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Estonia

Guide to Estonia ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

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Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, 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, and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of a mainland and 2,222 islands in the Baltic Sea, covering 45,339 km² (17,505 sq mi) of land and water.

Ethnic Estonians are a Finnic people, sharing close cultural ties with their northern neighbor, Finland, and the official language, Estonian, is a Finno-Ugric language closely related to Finnish and the Sami languages, and distantly to Hungarian.

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County Capital Harju Tallinn Hiiu Kärdla Ida-Viru Jõhvi Jõgeva Jõgeva Järva Paide Lääne Haapsalu] Lääne-Viru Rakvere Põlva (see Võru parishes Kanepi, Põlva, and Räpina Põlva

County Capital Pärnu Pärnu Rapla Rapla Saare Kuressaare Tartu Tartu Valga Valga Viljandi Viljandi Võru Võru