Tallinn (est)

Tallinn

Tallinn ranks 88th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Stuttgart, Marseille, and Japan. Memorable people born in Tallinn include Alfred Rosenberg, Lennart Meri, and Wolfgang Köhler. Memorable people who died in Tallinn include Edgar de Wahl, Arnold Rüütel, and Lennart Meri. Tallinn has been the birth place of many politicians, and soccer players and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Tallinn is located in Estonia.

Tallinn is the capital and most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of 456,518 as of 2025 and administratively lies in Harju County. Tallinn is the main governmental, financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located 187 km (116 mi) northwest of the country's second largest city, Tartu, however, only 80 km (50 mi) south of Helsinki, Finland; it is also 320 km (200 mi) west of Saint Petersburg, Russia, 300 km (190 mi) north of Riga, Latvia, and 380 km (240 mi) east of Stockholm, Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century, Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical name Reval. Read more on Wikipedia