Percentage of Each European Country’s Land That Is Actually in Europe

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  1. Explanations:

    Denmark: Greenland

    UK, Netherlands, Norway, France: overseas departments/territories (mostly islands)

    Spain and Portugal: Islands in the Atlantic + Spain has small pieces of land in Northern Africa

    Italy and Greece: They have islands near Africa and Asia that the image counts

    Turkey and Russia: Obvious, majority of their countries are on the Asia side of the Eurasia divide

  2. What is Italy’s missing 1%? I don’t understand. Is Lampedusa considered in Africa for some arbitrary reason?

  3. Russia, despite having only 23% of its territory in Europe, is still the biggest European country with that 23%

  4. EducatorComplete4560 on

    I do wonder where the 74% for the Netherlands comes from. My break down so far:

    It says “actually in Europe” which I take to be within the European borders.

    Then it says “country”. Let me quote wikipedia here: “The Netherlands…. is the largest of the four constituent countries” So The Netherlands is the country. The Netherlands consists of the twelve provinces and the Caribbean territories of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba. Now the numbers:

    Mainland Europe Netherlands: 41.543 km²
    Bonaire: 288 km²
    Sint Eustatius: 21 km²
    Saba: 13 km²

    Total:41.865 km²

    So then 99,2% is in mainland Europe.

    Perhaps they used the whole Kingdom, which consists of four constituent countries. This adds:

    Aruba: 180 km²
    Curaçao: 444 km²
    Sint Maarten (Dutch side) 34 km²

    Which makes the total of the Kingdom of the Netherlands:
    42.523 km²

    So then 97,7% is in mainland Europe. Nowhere near 74%. Let”s try Surinam, the last country to gain independance in 1975?

    Surinam: 163.820 km²

    New total then: 206.343 km²

    Which makes 1975 Kingdom of the Netherlands 20,1%.

    I give up, no idea where the 74% came from. I say it is just horribly wrong. Should be 99% as well.

  5. Spiritual_Breakfast9 on

    Why Denmark controls Greenland out of all the powers of Europe why tiny little Denmark?

  6. Fun fact – 23% of Russia is in Europe, but Russia takes up about 40% of the area in Europe.

  7. All of the country of Denmark is in Europe. Greenland is a country in the kingdom of Denmark. Two different countries and one kingdom. Is it that hard to get?

  8. LubedCompression on

    I’m certain a few of these are quite wrong. The UK has so many territories overseas and they have a slice of Antarctica. UK should be around 12%.

  9. ToKeepAndToHoldForev on

    See the OOP is taking a harsh yet also unclear stance towards the physical boundaries of “Europe,” where Turkey is a European country but 97% not in Europe. Fascinating. What’s the 1% for Italy? Where does Russia’s European section end? The world may never know.