Curated category
Regions of Europe with multiple official languages
- BashkortostanBashkortostan sits wedged between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains, a republic the size of a small country that most people in the world have never…
- ChechnyaChechnya sits wedged between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea in a corner of Eastern Europe that has refused, for centuries, to be governed by anyone who…
- DagestanDagestan holds a distinction that most people would never guess: it is the southernmost tip of Russia, a republic that shares borders not just with fellow…
- IngushetiaIngushetia holds a distinction that defies easy explanation: it is one of the poorest, most conflict-scarred republics in Russia, and yet, as of 2017, it…
- Galicia (Spain)Galicia sits in the far northwest corner of the Iberian Peninsula, a green land of cliffs, river valleys, and drowned coastal inlets.
- Faroe IslandsTórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands, receives only 840 hours of sunshine a year, the fewest recorded of any city in the world.
- KalmykiaKalmykia is the only place in Europe where Buddhism is the majority religion. Tucked into the steppes of southern Russia, this republic of roughly 275,000…
- Komi RepublicThe Komi Republic sits in the northeast of European Russia, a territory larger than Germany, where forests cover more than 70% of the land and winter…
- WalesWales, known in its own language as Cymru, sits on the western edge of the island of Great Britain, bounded by the Irish Sea, the Bristol Channel, and the…
- BrusselsBrussels carries two identities at once, and both are real. It is the capital of Belgium, seat of a monarchy that dates to 1831, and at the same time the de…
- Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland sits in the north-east corner of the island of Ireland, and it has never been easy to agree on what to call it.