European Countries Languages Flags | List of European Countries, Languages, Nationalities and Flags With Descriptions amd Facts

European Countries Languages Flags: Europe is a country with plethora of diversity in all its spheres. It bears variety among its citizens, society, languages and culture. It is quite essential for us to know, the different countries that are an integral part of the European Union.

This specific article has been penned down exclusively for the purpose of cultivating in those learners, extra knowledge about Europe and also about the numerous European countries that are a part of this great continent, and also acquire additional and beneficial knowledge about its languages, flags, nationalities and famous facts.

List of European Countries

Name of European Countries

Description and Pictures about European Languages, Nationalities and Flags

Albania

  • Capital: Tirana
  • Country of: Southern Europe
  • Currency: Albanian lek
  • Dialling code: +355
  • Language: Albanian language
  • Nationality: Albanian
  • Population: 28.4 lakhs
  • President: Ilir Meta

Famous Fact: The famous personality, Mother Teresa was a citizen of Albania since her birth and has been known to be a single person who won the Nobel Prize from the country of Albania.

Andorra

  • Capital: Andorra la Vella
  • Country of: Southern Europe
  • Currency: Euro
  • Dialling code: +376
  • Language: Catalan
  • Nationality: Andorran
  • Population: 77.2 lakhs
  • President: Xavier Espot Zamora

Famous Fact: The country of Andorra is world-famous for the cultivation of tobacco and its influence on tourism.

Austria

  • Capital: Vienna
  • Country of: Western Europe
  • Currency: Euro
  • Dialling code: +43
  • Language: German
  • Nationality: Austrian
  • Population: 89.2 lakhs
  • President: Alexander Van der Bellen

Famous Fact: Austria holds the record for establishing the world’s first zoo in the year of 1752, which is still running presently.

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Belarus

  • Capital: Minsk
  • Country of: Eastern Europe
  • Currency: Belarusian ruble
  • Dialling code: +375
  • Language: Belarusian, Russian
  • Nationality: Belarusian
  • Population: 94 lakhs
  • President: Alexander Lukashenko

Famous Fact: Belarus still has centres that practice communal farming and it is also regarded as Europe’s last dictatorship.

Belgium

  • Capital: Brussels
  • Country of: Western Europe
  • Currency: Euro
  • Dialling code: +32
  • Language: French, Dutch, German
  • Nationality: Belgian
  • Population: 1.16 crore
  • President: Charles Michel

Famous Fact: Belgium is a famous producer, marketer and consumer of multiple chocolate products and kinds, in the world market, annually.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Capital: Sarajevo
  • Country of: Southern Europe
  • Currency: Bosnia Herzegovina Convertible Marka
  • Dialling code: +387
  • Language: Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian
  • Nationality: Bosnian
  • Population: 32.8 lakhs
  • President: Milorad Dodik Sefik Džaferović Zeljko Komšić

Famous Fact: The archaeologists and researchers have found remains of a network of magnificent pyramids which may prove to be more ancient than the pyramids of Egypt.

Bulgaria

  • Capital: Sofia
  • Country of: Eastern Europe
  • Currency: Bulgarian lev
  • Dialling code: +359
  • Language: Bulgarian
  • Nationality: Bulgarian
  • Population: 7.3 lakhs
  • President: Rumen Radev

Famous Fact: Bulgaria is the country in which the yoghurt originated. It is said that it was accidentally discovered and hence the bacteria utilized in the production of yoghurt is names after the country of Bulgaria.

Croatia

  • Capital: Zagreb
  • Country of: Southern Europe
  • Currency: Croatian kuna
  • Dialling code: +385
  • Language: Croatian, German
  • Nationality: Croatian
  • Population: 40.5 lakhs
  • President: Zoran Milanovic

Famous Fact: Croatia is famous for its discovery of the necktie, back in the seventeenth century Europe, during the reign of King Louis XII.

Czech Republic

  • Capital: Prague
  • Country of: Eastern Europe
  • Currency: Czech koruna
  • Dialling code: +420
  • Language: Czech
  • Nationality: Czechs
  • Population: 1.07 crore
  • President: Milos Zeman

Famous Fact: In the city of Prague in the Czech Republic, the ancient astronomical clock, which was built in 1410, is still in operation to the present day.

Denmark

  • Capital: Copenhagen
  • Country of: Northern Europe
  • Currency: Danish krone
  • Dialling code: +45
  • Language: Danish
  • Nationality: Danish
  • Population: 58.3 lakhs
  • President: Mette Frederiksen

Famous Fact: In Denmark, almost every citizen owns a bicycle, making this form of transport a much more desirable option as compared to other automobiles, which exist in the society.

Estonia

  • Capital: Tallinn
  • Country of: Northern Europe
  • Currency: Euro
  • Dialling code: +372
  • Language: Estonian
  • Nationality: Estonian
  • Population: 13.3 lakhs
  • President: Alar Karis

Famous Fact: Estonia is well-known for its digitally advanced society and government, among any such other places in the world.

Finland

  • Capital: Helsinki
  • Country of: Northern Europe
  • Currency: Euro
  • Dialling code: +358
  • Language: Finnish
  • Nationality: Finnish
  • Population: 55.3 lakhs
  • President: Sauli Niinisto

Famous Fact: Finland has been officially recorded as being the ‘happiest country in the world’ and also the country with the cleanest environment and air.’

France

  • Capital: Paris
  • Country of: Western Europe
  • Currency: Euro, Central European franc
  • Dialling code: +33
  • Language: French
  • Nationality: French
  • Population: 6.74 crore
  • President: Emmanuel Macron

Famous Fact: Paris, consisting one among the seven wonders of the world, has been noted to be the most visited place, in the world, giving France a new record.

Germany

  • Capital: Berlin
  • Country of: Western Europe
  • Currency: Euro
  • Dialling code: +49
  • Language: German
  • Nationality: German
  • Population: 8.32 crore
  • President: Frank Walter Steinmeier

Famous Fact: Germany is the only country in the whole world, that allows students of their own country and outside, to attend university without any tuition fees, or student education expenses.

Greece

  • Capital: Athens
  • Country of: Southern Europe
  • Currency: Euro
  • Dialling code: +30
  • Language: Greek
  • Nationality: Greek
  • Population: 1.07 crore
  • President: Katerina Sakellaropoulou

Famous Fact: Greece holds literary significance and is home to innumerable archaeological sites, due to which, wearing heels was banned for visitors to avoid wearing away of ruins.

Hungary

  • Capital: Budapest
  • Country of: Eastern Europe
  • Currency: Hungarian forint
  • Dialling code: +36
  • Language: Hungarian
  • Nationality: Hungarian
  • Population: 97.5 lakhs
  • President: Janos Ader

Famous Fact: Hungarian citizen Erno Rubic created the world-famous brain teaser, the Rubik’s Cube to help in the understanding of dimentional geometry.

Iceland

  • Capital: Reykjavik
  • Country of: Northern Europe
  • Currency: Icelandic krona
  • Dialling code: +354
  • Language: Icelandic
  • Nationality: Icelandic
  • Population: 3.66 lakhs
  • President: Guoni Th. Johannesson

Famous Fact: Iceland gains its per capita income from none other than the most desirable soft drink brand, Coca Cola.

Ireland

  • Capital: Dublin
  • Country of: Northern Europe
  • Currency: Euro
  • Dialling code: +353
  • Language: Irish, English, Scots, Shelta, Ulster
  • Nationality: Irish
  • Population: 6.5 lakhs
  • President: Michael D. Higgins

Famous Fact: Ireland is famous for its spectacular views of ice-covered regions and the most desirable beverage known as Guinness.

Italy

  • Capital: Rome
  • Country of: Southern Europe
  • Currency: Euro
  • Dialling code: +39
  • Language: Italian
  • Nationality: Italian
  • Population: 5.96 crores
  • President: Sergio Mattarella

Famous Fact: Since the 1500s Italy has regarded tomato as their staple vegetable, and the famous pizza sauce is incomplete without the Italian tomato, which brings a fresh twist to the flavour.

Latvia

  • Capital: Riga
  • Country of: Northern Europe
  • Currency: Euro
  • Dialling code: +371
  • Language: Latvian
  • Nationality: Latvian
  • Population: 19 lakhs
  • President: Egils Levits

Famous Fact: Out famous Christmas tree, which is a pine tree or a coniferous tree was decorated in Christmas for the first time in the country of Latvia

Liechtenstein

  • Capital: Vaduz
  • Country of: Western Europe
  • Currency: Swiss franc
  • Dialling code: +423
  • Language: German
  • Nationality: Liechtensteiner
  • Population: 38 crores
  • President: Albert Frick

Famous Fact: The country of Liechtenstein is known to produce enormous manufactures of artificial teeth for patients each year.

Lithuania

  • Capital: Vilnius
  • Country of: Northern Europe
  • Currency: Euro
  • Dialling code: +370
  • Language: Lithuanian
  • Nationality: Lithuanian
  • Population: 27.9 lakhs
  • President: Gitanas Nauseda

Famous Fact: Lithuania has beautiful landscape and welcoming citizens, and was also the largest country in Europe during the fifteenth century.

Luxembourg

  • Capital: Luxembourg
  • Country of: Western Europe
  • Currency: Euro
  • Dialling code: +352
  • Language: German, Luxembourgish, French
  • Nationality: Luxembourgish
  • Population: 6.32 lakhs
  • President: Xavier Bettel

Famous Fact: Luxembourg hosts a cultural dance ceremony, bearing historical significance and paying a tribute to its long-standing traditions.

Malta

  • Capital: Valletta
  • Country of: Southern Europe
  • Currency: Euro
  • Dialling code: +356
  • Language: Maltese Sign Language, English, Maltese
  • Nationality: Maltese
  • Population: 5.25 lakhs
  • President: George Vella

Famous Fact: Malta serves as the literally and historically significant country which is mentioned in ‘The Odyssey’ by Homer.

Moldova

  • Capital: Chisinau
  • Country of: Eastern Europe
  • Currency: Moldovan leu
  • Dialling code: +373
  • Language: Romanian
  • Nationality: Moldovan
  • Population: 26.2 lakhs
  • President: Maia Sandu

Famous Fact: Moldova is host to the most extensive and expensive wine cellar in the whole world, with two million bottles in a 75 mile housing system.

Monaco

  • Capital: Monte-Carlo
  • Country of: Western Europe
  • Currency: Euro
  • Dialling code: +377
  • Language: French
  • Nationality: Monegasques or Monacan
  • Population: 39.2 lakhs
  • Prince: Prince Albert II

Famous Fact: Monaco is home to the world-famous and high-class casino of Monte Carlo that does not allow locals to go in, unless they are employed as a staff in the casino.

Netherlands

  • Capital: Amsterdam
  • Country of: Western Europe
  • Currency: Euro
  • Dialling code: +31
  • Language: Dutch
  • Nationality: Netherlandish
  • Population: 1.74 crores
  • President: Mark Rutte

Famous Fact: In history, the citizens of Netherlands were considered as the shortest, but due to morphological alterations, they are now among the tallest people in the world.

Norway

  • Capital: Oslo
  • Country of: Northern Europe
  • Currency: Norwegian krone
  • Dialling code: +47
  • Language: Norwegian
  • Nationality: Norwegian
  • Population: 53.8 lakhs
  • President: Jonas Gahr Store

Famous Fact: Norway was the country that exported salmon to Japan during a seafood crisis in the past, which made this a staple food soon after 1995.

Poland

  • Capital: Warsaw
  • Country of: Eastern Europe
  • Currency: Polish zloty
  • Dialling code: +48
  • Language: Polish
  • Nationality: Polish
  • Population: 3.8 crores
  • President: Andrzej Duda

Famous Fact: In the span of the late 1300s to mid of !600s, the tasty Bagel was invented in the country of Poland.

Portugal

  • Capital: Lisbon
  • Country of: Southern Europe
  • Currency: Euro
  • Dialling code: +351
  • Language: Portuguese
  • Nationality: Portuguese
  • Population: 1.03 crores
  • President: Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa

Famous Fact: The small fishing village of Nazare, located in Portugal is famous for its massive surfable waves, for tourists and locals, all year round.

Romania

  • Capital: Bucharest
  • Country of: Eastern Europe
  • Currency: Romanian leu
  • Dialling code: +40
  • Language: Romanian
  • Nationality: Romanian
  • Population: 1.93 crore
  • President: Klaus Iohannis

Famous Fact: Francesco Illy, the man who single-handedly invented to Illycaffe brand and also the espresso machine, is a citizen of Romania.

Russia

  • Capital: Moscow
  • Country of: Eastern Europe
  • Currency: Russian ruble
  • Dialling code: +7
  • Language: Russian
  • Nationality: Russian
  • Population: 14.41 crore
  • President: Vladimir Putin

Famous Fact: The oldest or most ancient plant to be regenerated is the Siberian permafrost, dating back to 30,000 years old. This made Russia become the country to regenerate the most antique plant on Earth.

San Marino

  • Capital: San Marino
  • Country of: Southern Europe
  • Currency: Euro
  • Dialling code: +378
  • Language: Italian
  • Nationality: Sammarinese
  • Population: 33.9 lakhs
  • President: none presently

Famous Fact: The country of San Marino is historically significant due to the famous Abraham Lincoln being the country’s citizen.

Serbia and Montenegro (previously Yugoslavia)

  • Capital: Belgrade
  • Country of: Southern European Region
  • Currency: Serbian dinar
  • Dialling code: +381
  • Language: Slovene, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian
  • Nationality: Serbian
  • Population: 8.1 million
  • President: Serbia- Aleksandar Vucic; Montenegro- Milo Dukannovic

Famous Fact: Serbia was in the past, the centre of the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine I.

The county of Montenegro holds a record in the world for having the most largest and more than 2000 years old olive tree among any other place in the world.

Slovakia

  • Capital: Bratislava
  • Country of: Eastern Europe
  • Currency: Euro
  • Dialling code: +421
  • Language: Slovak
  • Nationality: Slovakian
  • Population: 54.6 lakhs
  • President: Zuzana Caputova

Famous Fact: Slovakia is the only country in the world, that has a capital Blatislava, which borders two other countries as well.

Slovenia

  • Capital: Ljubljana
  • Country of: Southern Europe
  • Currency: Euro
  • Dialling code: +386
  • Language: Slovenian
  • Nationality: Slovenian
  • Population: 21 lakhs
  • President: Borut Pahor

Famous Fact: Slovenia is well-known for the majority of its citizens being bee-keepers, throughout history.

Spain

  • Capital: Madrid
  • Country of: Southern Europe
  • Currency: Euro
  • Dialling code: +34
  • Language: Spanish
  • Nationality: Spanish
  • Population: 4.74 crores
  • King: King Felipe VI of Spain

Famous Fact: The first modern novel of Miguel of the Cervantes, known as ‘Don Quixtoe’ was published in the year 1605.

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Sweden

  • Capital: Stockholm
  • Country of: Northern Europe
  • Currency: Swedish krona
  • Dialling code: +46
  • Language: Swedish
  • Nationality: Swedish
  • Population: 1.04 crore
  • President: Kjell Stefan Lofven

Famous Fact: Sweden has set a record for being a peaceful country and to have not fought a war in a span of more than 200 years, since the World War II. port

Switzerland

  • Capital: Bern
  • Country of: Western Europe
  • Currency: Swiss franc
  • Dialling code: +41
  • Language: German, French, Italian, Romansh
  • Nationality: Swiss
  • Population: 86.4 lakh
  • President: Guy Parmelin

Famous Fact: Switzerland stands first in the production and manufacture of the world’s best chocolate, and is known to have created chocolate for the first time in the past.

Ukraine

  • Capital: Kyiv
  • Country of: Eastern Europe
  • Currency: Ukrainian hryvnia
  • Dialling code: +380
  • Language: Ukrainian, English
  • Nationality: Ukrainian
  • Population: 4.41 crore
  • President: Volodymyr Zelensky

Famous Fact: Ukraine is a remarkable country in the whole world, for having a full 100 per cent of Literacy rate among its citizens.

United Kingdom

  • Capital: London
  • Country of: Northern Europe
  • Currency: Pound sterling
  • Dialling code: +44
  • Language: English
  • Nationality: British
  • Population: 6.72 crore
  • Queen: Queen Elizabeth II

Famous Fact: The country of the United Kingdom is the birthplace of the greatest historical band ‘The Beatles.’

Countries of Northern Europe

Country Population as per 2021 Density per Km2
Norway 5,421,241
Sweden 10,099,265 447,420
Denmark 5,792,202 161
Finland 5,540,928 390,903
Iceland 341,243 103,022
United Kingdom 9,789,426 242,500
Ireland 1,024,027 70,273
Lithuania 700,275 65,286
Latvia 1,886,198 64,573
Estonia 1,326,535 42,227

Countries of Eastern Europe

Country Population as per 2021 Density per Km2
Belarus 9,466,860 207,600
Bulgaria 6,975,760 110,879
Czech Republic 10,669,710 88,867
Poland 37,970,870 312,685
Hungary 9,769,950 93,038
Moldova 2,657,640 33,851
Romania 19,356,540 238,391
Russia 144,373,540 17,098,242
Ukraine 44,385,150 603,550
Slovakia 5,454,070 49,035

Countries of Western Europe

Country Population as per 2021 Density per Km2
Austria 8,877,070 83,871
Belgium 11,484,060 30,528
Germany 83,132,800 357,022
France 67,059,890 643,801
Liechtenstein 38,020 160
Luxembourg 619,900 2,586
Netherlands 17,332,850 41,543
Monaco 38,960 2
Switzerland 8,574,830 41,277

Countries of Southern Europe

Country Population as per 2021 Density per Km2
Albania 2,854,190 28,748
Andorra 77,140 468
Bosnia & Herzegovina 330,1,000 51,197
Croatia 40,67,500 56,594
Greece 1,07,16,320 1,31,957
Vatican City 825 0.44
Italy 60,297,400 3,01,340
Malta 5,02,650 316
Montenegro 6,22,140 13,812
Portugal 10,269,420 92,090
San Marino 33,860 61
Serbia 69,44,980 77,474
Slovenia 20,87,950 20,273
Spain 4,70,76,780 5,05,370
North Macedonia 20,83,460 25,713

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