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Member states of NATO

  • United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland sits off the northwestern coast of continental Europe, home to over 69 million people in 2024.
  • LatviaLatvia covers 64,573 square kilometres on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, yet its population numbers only 1.83 million people.
  • ItalyItaly is a peninsula that reaches out into the Mediterranean Sea, anchored by the Alps along its northern border and trailed by nearly 800 islands, the…
  • FinlandFinland sits between latitudes 60 and 70 degrees north, making it one of the world's northernmost countries. Of all world capitals, only Reykjavik lies…
  • PortugalPortugal sits at the far southwestern edge of Europe, a country where the land simply runs out and the Atlantic takes over.
  • CanadaCanada is the second-largest country in the world by total area, yet most of its people cluster in a thin band near a single neighbour.
  • SpainSpain holds the southernmost point of continental Europe, and yet its reach has never stopped at the edge of the Iberian Peninsula.
  • FranceFrance received 102 million foreign visitors in 2025, more than any other country on Earth. Behind that number sits a stranger fact.
  • LithuaniaLithuania once stretched across more land than any other country in Europe. In the first half of the 14th century, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania reached…
  • DenmarkDenmark sits at the southern tip of Scandinavia, a country made up of a single peninsula and 406 islands, yet its reach extends far beyond that modest…
  • SwedenSweden stretches from the 55th parallel to the 69th, a country so long that its southern tip sits closer to Rome than to its own Arctic north.
  • GermanyGermany sits at the geographic heart of Europe, touching nine countries and two seas, and its 82 million people make it the European Union's most populous…
  • EstoniaEstonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, sits at the edge of Northern Europe where the Baltic Sea meets the Gulf of Finland.
  • NorwayNorway gives the United Kingdom a Christmas tree every December, a quiet thank-you for British help during the Second World War.
  • BelgiumBelgium sits at the crossroads of Northwestern Europe, squeezed between France, the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, and the North Sea, covering just 30,689…
  • Member states of NATOThe North Atlantic Treaty was signed on the 4th of April 1949, and with it, twelve nations bound themselves to a single promise: an attack on one is an…
  • United StatesThe United States of America first received its name in a letter dated the 2nd of January, 1776. Stephen Moylan, an aide to General George Washington, wrote…
  • GreeceGreece, officially the Hellenic Republic, has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean. It is a country of 10 million people on the southern tip of the…
  • PolandPoland lost the highest percentage of its citizens of any country in the Second World War. Around 6 million people perished, more than one-sixth of the…
  • TurkeyTurkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is home to over 86 million people. Its capital, Ankara, sits inland on the high central plateau, while Istanbul…
  • IcelandIceland sits on a rift where two of the planet's great tectonic plates, the Eurasian and the North American, are slowly pulling apart.
  • NetherlandsThe Netherlands, a country in Northwestern Europe, has spent centuries in a struggle unlike almost any other on earth: a fight not against rival nations…
  • RomaniaRomania sits at a crossroads that ancient peoples recognized long before modern borders were drawn. Fossils found in a cave called Peștera cu Oase, which…
  • CroatiaCroatia sits at the edge of the Adriatic Sea, a country of over a thousand islands and islets, where the water shifts from turquoise to mint green over…
  • Czech RepublicThe Czech Republic holds a ceramic figurine that is, by current archaeological reckoning, the oldest of its kind ever found anywhere on Earth.
  • SloveniaSlovenia sits at the crossroads of four of Europe's great geographic worlds: the Alps, the Mediterranean, the Pannonian Plain, and the Dinaric mountains.