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Did you know...? Ireland is home to Sean's Bar. This bar has been operating since about 900 AD, and is considered to be the oldest pub in the world!
The United Kingdom consists of Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England
Did you know...? Portugal is Europe's oldest country. Phoenicians settled into Lisbon around 1200BC
Did you know...? Spain is home to 45 Unesco World Heritage Sites? That's the third largest number!
Did you know...? The French railway is the second largest in Europe.
Did you know...? There are betwen1000 and 1200 different types of beer brewed in Belgium.
Did you know...? The Netherlands is the world's biggest flower exporter. They produce up to 4.3 billion tulip bulbs annually.
Did you know? Luxembourg is only 998 square miles? Thats smaller than Rhode Island!
Did you know...? The Cologne Cathedral took 600 years to complete, and during WWII, was bombed 84 times. It was not destroyed and was used as a reference point for pilots who were flying over the city.
Did you know...? Switzerland has been neutral since 1516!
Did you know...? Denmark has 444 islands, however, only 76 of them are inhabitied.
Did you know...? Poland is home to the world's largest castle by land area!
Did you know...? Austria is home to Europe's tallest waterfall. Standing at 1246 feet high, it sits inside Hohe Tauern National Park.
Did you know...? Prague's old town houses the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world.
Did you know...? Italy has the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites, at a massive 55 total sites!
Did you know...? Slovakia has over 180 castles along with 425 châteaux, giving it the highest density of castles per capital worldwide!
Did you know...? The word's third-largest parliament building sits on the Danube in Budapest.
Did you know...? Slovenia has over 14,000 caves!
Did you know...? Croatia declared independence in 1991 from Yugoslavia.
Did you know? Weather and mother nature permitting, the Aurora Borealis can be seen from September through March here!
Did you know...? Norway is home to Europe's largest herd of wild reindeer.
Did you know...? There are more than 700 hieroglyphs in the Egyptian alphabet.
Did you know...? Marrakech is known as the "Red City" due to its red-hued buildings, which were constructed from red sandstone and clay.
Did you know...? While most people think sandy beaches and oceans, 80% of Greece is made up of mountains.
Did you know...? Albanian is a completely unique language. There are no modern languages smiliar to it, making it very hard to learn. It's believed to be developed from the Illyrian language.
Did you know...? The oldest inhabited city is Plovdiv. Settlements date back to the Neolithic period, and has some evidence of human presence from around 6000 BCE.
Did you know...? The Romanian language is 1700 years old?
Did you know...? Serbia is one of the three largest raspberry producers in the world. They produce 60,000 - 85,000 tons of raspberries a year.
Did you know...? In 2019 the country changed its naem from Macedonia to North Macedonia, after disputing the name with Greece for 30 years.
Did you know...? The first ever international peace treaty was signed in Turkey in 1259 BCE: The Treaty of Kadesh.
Did you know...? Israel has only been a country since 1948.
Did you know...? There are over 100,000 archaeological sites in Jordan, which makes sense as to why only 15% of Petra has been explored! Jordan also is home to the lowest point on Earth, the Dead Sea, which sits 1378ft below sea level
Did you know...? Georgia is the birthplace of wine, with the first drinks showing at least 8,000 years old!
Did you know...? Armenia is considered to be the homeland of the apricot?
Did you know...? Two-thirds of Sweden is covered in forest.
Did you know...? Finland has 187,888 lakes!
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