Population: 1.300.000 aprox.

Large cities: Tallinn, Tartu, Narva

Language: Estonian and Russian

Memeber of EU: 2004

Monetary unit: Euro (formerlyKroon)

Evangelical Lutheran 14%

Russian Orthodox 13%

Christian (including Methodist, Seventh-Day Adventist, Roman Catholic, Pentecostal) 1%

Unaffiliated 34%

None 6%

Parlamentary Republic

Head of the state: Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Prime Minister: Andrus Ansip

Jaan Kross

Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald

Lennart Meri

The economy is driven by engineering, food products, metals, chemicals and wood products.

Finland, Sweden, Germany, Latvia, Russia, Lithuania, U.S., Gibraltar.

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