Estonia

Capital: Tallinn
Population: 1 439 197 (01.01.2000)
National holiday: 24 February (Independence Day)
National bird: chimney swallow
National flower: cornflower
Head of state: President of the Republic
Official language: Estonian
System of government: parliamentary republic
Area: 45 227 km²
Forests: 47.6% of the territory of the country
Lakes: 1450 lakes
Rivers: 700 rivers
Islands and islets: 1250 islands and islets
Coastline: 3794 km
Currency: Estonian kroon (EEK); 1 kroon = 100 cents;
EEK 15,6 = EUR 1
Population: Estonians 64.2%, Russians 28.7%,
Ukrainians 2.7%, Finns 1%,
other nationalities 1.9% (1995)
Religion: Main church - Estonian Evangelic Lutheran
Church, also Russian Orthodox, Estonian
Orthodox, and to a lesser extent Roman
Catholic Church are represented.
Distances from European cities, (distance from Tallinn by airplane km)
Helsinki 82
St. Petersburg 315
Stockholm 380
Berlin 1030