Estonia
Estonia
ESTONIA - TRAVEL AND TOURISM
Estonia has joined the Schengen agreement, which means that you can enter on a European Union Schengen visa and there are no longer any ID/passport controls on the EU borders.
ESTONIA - COMMUNICATION
- Estonians are quite formal and may not come across as quite cold or even friendly to people from more informal cultures.
ESTONIA - CULTURE
Estonians (Estonian: eestlased, previously maarahvas) are a Finnic people closely related to the Finns and inhabiting, primarily, the country of Estonia.
ESTONIA - POLITICS
Estonia was one of the republics of the Soviet Union and was formally annexed as the Estonian SSR in August 1940.
ESTONIA - HISTORY
Estonia was first settled in 2,000 B.C. The name of Estonia occurs first in a form of Aestii in the first century A.D. by Tacitus.
ESTONIA - ECONOMY
Work – Estonia may have had rocket-like growth in recent years, but only from a very low base as a former Soviet republic. An average local monthly salary (4th quarter 2007) is around 800 EUR.
ESTONIA - BASIC FACTS
Area: 45,227 km²
Coastline: 3,794 km
Land Borders: 343 km with Latvia and 338.6 km with the Russian Federation
Distance from Tallinn to Helsinki: 85 km; to Riga: 307 km; to St.Petersburg: 395 km; to Stockholm: 405 km
Type: Parliamentary Democracy
Head of State: President Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Head of Government: Prime Minister Andrus ANSI
Administrative regions: 15 counties