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[articleimagethumbLeft]Denmark
The Kingdom of Denmark is geographically the smallest Nordic country and is part of the European Union. It is located in Scandinavia, which is in northern Europe. Denmark borders the Baltic Sea and the North Sea and is north of Germany and Poland, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway. Additionally, the territories of Greenland and the Faroe Islands are under the Danish crown, while enjoying political home rule. read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]Estonia
The Republic of Estonia is a country in Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the north. Estonia has land borders with its fellow Baltic state, Latvia, to the south, with Russia to the east, and maritime border with Finland to the north. read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]Finland
The Republic of Finland is a Nordic country in northeastern Europe, bordered by the Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the southeast and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west. Finland has land frontiers with Sweden, Norway and Russia and a maritime border with Estonia. read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]France
The French Republic is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]Germany
The Federal Republic of Germany is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in central Europe. Germany is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east by Poland, and the Czech Republic, to the south by Austria and Switzerland, and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands. Transversed by the Rhine, Danube, and Elbe rivers, Germany has sat at the crossroads of European trade and cultural routes. read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]Greece
Greece, formally called the Hellenic Republic, is a country in the southeast of Europe on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula. It has land boundaries with Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Albania to the north; and with Turkey to the east. The waters of the Aegean Sea border on Greece to the east, and those of the Ionian and Mediterranean Seas to the west and south. read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]Hungary
The Republic of Hungary (Magyar Köztársaság) or Hungary (Magyarország) is a landlocked country in Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. It is known locally as the Country of the Magyars. read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]Iceland
The Republic of Iceland is a borderless country in the northern Atlantic Ocean, located between Greenland, Scotland and Norway. read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]Ireland
Ireland is the third-largest island in Europe. It lies on the west side of the Irish Sea, close to the island of Great Britain. It is composed of the Republic of Ireland which covers five sixths of the island and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom, which covers the northeastern sixth of the island. The population of the island is approximately 5.7 million people, most of whom live on the east coast. read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]Italy
The Italian Republic or Italy is a southern European country, comprising a boot-shaped peninsula and two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea: Sicily and Sardinia. It shares its nothern alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia. read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]Liechtenstein
The Principality of Liechtenstein is a small landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Switzerland to its west and by Austria to its east. read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]Lithuania
The Republic of Lithuania is a republic in Northeastern Europe. One of the three Baltic States along the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with fellow Baltic State Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland to the south, and the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia to the southwest. read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]Luxembourg
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a small landlocked state in the north-west of the continental European Union, bordered by France, Germany and Belgium. read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]Macedonia
Macedonia is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan peninsula in south-eastern Europe with an area of around 67,000 square kilometres and a population of 4.65 million. The territory corresponds to the basins of (from west to east) the Aliakmon, Vardar/Axios and Strymon rivers (of which the Vardar drains by far the largest area) and the plains around Thessaloniki and Serrai (also known as Saloniki and Serres, respectively). read full article »
[articleimagethumbLeft]Netherlands
The Netherlands is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands is a parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarch, located in northwestern Europe. It borders the North Sea to the northeast, the English Channel to the northwest, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east. read full article »
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