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Estonia ( i / ɛ ˈ s t oʊ n i ə / ; Estonian : Eesti [ˈeːsti] ), officially the Republic of Estonia ( Estonian : Eesti Vabariik ) , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe . It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland , to the west by the Baltic Sea , to the south by Latvia (343 km), and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia (338.6 km). Across the Baltic Sea lies Sweden in the west and Finland in the north. The territory of Estonia consists of a mainland and 2,222 islands and islets i
Estonia is a democratic parliamentary republic divided into fifteen counties , with its capital and largest city being Tallinn . With a population of 1.3 million, it is one of the least-populous member states of the European Union , Eurozone , the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation , the OECD and the Schengen Area . Ethnic Estonians are Finnic people , and the official language, Estonian , is a Finno-Ugric language closely related to Finnish and the Sami languages , and distantly to Hungarian .
MS Estonia , previously Viking Sally (1980–1990), Silja Star (−1991), and Wasa King (−1993), was a cruise ferry built in 1979/80 at the German shipyard Meyer Werft in Papenburg . The ship sank in 1994 in the Baltic Sea in one of the worst maritime disasters of the 20th century. It is the deadliest European shipwreck disaster to have occurred in peacetime, costing 852 lives.