Regions of Europe

Quiz

1. The canton of Lucerne is located in the centre of which country?
2. Schengen is a small commune in which country?
3. North Yorkshire is the largest county in England. Three over English counties have an area of more than 2,500 square miles. Can you name them?






4. Lapland is the largest and northernmost region of which country?
5. Ireland is divided into which four provinces?
6. Transylvania is a historical region in the centre of which country?
7. Which southernmost autonomous community on mainland Spain is divided into eight provinces, including Granada, Malaga, and Seville?
8. Which German state's capital is Dresden, and largest city Leipzig?
9. Which city in northern Spain is the largest in the Basque Country?
10. Which historical region in the Alps is bordered to the north by Bavaria and to the east by Salzburg and Carinthia?
11. Which French peninsula and region encompasses the northwestern departments of Cotes-d’Armor, Finistere, Ille-et-Vilaine, and Morbihan?
12. Rome is in which Italian administrative region?
13. What is the historical German name for the southern, northern and western areas of former Czechoslovakia?
14. There are three regions of Belgium, Flanders and Brussels are two, what is the third?
15. Which country is divided into three regions, including Gotland in the south?
16. Which autonomous community of Spain is divided into the four provinces of Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona?
17. Which city is the capital of the Algarve region of Portugal?
18. Silesia lies mostly within which country?
19. Wallachia is a historical and geographical region of which country? It's the twelfth-largest country in Europe.
20. Can you name the least populous and westernmost province of the Netherlands?
21. The Old Tolbooth prison in Edinburgh is at the heart of which historical county?
22. Which historical region of the Balkan Peninsula is also the name of the largest geographical region of Greece?
23. Kaliningrad is a Russian semi-exclave between which two countries?
24. Bohemia is home to over half of which country's 10 million citizens?
25. Dalmatia is one of the four historical regions of which country?
26. The Gozo Region is one of five regions of which country?
27. Florence is the capital of which region in Italy, known for it wines?
28. Which county is the largest in Wales?
29. Which type of administrative division of Belarus, Bulgaria, or Ukraine translates to "area", "zone", or "region"?
30. Which country is divided into six districts, including Larnaca, Limassol and Paphos?

Answers

1. Switzerland
2. Luxembourg
3. Lincolnshire, Cumbria and Devon
4. Finland
5. Leinster, Munster, Ulster and Connaught
6. Romania
7. Andalusia
8. Saxony
9. Bilbao
10. Tyrol
11. Brittany
12. Lazio
13. The Sudetenland
14. Wallonia
15. Sweden
16. Catalonia
17. Faro
18. Poland
19. Romania
20. Zeeland
21. Midlothian (and the title of a book by Sir Walter Scott)
22. Macedonia
23. Lithuania and Poland
24. The Czech Republic's
25. Croatia
26. Malta
27. Tuscany
28. Powys
29. Oblast
30. Cyprus