Baltic states

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The Baltic states

Estonia Latvia Lithuania

Amálie Suchánková

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The Baltic states

• under Soviet rule from 1945 to 1991

• not rich in natural resources

• in EU and NATO since 2004

• currency: euro

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Estonia

• capital: Tallinn

• population: 1 328 976

• area: 45 227 km²

• official language: Estonian

• Russian minority

• Christians, but about 20% atheist

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Economy, agriculture, industry

• Baltic tiger

• IT sector

• agriculture: potatoes, barley, hay

• livestock farming: cattle and pigs

• industry: oil shale, minerals- clay, limestone

• forestry (timber, furniture, paper)

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Latvia

• capital: Riga

• population: 1 907 675

• area: 64 589 km²

• official language: Latvian

• Russian minority

• Christians, but about 20% atheists as well

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Economy, agriculture, industry

• market economy

• agriculture: rye, wheat, oats, carrots, sugar beets

• livestock

• fishing

• industry: sand, dolomite, limestone

• manufacture of chemicals and pharmaceuticals

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Lithuania

• capital: Vilnius

• population: 2 793 694

• area: 65,300 km²

• official language: Lithuanian

• Russian and Polish minority

• 93% Christian, 7% atheist

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Economy, agriculture, industry

• market economy

• agriculture: meat, milk, flax, sugar beets, potatoes, and vegetables

• livestock: dairy cattle and pigs

• industry: sulfates, chalk, iron, phosphorites, amber

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Interesting facts

• Estonia has the highest “mountain” in the Baltics (Suur Munamägi, 318 meters)

• Jeans were invented by a Latvian: the Jewish tailor Jakobs Jufess invented the jeans with the financial support of the widely

known Levi Strauss.

• 50 % of the Estonian land is covered by wild forest, and it is the country with the highest number of meteorite craters per land area in the whole world.

• Every year the river Vilnia in Lithuania is dyed bright emerald green for St. Patrick’s Day. The idea originated in Chicago in the sixties, when Irish plumbers discovered an entirely harmless way of dyeing water.

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Sources

• https://www.globaltenders.com/economy-of-estonia.php/

• https://www.britannica.com/place/Estonia/Demographic-trends

• https://www.baltictimes.com/estonian_state_forest_management_co_so ld_649_hectares_of_land_for_eur_33_mln_in_h1/

• https://www.balticrun.com/12-fun-facts-about-the-baltic-states/

• https://www.britannica.com/place/Lithuania

• https://www.britannica.com/place/Baltic-states