Estonia
Tallinn · Northern Europe
Estonia is a country in Europe. Its capital city is Tallinn, the official currency is the Euro, and the main language is Estonian.
With a population of roughly 1.3 million people spread over 45,227 km², Estonia is the 155th most populous country in the world and the 129th largest by area. That works out at about 29 people per square kilometre.
Estonia shares land borders with Latvia and Russia — 2 neighbours in all. Its largest urban centres are Tallinn, Tartu and Narva. The highest point in the country is Suur Munamägi, at 318 metres.
For scale, it covers almost exactly the same area as Denmark, while its population is closest to that of Mauritius.
- Capital
- Tallinn
- Region
- Northern Europe
- Population
- 1,300,000
- Area
- 45,227 km²
- Currency
- Euro
- Main language
- Estonian
- Highest point
- Suur Munamägi
318 m - Land borders
- 2
Estonia: things worth knowing
- Estonia was the first country to hold legally binding general elections over the internet, in 2005.
- More than half the country is covered by forest, and it has over 2,000 islands in the Baltic Sea.
- Estonian is closely related to Finnish and unrelated to the Indo-European languages spoken by most of its neighbours.
Estonia in context
Europe has 44 sovereign countries in total. Estonia ranks 35th among them by population.
See the full list of Europe countries, or browse all 195 countries.