Everything you need to know about Estonia
Explore Estonia from Tallinnโs medieval streets and the islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa to Tartu, eastern border towns and the bogs of the southern interior. Place sixteen cities and towns, discover sixteen sights, read ten illustrated topics and begin Estonian.
Read it, then make it stick
Islands, lowlands and an eastern lake border
Estonia lies on the eastern side of the Baltic Sea. The Gulf of Finland separates its northern coast from Finland, and the Gulf of Riga opens to the southwest. Latvia is its southern land neighbour and Russia lies to the east. Lake Peipus, called Peipsi in Estonian, forms part of that eastern border. Tallinn stands on the northern coast; Tartu lies inland on the Emajรตgi.
Know the shape of the country
Place sixteen cities and towns across the mainland and the two largest islands. Northern and southern learning groups are not county or municipal boundaries. Pins use curated settlement centres; the country outline uses generalised Natural Earth geometry.
Places worth visiting
Essential ยท Historic centre
Tallinn old town
The UNESCO-listed historic centre preserves a Hanseatic trading city, its walls and civic buildings.
Explore sixteen heritage and landscape sights across Estoniaโs mainland and western islands. Essential and Worth a detour are learning priorities. Landscape pins identify representative places rather than entrances or trailheads. Check local opening and seasonal access. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Estonian with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Keep going one country deeper
When you have had your fill of Estonia, the countries marked guide have a page like this one, and every other has maps of its own.
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