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[ e sti], officially the republic of estonia (estonian: eesti vabariik), is a state in the baltic region of northern europe. It is bordered to the north by the gulf of. Finland, to the west by the baltic sea, to the south by latvia (343 km), and to the east by lake peipus and russia (338. 6 km). Sweden in the west and finland in the north. 45,227 km2 (17,462 sq mi), and is influenced by a humid continental climate. Estonians are a finnic people, and the official language, estonian, is a finno- Ugric language closely related to finnish, and distantly to hungarian and to the. Estonia is a democratic parliamentary republic divided into fifteen counties, with its capital and largest city being tallinn. Estonia"s population of 1. 3 million makes it one of the least-populous member states of the european union, eurozone and the north atlantic treaty organization.
