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Maria-Elisabeth Mihhin
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Location Neighbour countries About Estonia Symbols of Estonia Religions The capital – Tallinn Tartu – “City of good thoughts”
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Neighbour countries of Estonia are: Finland Sweden Russia Latvia
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The territory of Estonia covers 45,227 km 2 President of Estonia is Toomas Hendrik Ilves Population 1,286,540 National currency is euro
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Anthem “ Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm” (My Fatherland, my Happiness and Joy) Estonian flag Coat of arms
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Lutherans - 152,000 Orthodox christians -143,000 Roman catholics -5,000 Jehovah´s Witnesses - 4,268 Adherents of Taaraism -1,000 Jewish - 1,900 Around 68,000 people consider themselves atheists (75,7%).
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Tallinn is the largest city of Estonia It occupies an area of 159.2 km 2 population of 425,249
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Tallinn is the oldest capital city in Northern Europe. It has buildings from the Middle Ages, which attract lots of tourists nowadays.
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Toompea castle St. Olaf’s Church Tall Hermann
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Tartu is the second largest city of Estonia It is home to Estonia's oldest and most renowned university Population 104,109
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Tartu University Town Hall Kissing Students
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1. Invented Skype (August 2003) Skype was written by Estonian developers Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn, Danish Janus Friis, and Swedish Niklas Zennström. 2. Won 1st place in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2001. Tanel Padar and Dave Benton, along with 2XL, sang "Everybody" and received 198 points.
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This is one of the largest amateur choral events in the world. The tradition of the song festival was born along with Estonian national awakening. The first national song festival was held in Tartu in the summer of 1869. It is held every five years in July on the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds
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