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| | Estonia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | The Republic of Estonia is a small country in Northeastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea to thewest and the north (including the Gulf of Finland to the north), andsharing a land border with its fellow Baltic state Latvia to the south and with Russia to the east. |
 | | Estonia boasts over 1,400 lakes (most very small, with the largest, Lake Peipsi, being 3,555 km²), numerous bogs, and 3,794 kilometers of coastline marked by numerous bays,straits, and inlets. |
 | | Estonia completed most of its preparations for EU membership by the end of 2002 and now has one of the strongest economies of the new members states of the European Union, which Estonia joined on 1 May 2004. |
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