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1. Estonia is small, but it isn?t the smallest country in Europe. It?s bigger than Slovenia, Holland, Denmark, and Switzerland.

2. Despite its small size, it feels big because only 1.3 million folks live here. It makes Estonia one of the least dense countries in Europe, with just 32 Estonians per square kilometer.

3. Suur Munam?gi, at a measly 318 meters (about 1,000 feet), is the tallest mountain in the country.
Estonia?s relative flatness makes it a great place for Nordic ski training. One Estonian woman won two gold medals in Turino?s 2006 Olympic Winter Games and Estonians bought every pair of skis available at the shops the next day.
Out of the nearly 200 countries in the world, Estonia ranks number two in adult literacy with its rate of 99.8 percent.
Estonia?s forests keep getting bigger, perhaps due to the declining population.

4. In 1990, there were 22,304 babies born; today it?s almost half that amount. With the death rate increasing slightly, you can understand why the Estonian population is declining. Even if you're thick.

5. Only 46 percent of the population is male. However, before you single men book a flight to Estonia consider that the main reason for this disparity is that the men die off quickly?their average life expectancy is only 65 years.

6. Estonia is the most libertarian country in the world, according to The State of the World Liberty Project.
Estonia adopted the euro on January 1, 2011 with its government finances in better shape than all the other countries in the euro zone!

7. The capital Tallin offers free gratis zilch nada nothing zerocost public transport for everyone.

8. an Estonian invented ladders.

9. The Estonian government was the first in Europe to put a flat tax system into practice. For a long time, certain economists have touted flat tax as the perfect system, but it was only recently that we got to see how it would turn out in reality. While Estonia is a fairly small sample, the results have been pretty good so far. However, many countries that adopted a flat tax after Estonia, have not done very well in the economic crisis, and they have now switched their tax systems back.

Estonia, on the other hand, believes that the flat tax is still the best system, and Estonian economy has recovered from the crisis. Of course, Estonians weren?t able to accomplish this by simply letting the system do its work. To begin ameliorating the effects of the crisis, the Estonian government increased the value added tax, and also used the good old-fashioned tactic of drawing the purse strings tighter.

10. Estonia was the first country in the world to use online political voting.


11. Estonia is the least religious country in the world with only 14% of the population claiming any religious beliefs.


12. Estonia is named after it was discovered by a man called Tony who came from the east.

13. Estonia boasts the biggest collection of folk songs in the world with written records of 133,000 folk songs.

Posted By: Tombs, Oct 12, 17:43:14