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Basic information and general descriptions about Estonia, as well as general country Web sites/portals.
Eesti Statistika (http://www.stat.ee)
Statistics Estonia. Statistics by subject area, as well as links to services, publications, censuses, metadata, and more. In English and Estonian.
Eesti Teadusinfosüsteem (https://www.etis.ee/index.aspx)
Estonian Research Portal. Information on projects, research activity, R&D policy, institutional framework for R&D, calendar, and more. Searchable. In Estonian, some English.
Estonia-Wide Web (http://www.ee)
Estonian Web sites by categories including business, public information, and news. Searchable. In Estonian and Russian, home page also in English.
Estonica (http://www.estonica.org/eng/yldiselt.html)
General information about Estonia, created by the Estonian Institute and Inspiral.net. Includes "Estonia in Brief," history, culture, and economy. Searchable.
Governments on the WWW: Estonia (http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/ee.html)
Links to national, regional, and municipal institutions; representations in foreign countries; political parties, and more.
Open Directory Project: Regional: Europe: Estonia (http://www.dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/Estonia/)
Links to a wide variety of Web sites culled from major search engines. The number of sites is listed next to each category.
United Kingdom. Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO). Country Profiles: Estonia (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-the-fco/country-profiles/europe/estonia)
Prepared by FCO desk officers, profile provides a general overview of Estonia and includes information on the country's recent history, recent political developments, relations with the international community, and bilateral political and commercial relations with the UK, travel advice, as well as links to other relevant pages on the FCO site.
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook: Estonia (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/en.html)
General information and statistics about Estonia, with the following subdivisions: introduction, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.
U.S. Department of State. Bureau of Public Affairs. Background Notes (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/)
Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty. Click on country link.
U.S. Library of Congress. Federal Research Division. Estonia: a country study (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/eetoc.html)
The Federal Research Division (FRD) of the Library of Congress published in 1995 an extensive handbook entitled Estonia: a country study. The text and selected graphics of the 304-page work are available in an electronic format on the FRD Web site. The researcher can search for words or variants of search words, within one country study or across multiple studies. The country study can be downloaded, on section at a time, and saved as an html or txt file. (No revised editions are planned at present.) Dated,, but still useful, especially the chapter on historical setting and the bibliography of English-language sources.
University College London. School of Slavonic and East European Studies Library. Internet Resources on Estonia (http://www.ssees.ac.uk/estonia.htm)
Directory of WWW resources on Estonia. Links to government sites, economic statistics, academic resources, news providers, and more.
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