| Definitely not. With an area of 45 000 sq. km, Estonia is larger for example than Slovenia, Holland, Denmark or Switzerland; a little smaller, in other words, than New Hampshire and Massachusetts combined. Estonia stretches 350 km from east to west and 240 km from north to south. Sea islands form one tenth and lakes about one twentieth of Estonia's territory. |
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| Conversely, Estonia's population ranks amongst the smallest in the world: as of January 2002, an estimated 1 364 100 people live in Estonia - a density of only 30.2 people per sq. km. |
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| Estonians don't like to congregate, even in kindergartens. |
| Country: |
Mongolia |
Estonia |
The Netherlands |
Luxembourg |
Monaco |
| Area: |
1 565 000 sq km |
45 227 sq km |
41 532 sq km |
2 586 sq km |
1,96 sq km |
| People per sq km: |
1,7 |
31,9 |
380,6 |
165,9 |
164 865,1 |
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| Tallinn, with its medieval city centre, is Estonia's capital. Over a third of the nation (397 150 people) live in Tallinn and about 70% of the population reside in cities in general. The larger of these in descending order are: the university town of Tartu (101 190 inhabitants); the industrial border town of Narva (67 752); and the summer capital Pärnu (44 781) - the popular vacation destination on the southwestern coast, where summer air and water temperatures can reach those of the Mediterranean region. |
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| A little less than 70% of Estonians live in towns. |
The closest major city to Tallinn is the Finnish capital Helsinki, located at a distance of 85 km on the opposite shore of the Gulf of Finland. Riga is only one day's drive away (307 km). It's also a relatively short trip to St. Petersburg (395 km) and Stockholm (405 km).
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