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NUTS 2 statistical regions of the European Union
- Canary IslandsThe Canary Islands sit roughly 100 kilometres off the northwest coast of Africa, yet they belong to Spain. That geographic paradox has shaped everything…
- SicilySicily sits at the center of the Mediterranean Sea, the largest and most populous island in that entire body of water, home to more than 4.7 million people.
- SardiniaSardinia is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and it sits at a crossroads that has drawn Phoenician traders, Roman legions, Vandal…
- HamburgHamburg has more bridges than London, Amsterdam, and Venice put together. Around 2,500 of them cross the city's rivers and canals, more than any other city…
- Galicia (Spain)Galicia sits in the far northwest corner of the Iberian Peninsula, a green land of cliffs, river valleys, and drowned coastal inlets.
- Ionian IslandsThe Ionian Islands sit at the western edge of Greece, separated from the mainland by a stretch of sea that legend says was once crossed by Io herself.
- PiedmontPiedmont sits at the foot of the Alps in northwest Italy, and its very name says so: the medieval Latin Pedemontium, meaning "at the foot of the mountains,"…
- PeloponneseThe Peloponnese hangs from the body of Greece like a hand reaching into the Mediterranean, connected to the rest of the mainland by nothing more than a…
- 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…
- Upper NormandyUpper Normandy existed as a name long before anyone drew a line on a government map. The territories it described by tradition, including the Pays de Caux…
- ViennaVienna sits at the edge of two worlds. To the west rise the Vienna Woods, the northeasternmost foothills of the Alps. To the east, the land flattens into the…
- Lower NormandyLower Normandy occupies a stretch of northwestern France that has been fought over, settled, invaded, and reinvented for more than a thousand years.
- TuscanyTuscany holds the record of having shaped the very language Italy speaks. Florence, its capital, gave Europe both the Renaissance and the literary dialect…
- PraguePrague stands on the Vltava River, its skyline so dense with steeples that a 19th-century mathematician named Bernard Bolzano counted them and arrived at a…