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| Eesti Vabariik Republic of Estonia | |||||
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| Anthem: Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm | |||||
 Location of Estonia (orange) – on the European continent (camel & white) | |||||
| Capital (and largest city) |  Tallinn | ||||
| Official languages | Estonian | ||||
| Government | Parliamentary democracy | ||||
| - President | Toomas Hendrik Ilves | ||||
| - Prime Minister | Andrus Ansip | ||||
| Independence | from Russia and Germany | ||||
| - Declared | 24 February 1918 | ||||
| - Recognised | 2 February 1920 | ||||
| - Occupied by USSR | 16 June 1940 | ||||
| - Re-declared | 20 August 1991 | ||||
| Accession to EU | May 1, 2004 | ||||
| Area | |||||
| - Total | 45,226 km² (132nd) 17,413 sq mi | ||||
| - Water (%) | 4.56% | ||||
| Population | |||||
| - 2006 estimate | 1,324,333 (151st) | ||||
| - Density | 29 /km² (173rd) 75 /sq mi | ||||
| GDP (PPP) | 2006 estimate | ||||
| - Total | $23.93 billion (106th) | ||||
| - Per capita | $17,802 (39th) | ||||
| HDI (2004) |  0.858 (high) (40th) | ||||
| Currency | Estonian kroon (EEK) | ||||
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | ||||
| - Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | ||||
| Internet TLD | .ee1 | ||||
| Calling code | +372 | ||||
| 1 Also .eu, shared with other European Union member states. | |||||
Estonia (older English spelling Esthonia), officially the Republic of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti or Eesti Vabariik), is a country in Northern Europe. Estonia has land borders to the south with Latvia and to the east with Russia. It is separated from Finland in the north by the Gulf of Finland and from Sweden in the west by the Baltic Sea.
Estonia has been a member of the European Union since 1 May 2004, and of NATO since 29 March 2004. Estonian, along with Basque, Finnish, Hungarian and Maltese, is one of the few official languages of the European Union that is not of Indo-European origin.