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Road Traffic:right side
Electricity:
Voltage:230V
Frequency:50
Hz
Plug types:F,
Note:Type
TV Systems:
System:PAL B (was SECAM) / PAL D
DVD-Region: 5
Geography
Bordering countries:
Location:
Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Finland, between Latvia and Russia
Area:
total: 45,226 sq km
land: 43,211 sq km
water: 2,015 sq km
Climate:
maritime, wet, moderate winters, cool summers
Terrain:
marshy, lowlands; flat in the north, hilly in the south
Economy
GDP:
$27.72 billion (2008 est.)
$28.73 billion (2007)
$27.02 billion (2006)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars
GDP growth rate:
-3% (2008 est.)
6.3% (2007 est.)
GDP per capita:
$21,200 (2008 est.)
$21,800 (2007 est.)
$20,400 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Inflation rate: 10.4% (2008 est.)
Currency: Estonian kroon (EEK)
Exchange rates:
krooni (EEK) per US dollar - 10.7 (2008), 11.535 (2007), 12.473 (2006), 12.584 (2005), 12.596 (2004)
note: the krooni is pegged to the euro
People
Population: 1,299,371 (July 2009 est.)
Growth rate: -0.632% (2009 est.)
Religions:
Evangelical Lutheran 13.6%, Orthodox 12.8%, other Christian (including Methodist, Seventh-Day Adventist, Roman Catholic, Pentecostal) 1.4%, unaffiliated 34.1%, other and unspecified 32%, none 6.1% (2000 census)
Languages:
Estonian (official) 67.3%, Russian 29.7%, other 2.3%, unknown 0.7% (2000 census)
Government
Capital:
name: Tallinn
time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October
Independence:
20 August 1991 (from the Soviet Union)
Note: Information on Estonia was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Estonia, please visit one of the links below.
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