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Estonians

Estonians
Lydia Koidula, Kristjan Palusalu, Konrad Mägi and Lennart Meri.
Ethnic group
GroupEstonians
Eestlased
Population datec. 1.1 million
Main regionEstonia: 922,398
Other significant population centers:
Finland29080
United States25000
Canada23930
Russia24000
Sweden23000
United Kingdom14000
Australia6300
Germany5000
Ukraine2868
Republic of Ireland2373
Latvia2336
Norway2092
Belgium2000

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Estonians ( ) are a Finnic people closely related to the Finns and inhabiting, primarily, the country of Estonia. They speak a Finnic language known as Estonian. Although Estonia is traditionally grouped as one of the Baltic countries, Estonians are linguistically unrelated to the Baltic peoples of Latvia and Lithuania.


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