Curated category
Member states of the Council of Europe
- 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.
- 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…
- MoldovaMoldova is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of 33,843 square kilometres and a population of about 2.38 million people.
- Georgia (country)Georgia sits at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and West Asia, a country of 3.9 million people whose language bears no relation to any other language family…
- 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.
- 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…
- AzerbaijanAzerbaijan sits at a crossroads so ancient and contested that even its name carries the echoes of a Persian satrap from the age of Alexander the Great.
- 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…
- 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…
- SwitzerlandSwitzerland sits at the crossroads of four languages, three mountain ranges, and a thousand years of deliberate self-invention.
- UkraineUkraine covers 603,628 square kilometres of Eastern Europe, making it the second-largest country on the continent after Russia.
- Czech RepublicThe Czech Republic holds a ceramic figurine that is, by current archaeological reckoning, the oldest of its kind ever found anywhere on Earth.