'''Estonia''' officially the Republic of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti Vabariik), is a country on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea in Northern [[Europe]]. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland with [[Country:Finland|Finland]] on the other side, to the west by the Baltic Sea with [[Country:Sweden|Sweden]] on the other side, to the south by [[Latvia]] (343 km), and to the east by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peipus Lake Peipus] and [[Russia]] (338.6 km). The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland and of 2,222 islands in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Sea Baltic Sea], covering a total area of 45,227 km2 (17,462 sq mi), water 2,839 km2 (1,096 sq mi), land area 42,388 km2 (16,366 sq mi), and is influenced by a humid continental climate. The official language of the country, Estonian, is the second-most-spoken Finnic language. The sovereign state of Estonia is a democratic unitary parliamentary republic divided into fifteen counties. Its capital and largest city is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallinn Tallinn]. With a population of 1.3 million Estonia is one of the least populous members of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union European Union].