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Republic

Capital: Talinn

Surface area: 43 700 km2

Population: 1,3 millions

Population/km2: 30

Member of the EU since 2004

National day: 24 February

National anthem: Mu isamaa, mu onn ja room (My homeland, my pride and joy)

• Nearly 70% of the population lives in cities

• The Estonian flag was adopted in September 1881 by students from the University of Tartu

• The Estonians have never had their own king

• Beginning 1988, protest movements, in particular during song festivals, which gave it the name the "singing revolution", lead to independence in 1991

• Estonian is a Finno-Ugrian language with 32 letters, 14 declensions per word and a  three-level quantitative system: one, two or several

• Estonia was an independent state between 1918 and 1940 before regaining its independence in August 1991

• The Baltic Sea is the youngest sea on the planet and was formed by the melting of the snows in Scandinavia

• On the 23rd of August in 1989, 6 million people joined their hands to create a human chain from Tallinn to Riga and Vilnius to declare their idependence