Estonia

Estonia

Estonia ranks 49th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Belarus, Colombia, and Saudi Arabia. Memorable people born in present day Estonia include Catherine I of Russia, Alfred Rosenberg, and Arvo Pärt. Memorable people who died in Estonia include Edgar de Wahl, Arnold Rüütel, and Karl Ernst von Baer. Estonia has been the birth place of many politicians, and athletes and the death place of many politicians, and writers.

Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland, the larger islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, and over 2,300 other islands and islets on the east coast of the Baltic Sea. Its capital Tallinn and Tartu are the two largest urban areas. The Estonian language, of the Finnic family, is the official language and the first language of the majority of its population of nearly 1.4 million. Estonia is one of the least populous members of the European Union and NATO. Read more on Wikipedia