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Capital: Tallinn

Population: 1,332,893 (July 2005 est.)

Languages: Estonian (official) 67.3%, Russian 29.7%, other 2.3%, unknown 0.7% (2000 census)

Religions:Evangelical Lutheran 13.6%, Orthodox 12.8%, other Christian (including Methodist, Seventh-Day Adventist, Roman Catholic, Pentecostal) 1.4%, unaffiliated 34.1%, other and unspecified 32%, none 6.1% (2000 census)

Currency: Estonian kroon (EEK)

Timezone: GMT+2

The Republic of Estonia is bordered to the north and the west by the Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Livonia, both of which are parts of the Baltic Sea. To the east, Estonia's border is Russia; to the south, Latvia. Across the sea, to the north, is Finland; the capital of which, Helsinki, is barely forty miles from Estonia's coastline. To the west of Estonia is Sweden.

Estonia is at the center of old-world Eastern Europe, an enticing prospect for expatriates for this reason alone. The country has the additional advantage of having, within the last fourteen years, emerged as an independent state. Like most other former Soviet-occupied states, it is on the brink of expansion and development.