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Estonia

Standards

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:

Latvia 343 km Russia 290 km

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.

CIA's World Factbook on Estonia

Wikipedia page on Estonia

Search for Estonia on Google