Murielle and Peggy Estonia country profile

Physical Geography
1. Official Name of Country: Republic of Estonia
2. Climate: maritime; wet, moderate winters, cool summers
1. Absolute Location :59 00 N ; 26 00 E
2. Relative location : Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic sea and Gulf of Finland, between Latvia and Russia
Political Geography
1. Type of government: parliamentary republic
2. Capital: Tallinn
3. International Organization participation:
Australia Group, BA, BIS, CBSS, CE, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, EU, FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NATO, NIB, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD (accession state), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, Schengen Convention, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNITAR, UNTSO, UPU, WCO, WEU (associate partner), WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
4. Size of armed forces:
Cultural Geography
1. language: Estonian (official language) 67.3% Russian 29.7% other 2.3% Un known 0.7%
2. Population: 1,229,371
3. Population growth rate: -0.632 %
4. Major cities: Tallinn(capital) Tartu, Narva
5. Infant mortality rate: 7.32 deaths/1,000 live births
6. average life expectancy: 72.83 years
7. religion: Evangelical Lutheran 13.6, orthodox 12.8, other Christian 1.4, unaffiliated 34.1, other anad unspecified 32, none 6.1
Economic Geography
1. GNP (Gross National Product): 27.41 billion
2. Natural resources: natural gas, oil shale, limestone, granite, phosphorite, pitchblende
3. Major agricultural and industrial products: potatoes, vegetable, livestock and dairy products, fish, electronics, wood product, textiles
4. Major exports and imports: machinery and equipments, wood and paper, textiles, food products, chemical products, mineral fuels
5. Currency (include exchange rate vs. TWD)
Estonian Kroon(EEK) change into Taiwanese dollar(TWD)
1.00 EEK
=
3.05483 TWD
6. Historical events (Timeline format from 1980 to present; give your teacher 10 major events)
1988 - Popular Front campaigns for democracy. "Singing revolution" brings a third of the population together in a bid for national unity and self-determination.
Independence
1991 - Communist rule collapses. Soviet government recognizes the independence of the Baltic republics.
1994 - Russian troops leave. Estonia joins Partnership for Peace, allowing limited military cooperation with Nato.
1997 - Estonia invited to begin European Union membership negotiations.
2000 - Estonia and Russia expel diplomats in tit-for-tat moves over spying claims.
2001 December - President Ruutel signs into law a bill scrapping the requirement for candidates for public office to be proficient in the Estonian language.
2002 November - Nato summit in Prague includes Estonia on list of countries formally invited to join the alliance.
Nato, EU membership
2002 December - EU summit in Copenhagen formally invites Estonia to join.
2003 September - Estonians vote overwhelmingly to join the European Union in a referendum.
2004 March - Estonia admitted to Nato.
2004 May - Estonia is one of 10 new states to join the EU.
2007 March - Estonia becomes the first country to allow internet voting for national parliamentary elections. The prime minister's Reform Party wins by a narrow margin

resource:
Cia world fact book

wikipedia ( http://www.wikipedia.org/)

BBC news history timeline (http://www.bbc.com/)