Map Quiz: A Fact about every European Country

Attempts to liberalize the government and economy in this country were put down by the Soviets during the Prague Spring in 1968

Birthplace of Copernicus

Birthplace of Mother Teresa

Birthplace of the reformation

Closely associated with paprika

Credited with creating democracy, Western philosophy, science, mathematics, drama and theater and the Olympic Games

Giuseppe Garibaldi took control of Sicily, creating this country

Has the highest taxes in Europe (55.9%)

Home of Monte Carlo

Home of Nokia, which is named after a town in this country

Home of the Venta waterfall (Ventas rumba), the widest waterfall in Europe

Home to Europe's northernmost point, the North Cape

Hosts the official seats of the European Commission, the Council of the European Union, and the European Council.

In 1492, their king, Ferdinand, sent Christopher Columbus to sail across the Atlantic Ocean

In 1929, became independent from Italy as a distinct territory under "full ownership, exclusive dominion, and sovereign authority and jurisdiction" of the Holy See,

In 2020 became the first country in the world to make all public transport free to use

In 985, Erik the Red was sent away from the island because he had killed someone. He sailed to the west and discovered Greenland. Eric's son Leif Ericson was the first European to reach North America in the year 1000

In modern German it is called Österreich, which literally means "East Empire."

In this country, people engage in what is called 'xhiro, a short walk on your residential road every day to catch up with neighbors

Is known for its neutrality

Is made up of four united countries

Is shaped like a chicken

Its capital Valletta is the southernmost capital of Europe

Its name comes from the Latin word “Romanus” which means “citizen of the Roman Empire."

Its people are the tallest in the world, by nationality

Its people drink filmjölk, a traditional fermented milk product

Known as Dalmatia by the Romans

Literally named 'Land of the Black Mountain.'

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis is both this country's most renowned painter and composer.

On 26 April 1986, nuclear power plant Chernobyl exploded in this country

Separated from the Czech Republic in 1993, an event sometimes called the Velvet Divorce

Small republic in the Pyrenees between France and Spain

The ideals of this country are expressed in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

The largest country in the world

The last known country to be officially ruled by a dictator in Europe

The least visited country in Europe

The River Shannon, which runs from north to south, is the longest river on the island

The world's biggest producer and exporter of raspberries

The world's oldest republic that still exists

The world's second-biggest exporter of rose oil, an ingredient in most perfumes

This Baltic country has has over 2200 islands

This country's Ottoman-era Latin Bridge was the site of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Unilaterally declared its independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008

Was a powerful maritime nation from 1500s–1800s, ruling over Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, East Timore, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sri Lanka and Macau

With Uzbekistan, one of only two doubly landlocked countries. This means that it is landlocked by a landlocked country