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Estonia 🇪🇪

Estonia is a country in Europe with a population of 1,326,590. Its capital is Tallinn. The official currency is EUR, and the main languages are Estonian.

Quick facts

  • Capital: Tallinn
  • Continent: Europe
  • Population: 1,326,590
  • Area: 45,228 km²
  • Density: 29.3 people per km²
  • Currency: EUR
  • Languages: Estonian
  • ISO code: EE

Where Estonia sits

Estonia 🇪🇪 is one of 46 countries in Europe, with its capital at Tallinn. It covers 45,228 square kilometres — 129th in the world — and is home to about 1,326,590 people, 155th globally.

The countries it shares a continent with include Russia, Germany, United Kingdom, France and Italy. If you are learning geography region by region — which works far better than alphabetically, because memory for places is spatial — those are the ones to learn alongside it.

How Estonia compares

Raw figures are hard to hold on their own, so it helps to anchor them. In population, Estonia sits closest to Timor-Leste and Mauritius. In land area, its nearest counterparts are Denmark and Netherlands.

At 29.3 people per square kilometre it is about 2.0 times below the world average of 59.4. It ranks higher by area than by population, so it is more spacious than its population alone suggests.

Estonian is listed as official in Estonia alone. The EUR is shared with 25 other countries, including Andorra, Austria and Belgium, and 22 others.

To see Estonia next to every other country, sort the country rankings by population, area or density; its currency and languages are listed alongside every other country's in world currencies and world languages.

How to remember Estonia

Estonia is the top of the E-L-L stack (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), and Tallinn looks north across the Gulf of Finland towards Helsinki. For the flag, think sky, earth and snow: blue, black, white.

The flag of Estonia: blue, black and white

🇪🇪 The flag is three horizontal stripes of blue, black and white. Blue stands for the sky, sea and lakes and for loyalty, black for the soil and the hard times of the past, and white for hope, birch trees, snow and bright summer nights.

Region and neighbours

Estonia is the northernmost of the three Baltic states in Northern Europe, on the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland. It shares land borders with 2 countries: Latvia and Russia.

Three facts about Estonia

  1. Estonia has more than 2,300 islands and islets, and the largest are Saaremaa and Hiiumaa.
  2. In 2005 Estonia became the first country in the world to hold nationwide binding elections with internet voting.
  3. The video-calling app Skype was written by developers based in Estonia.

Sources: Wikipedia: Estonia, Wikipedia: Flag of Estonia, Wikipedia: Tallinn, CIA World Factbook.

Quiz yourself on Estonia

Quizzes that include Estonia

Three angles are worth covering for any country — where it is, what its flag looks like, and what its capital is. For Estonia those are:

Doing all three for one continent before moving on is far more efficient than learning flags globally, then capitals globally, then the map.

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Frequently asked questions

What are the colours of the Estonia flag?

The flag of Estonia is three horizontal stripes of blue, black and white. Blue stands for the sky, sea and lakes and for loyalty, black for the soil and the hard times of the past, and white for hope, birch trees, snow and bright summer nights.

Which countries border Estonia?

Estonia shares land borders with Latvia and Russia.

How can I remember the capital of Estonia?

Estonia is the top of the E-L-L stack (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), and Tallinn looks north across the Gulf of Finland towards Helsinki. For the flag, think sky, earth and snow: blue, black, white.