Click each European country on the map. How many can you name?
Europe packs an extraordinary amount of history, culture and geography into a relatively small space. From the fjords of Norway to the olive groves of Greece, from the misty British Isles to the Alpine peaks straddling half a dozen nations, the continent is a dense patchwork of peoples, languages and landscapes. Some countries are continental heavyweights, others are city-state curiosities that fit inside a single neighbourhood.
The map of Europe as we know it today is surprisingly recent. Empires rose and fell, borders were erased and redrawn after two world wars, and the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 reshaped the east of the continent almost overnight. Czechoslovakia split in two, Yugoslavia fractured into seven, and new names appeared on the map — Moldova, Belarus, North Macedonia. Even now the edges of "Europe" are debated: is Turkey in, is Russia out, where exactly does the Caucasus belong?
Learning to place every European country is a great way to make sense of the news, understand historical fault lines, and appreciate the sheer variety of a continent you could drive across in a couple of days.
