Tallinn: Central Office for Tourism in Estonia, 1934. — 16 p.

The Estonian Republic is situated on the east coast of the Baltic Sea. The frontiers of the country, which stretch from 57° 27' to 59° 42' north latitude and 21° 46' to 28° 21' eastern longitude, are bounded by the Gulf of Finland on the north, the Soviet Union and lake Peipsi on the east, the Latvian Republic on the south and the Baltic Sea with the Gulf of Riga on the west. The area of the country is 47,558.7 sq. km., including 818 islands with a total area of 4,167.15 sq. km. and 1512 lakes with an area of 2,328.37 sq. km. Thus the country’s size considerably exceeds that of Holland, Switzerland and Denmark. According to the census of 1934, the population of Estonia was 1,126,410 or 24.6 per sq. km. Of these 87.7% are Estonians, 8.2% Russians, 1,7% Germans, 2.5% belonging to other nationalities. The Russians mainly inhabit the rural communes along the Russian frontier, while the Germans are mainly urban. Some of the islands and peninsulae along the west coast are inhabited by Swedes.