”
  • Galician: “Estonia”
  • Ganda: “Esitoniya”
  • Ganda: “Estonia”
  • Georgian: “ესტონეთი”
  • German: “Estland”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Estonia”
  • Gilaki: “استؤني”
  • Goan Konkani: “Estonia”
  • Goan Konkani: “एस्टोनिया”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳”
  • Greek: “Εσθονία”
  • 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”
  • Hungarian: “Észtország”
  • Iban: “Estonia”
  • Icelandic: “Eistland”
  • Ido: “Estonia”
  • Igbo: “Estonia”
  • Igbo: “Estoniya”
  • Iloko: “Estonia”
  • Inari Sami: “Eestieennâm”
  • Indonesian: “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”
  • Javanese: “Èstlan”
  • Javanese: “Estonia”
  • Javanese: “Éstonia”
  • Jèrriais: “Estonnie”
  • 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”
  • Kashmiri: “ایٚسٹونیا”
  • Kashubian: “Estoniô”
  • Kashubian: “Estóńskô”
  • Kazakh: “Эстония”
  • Khmer: “អេស្តូនី”
  • Kikuyu: “Estonia”
  • Kildin Sami: “Э̄сте̄ммьне”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Esitoniya”
  • Kirghiz: “Эстония”
  • Kölsch: “Estland”
  • Komering: “Estonia”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Эстму”
  • Komi: “Эстония”
  • Kongo: “Estoni”
  • Kongo: “Estonia”
  • Korean: “에스토니아”
  • Kotava: “Eestia”
  • Kurdish: “Estonya”
  • Ladin: “Estonia”
  • Ladino: “Estonia”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Malay: “ايستونيا”
  • Malayalam: “എസ്റ്റോണിയ‍”
  • Malayalam: “എസ്റ്റോണിയ”
  • Maltese: “Estonja”
  • Maltese: “l-Estonja”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯦꯁ꯭ꯇꯣꯅꯤꯌꯥ”
  • Manx: “yn Estaan”
  • Manx: “Yn Estaan”
  • Maori: “Etonia”
  • Marathi: “एस्टोनिया”
  • Mazanderani: “استونی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Estonia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Estonia”
  • Minangkabau: “Estonia”
  • Mingrelian: “ესტონეთი”
  • Mirandese: “Stónia”
  • Moksha: “Эсти мастор”
  • Mon: “အေတ်သတဝ်နဳယျာ”
  • Mongolian: “Эстон”
  • Mongolian: “Эстони”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “إسطونيا”
  • N'Ko: “ߌߛߑߕߏߣߌ߫”
  • Nauru: “Estonia”
  • Nauru: “Etoniya”
  • Navajo: “Hakázítah Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Estonia”
  • Neapolitan: “Estonie”
  • Nepali: “इस्टोनिया”
  • Nepali: “एस्टोनिया”
  • Newari: “इस्टोनिया”
  • North Ndebele: “Estonia”
  • Northern Frisian: “Eestlun”
  • Northern Luri: “استونی”
  • Northern Sami: “Estlánda”
  • Northern Sami: “Estteeana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Estland”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Estland”
  • Norwegian: “Estland”
  • Novial: “Estonia”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “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: “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: “Estonia”
  • Pontic: “Εσθονία”
  • Portuguese: “Estónia”
  • Portuguese: “Estônia”
  • Pushto: “استونیا”
  • Pushto: “اېستونيا”
  • Pushto: “اېسټونيا”
  • Quechua: “Estonia”
  • Quechua: “Istunya”
  • Romanian: “Estonia”
  • Romanian: “Естония”
  • Romansh: “Estonia”
  • Rundi: “Esitoniya”
  • Russia Buriat: “Эстон”
  • Russia Buriat: “Эстони”
  • Russian: “Эстония”
  • 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”
  • Slovak: “Estónsko”
  • Slovenian: “Estonija”
  • Somali: “Estoniya”
  • Somali: “Estooniya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایستونی”
  • Southern Altai: “Эстония”
  • Southern Sami: “Estlaante”
  • Southern Sotho: “Estonia”
  • Spanish: “Estonia”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Estlenikondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵉⵙⵜⵓⵏⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Éstonia”
  • Swahili: “Estonia”
  • Swati: “Estonia”
  • Swati: “IWestoniya”
  • Swedish: “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: “เอสโตเนีย”
  • Tibetan: “ཨིསྟོ་ནི་ཡ།”
  • Tibetan: “ཨིསུ་ཊོ་ནིཡ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ኤስቶኒያ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Estonia”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “‘Esitonia”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻEsitōnia”
  • Tsonga: “Estonia”
  • Tumbuka: “Estonia”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “أستونيا”
  • Turkish: “Estonya”
  • Turkmen: “Estoniýa”
  • Twi: “Estonia”
  • Udmurt: “Эстония”
  • Uighur: “ئېستونىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Естонія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Estiska”
  • Urdu: “استونیا”
  • Urdu: “اسٹونیا”
  • Uzbek: “Estoniya”
  • Venda: “Estonia”
  • Venetian: “Estònia”
  • Veps: “Estinma”
  • 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”
  • Zeeuws: “Estland”
  • Zhuang: “Estonia”
  • Zulu: “i-Estonia”
  • Zulu: “I-Estoniya”
  • “Estonia”
  • “Estonija”
  • “ma Esi”
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Worth a closer look: Lithuania and Latvia.

Explore These Curated Destinations

Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.