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Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia. Across the Baltic Sea lies Sweden in the west and Finland in the north. The territory of Estonia covers 45,227 km2 (17,462 sq mi), and is influenced by a humid continental climate.
Tallinn Airport (IATA: TLL, ICAO: EETN) or Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport, formerly Ülemiste Airport, is the largest airport in Estonia and home base of the national airline, Estonian Air. Tallinn Airport is open to both domestic and international flights.
It is located approximately 4 km from the centre of Tallinn on the eastern shore of Lake Ülemiste. As Tallinn is the nearest EU capital to the Asia-Pacific region, Tallinn Airport has a major geographical advantage for establishing future long-haul flights between the two regions.
The airport has a single asphalt-concrete runway that is 3,070m long and 45m wide (large enough to handle wide-bodied aircraft such as the Boeing 747), five taxiways and fourteen terminal gates. The airport has also been used for military purposes. It has served as an interceptor aircraft base, being home to the 384th Interceptor Aircraft Regiment (384 IAP), which has operated MiG-23P aircraft. Since 29 March 2009 the airport is officially known as Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport, in honour of the leader of the Estonian independence movement and second President of Estonia, Lennart Meri.