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Background and figures as recorded in the CIA World Factbook.

After centuries of Danish, Swedish, German, and Russian rule, Estonia attained independence in 1918. Forcibly incorporated into the USSR in 1940 -- an action never recognized by the US and many other countries -- it regained its freedom in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Since the last Russian troops left in 1994, Estonia has been free to promote economic and political ties with the West. It joined both NATO and the EU in 2004, formally joined the OECD in 2010, and adopted the euro as its official currency in 2011.

Capital: Tallinn
Government: parliamentary republic
Population: 1,340,478
Area: 45,228 sq km
Location: Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Finland, between Latvia and Russia
Climate: maritime; wet, moderate winters, cool summers
Natural resources: oil shale; peat; rare earth elements; phosphorite; clay; limestone…
Languages: Estonian (official) 67.2%; Russian 28.5%; other 3.7%; unspecified 0.6% (2021est.)
Religions: Orthodox 16.5%; Protestant 9.2% (Lutheran 7.7%; other Protestant 1.5%); other 3% (includes Roman Catholic…
Independence: 24 February 1918 (from Soviet Russia); 20 August 1991 (declared from the Soviet Union);
Administrative divisions: 15 urban municipalities (linnad, singular - linn), 64 rural municipalities (vallad, singular - vald) urban municipalitie…
Currency: euros (EUR)
Export partners: Finland 14%; Latvia 10%; Lithuania 9%; Sweden 7%…
Import partners: Finland 11%; Germany 11%; China 10%; Lithuania 6%…

Source: CIA World Factbook — a work of the US government, in the public domain

Subdivisions

15 on file. Listed because operations, tax and reporting are usually organised at this level rather than nationally.

Name	Type	Code
Viljandi	County	EE-84
Pärnu	County	EE-67
Valga	County	EE-82
Võru	County	EE-86
Ida-Viru	County	EE-44
Põlva	County	EE-65
Tartu	County	EE-78
Jõgeva	County	EE-49
Lääne	County	EE-57
Harju	County	EE-37
Lääne-Viru	County	EE-59
Saare	Municipality	EE-74
Hiiu	County	EE-39
Rapla	County	EE-70
Järva	County	EE-51

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Currency: euros (EUR)
Languages: Estonian (official) 67.2%; Russian 28.5%; other 3.7%; unspecified 0.6% (2021est.)
Government: parliamentary republic
Climate: maritime; wet, moderate winters, cool summers

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