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Estonia

Estonians first voted online in local elections in 2005. Two years later they did it in a parliamentary election, which was another world first.

Five things to know about Estonia

In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the hard countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.

  1. Where it is. It's Estonia, the northernmost of the three Baltic states, across the gulf from Finland. See Estonia on a map.
  2. Its capital, Tallinn, has a walled medieval old town beside the Baltic Sea.
  3. Its language belongs to the same small family as Finnish, not to the family of most European languages.
  4. The software behind Skype was written by programmers from this country.
  5. In 2005 it became the first country to let its people vote online in a nationwide election.

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