Europe

Albania

A rugged Balkan coast of mountains, beaches, and ancient stone towns

Andorra

A tiny Pyrenean principality of ski slopes and duty-free valleys

Austria

An Alpine republic at the heart of old Europe

Belarus

A landlocked heart of Eastern Europe, forest and marsh between giants

Belgium

The compact, bilingual capital of the European project

Bosnia and Herzegovina

A mountainous Balkan crossroads of three peoples and the Ottoman legacy

Bulgaria

Mountains, the Black Sea, and the oldest state name in Europe

Croatia

A crescent of Adriatic coastline, a thousand islands, and walled stone cities

Czechia

The landlocked heart of Central Europe, crowned by Bohemia and Moravia

Denmark

A flat, sea-girt kingdom that anchors Scandinavia to the continent

Estonia

The digital pioneer of the Baltic, half land and half forest

Finland

The land of a thousand lakes and the long northern light

France

Europe's most-visited nation, from the Atlantic to the Alps

Germany

Europe's economic engine at the continent's crossroads

Greece

The cradle of Western civilization, scattered across the Aegean and Ionian seas

Hungary

The Magyar plain, the Danube, and a language like no other in Europe

Iceland

A volcanic island riding the mid-Atlantic rift

Ireland

The Emerald Isle, green, Atlantic, and famously diasporic

Italy

A boot-shaped peninsula of art, food, and the legacy of Rome

Latvia

The Baltic middle land of forests, rivers, and Art Nouveau

Liechtenstein

A tiny Alpine principality between Switzerland and Austria

Lithuania

The largest Baltic state, once a sprawling medieval empire

Luxembourg

A small grand duchy with vast financial reach

Malta

A sun-baked archipelago fortress at the heart of the Mediterranean

Moldova

A landlocked country of vineyards between the Prut and the Dniester

Monaco

A glittering city-state on the French Riviera

Montenegro

A small Adriatic land of black mountains and a fjord-like bay

Netherlands

A low country reclaimed from the sea, dense and inventive

North Macedonia

A landlocked Balkan land of lakes, mountains, and ancient crossroads

Norway

The land of fjords, oil wealth, and the far northern frontier

Poland

From the Baltic dunes to the Tatra peaks, the keystone of Central Europe

Portugal

Europe's Atlantic edge, from port wine valleys to ocean-going history

Romania

The Carpathian arc, the Danube delta, and a Latin island in a Slavic sea

Russia

The largest country on Earth, spanning Europe and Asia across eleven time zones

San Marino

The world's oldest republic, perched on a single mountain in Italy

Serbia

A landlocked Balkan crossroads on the Danube, between empires and eras

Slovakia

A landlocked Carpathian country of castles, caves, and high Tatra peaks

Slovenia

Where the Alps meet the Adriatic in a small, green, mountainous land

Spain

The heart of Iberia, from Moorish palaces to sun-soaked coasts

Sweden

Scandinavia's largest nation, of forest, lakes, and design

Switzerland

An Alpine confederation of neutrality, banks, and peaks

Ukraine

Europe's breadbasket of black-earth steppe, the Dnieper, and the Black Sea

United Kingdom

An island union whose reach once spanned the globe

Vatican City

The world's smallest country, sovereign seat of the Catholic Church