Estonia

Estonia

Estonia ranks 47th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Iraq, Belarus, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Memorable people born in present day Estonia include Catherine I of Russia, Alfred Rosenberg, and Emil Lenz. Memorable people who died in Estonia include Karl Ernst von Baer, Lennart Meri, and Ferdinand von Wrangel. Estonia has been the birth place of many politicians and soccer players and the death place of many politicians and writers.

Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Europe. Located in Northern Europe, it has also been classified as Central or Eastern Europe in some contexts. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Lake Peipsi and 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 eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, covering a total area of 45,335 square kilometres (17,504 sq mi). Tallinn, the capital city, and Tartu are the two largest urban areas of the country. The Estonian language is the indigenous and official language of Estonia; it is the first language of the majority of its population, the world's second-most spoken Finnic language as well as the third-most spoken Uralic language. Read more on Wikipedia