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Estonia (Eesti in Estonia), the Republic of Estonia for official purposes (in Estonian Eesti Vabariik), is a country in Northern Europe, situated on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea and southern Gulf of Finland . The country is bordered by Finland to the west by Sweden, south by Latvia and east by Russia. This country is generally grouped with Latvia and Lithuania in a geopolitical entity called countries Baltic. However since its independence, Estonia asks to be identified as a northern country. Estonia is part of the European Union since 1 May 2004 and had planned to adopt the euro on 1 January 2008, but This adoption has been delayed until 2010. She is a member of NATO since March 29, 2004. Estonia is a country Finnic, like Finland or Karelia (Russia), Finnic languages belong to the Finno-Ugric family, which includes the Sami language (language Lapland). Estonia is improperly called Baltic country while Estonians do not speak a Baltic language and are not of Baltic culture. On these points, Estonia is a northern country like Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and their associated states. The term Baltic countries tends to appoint more by geographical region as a linguistic or cultural. Estonia is deemed to be a leading country in the world in innovation and use of new technologies, which earned him the nickname of e-stone (or e-Stonia). In Estonia has been developed the software that Skype already has more than 400 million users. Also in Estonia has been created software peer-to-peer Kazaa downloaded by 389 million Internet users. 100% of the country is covered by wifi. In 2006, the country's economic growth was 11.4% and unemployment was only 4.2% of the workforce.