45 European Country Outlines Quiz

[C] Slovakia | A compact, reversed teardrop tilted eastward, its northern edge scalloped by the High Tatra arc.

[A] Serbia | A stout, south-pointing arrowhead whose northern base is widened by the Pannonian Plain.

[B] Denmark | A slender Jutland “finger” reaching north, studded with scattered Baltic islets like sprinkled crumbs.

[A] Czech Republic (Czechia) | A ragged, almost-rectangle pinched in the east where Moravia narrows toward Slovakia.

[D] Sweden | A long, eastern-tilted cylinder with a broken west coast serrated by countless fjord-like inlets.

[C] Finland | A rightward-leaning boot sole whose heel is the Gulf of Bothnia and toe points at Russia.

[A] Norway | The western edge of Scandinavia, a coastline so deeply incised it looks nibbled by sea monsters.

[D] Iceland | A rugged, roughly circular volcanic shield rising from the North Atlantic, its edges frayed by fjords.

[C] Monaco | A microscopic, wedge-shaped shard clinging to the Mediterranean beneath France’s coastal curve.

[B] Latvia | A broad, eastward-tilting slab indented by the Gulf of Riga on its northwestern side.

[A] North Macedonia | A compact, landlocked quadrilateral with a subtle southeastern tail into Greece.

[D] Estonia | A small, east-bulging shield whose northern shore is peppered with tiny Baltic islands.

[B] Portugal | A ragged rectangle clinging to the Atlantic, its southwest corner bluntly sheared off.

[D] Greece | A three-pronged hand of land thrusting south into the Aegean, fingers splayed and knuckles islands.

[C] Hungary | A broad, open basin shaped like a shallow soup bowl with the Danube slicing diagonally across.

[A] Luxembourg | A petite, southwest-leaning rhombus almost swallowed by its larger neighbors.

[C] Montenegro | A narrow Adriatic ribbon that tapers southward into a sharp mountain wedge.

[C] Malta | A tiny cluster of limestone dots in the central Mediterranean, barely visible at continental scale.

[B] Italy | The classic high-heeled boot poised to kick Sicily like a stone across the sea.

[A] United Kingdom | A northwest-tilted assemblage: Scotland’s angular top, England’s ragged triangle, Wales’s western hook.

[B] France | The famed hexagon, its six sides softened by coastal curves and riverine bites.

[D] Andorra | A minuscule, vertical sliver tucked high between France and Spain in the Pyrenees.

[D] Ireland | A saucer-shaped island with a western coastline scalloped by Atlantic bays and inlets.

[C] Croatia | A boomerang arcing along the Adriatic, its inner edge carved by Bosnia’s intrusion.

[A] Bosnia and Herzegovina | A jagged, heart-like landmass whose southern tip nearly meets the sea.

[B] Moldova | A small, roughly comma-shaped country curling eastward around its breakaway region.

[B] Liechtenstein | A microscopic, north-south spindle wedged along the Rhine between Switzerland and Austria.

[B] Switzerland | A compact, rugged square pinched in the southwest by the arc of Lake Geneva.

[C] Turkey | A transcontinental bridge: the rectangular Anatolian plateau and the tiny European Thrace thumb.

[A] Albania | A small, southeast-facing wedge pressed between mountains and the Ionian–Adriatic coast.

[A] Slovenia | A miniature, west-pointing spearhead whose tip grazes the Adriatic at a single point.

[C] Romania | A large, southeast-leaning oval whose southeast corner is bitten off by the Black Sea.

[C] Netherlands | A low-lying, northwest-leaning rectangle half-drowned by the North Sea and rivers.

[B] Spain | A vast, southwest-leaning rectangle framed by Portugal and the Atlantic on its left side.

[D] Poland | A broad, eastward-sloping plain whose northern coast is gently scalloped by the Baltic.

[A] Belarus | A sizeable, landlocked square slightly dented on its eastern edge by Russia.

[B] Bulgaria | A compact, eastward-pointing arrow whose eastern shaft is the Black Sea coast.

[C] Ukraine | A vast, eastward-leaning rectangle whose southern coast is the long Black Sea arc.

[A] Belgium | A small, west-sloping rectangle almost bisected by the east-west linguistic frontier.

[D] Austria | A compact, eastward-leaning parallelogram ringed by the Alps’ sweeping arcs.

[D] San Marino | A tiny, irregular nub entirely surrounded by northeastern Italy’s hills.

[A] Holy See | A microscopic, nearly square enclave entirely within Rome’s western bend.

[C] Lithuania | A north-south oval flattened on its western Baltic side and pinched by Latvia.

[C] Russia | An immense, eastward-sprawling expanse whose western corner is a small European window.

[A] Germany | A large, central-European polygon whose northern coast is ragged and southern edge alpine.