Mind-blowing facts about Estonia

Today we will tell you those secret things about Estonia, the ones you don’t know. We will share school facts about Estonia. So let’s start the news.

So fact number one:
Estonia is one of the most advanced societies in the world. Estonia is the first country that started e-Residency.
This means that even if you are not living in Estonia, you can still set up your business in Estonia. All the services are provided to you online. You don’t even need to stay in Estonia — you can operate your business online. All the government services in Estonia are available online. Even online voting — you can vote from home; you don’t need to go anywhere.
From A to Z, the whole system is online.
If you want to do anything — book a doctor’s appointment, book a haircut, go somewhere, or do anything — everything is available online. You don’t need to go anywhere; you can sit at home and do everything yourself.

The second fact is:
Estonia is the startup hub of Europe. Many big companies were founded by Estonians.
For example: Skype, TransferWise, Bolt.
You must have definitely heard their names. If you haven’t heard of Bolt, you must have heard of Skype, and you must have heard of Wise. With Wise you can transfer your money from one country to another easily without worrying about exchange rates.
These big companies were founded in Estonia.
And Estonia has one of the highest rates of startups per capita in Europe. The government also helps people a lot in setting up startups and businesses.
Setting up your company in Estonia is very simple. You can do it yourself; you don’t need any lawyer. It takes 15 minutes to set up a company, and the whole process is very simple in Estonia.

The third fact is:
Estonia is the cleanest country in the whole world — not even just in Europe. We found this out recently. Cleanliness we can already see — the roads and everything are so clean, we see it everywhere — but we didn’t know that Estonia ranks number one in cleanliness.
We feel very good when we get to know such good things about the country we live in.
The air here is also very clean, the environment here is very good — really very, very good in Estonia.

Fourth fact:
Free public transportation. Who doesn’t like free public transportation? We think everyone likes it.
And personally, it’s our favorite. This is one of the reasons we like Estonia so much. If you want to go anywhere, you can easily take a bus, tram, or train and go.
In Estonia — especially in Tallinn city (the capital) — it is free.
If you go to another city like Tartu or Pärnu, then it is not free, but you can easily get bus passes made. It is not that difficult.
But in Tallinn, the capital city, everything is easily accessible and very simple.

Fifth fact:
E-Estonia and the Digital ID card.
What does this mean?
If you live in Estonia, you get a residence permit card. Through that card, you can do many of your tasks yourself — such as online banking, signing documents, or getting medical access.
You don’t need anyone’s help; it’s very easy.
We don’t know about other European countries — We know they definitely give residence permits — but we don’t know how easy it is to do your tasks yourself there.
For example, here if you want to access your medical records — when you last visited the doctor, what your results were, what the doctor prescribed — you can check everything yourself.
If you want to download a bank statement or sign any document or contract, you can sign it through Smart ID or Mobile ID and continue the process yourself.
Everything is very easy.

And the last fact:
Estonia is the first country to declare internet access as a human right.
This means Estonia believes that internet access is very important for humans.
In other countries, we hear that education is very important or something else. But for Estonia, internet access is very important.
Everywhere there is internet — it is easily accessible.
Even if you go to the forests or anywhere you want — the whole country has full WiFi coverage.
You can easily access the internet.