๐ฆ๐นAustriaCapital: Vienna. 9.2 million people. German. Euro. In the EU since 1995.
๐ง๐ชBelgiumCapital: Brussels. 12 million people. Dutch, French and German. Euro. EU founding member.
๐ซ๐ทFranceCapital: Paris. 69 million people. French. Euro. EU founding member.
๐ฉ๐ชGermanyCapital: Berlin. 83 million people. German. Euro. EU founding member.
๐ฑ๐ฎLiechtensteinCapital: Vaduz. 41,000 people. German. Swiss franc. Not in the EU.
๐ฑ๐บLuxembourgCapital: Luxembourg. 687,000 people. French, German and Luxembourgish. Euro. EU founding member.
๐ฒ๐จMonacoA city-state on the coast of France. 38,000 people. French. Euro. Not in the EU.
๐ณ๐ฑNetherlandsCapital: Amsterdam. 18 million people. Dutch. Euro. EU founding member.
๐จ๐ญSwitzerlandCapital: Bern. 9.1 million people. German, French, Italian and Romansh. Swiss franc. Not in the EU.
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Northern Europe 10
๐ฉ๐ฐDenmarkCapital: Copenhagen. 6 million people. Danish. Danish krone. In the EU since 1973.
๐ช๐ชEstoniaCapital: Tallinn. 1.4 million people. Estonian. Euro. In the EU since 2004.
๐ซ๐ฎFinlandCapital: Helsinki. 5.6 million people. Finnish and Swedish. Euro. In the EU since 1995.
๐ฎ๐ธIcelandCapital: Reykjavรญk. 392,000 people. Icelandic and Icelandic Sign Language. Icelandic krรณna. Not in the EU.
๐ฎ๐ชIrelandCapital: Dublin. 5.5 million people. Irish and English. Euro. In the EU since 1973.
๐ฑ๐ปLatviaCapital: Riga. 1.8 million people. Latvian. Euro. In the EU since 2004.
๐ฑ๐นLithuaniaCapital: Vilnius. 2.9 million people. Lithuanian. Euro. In the EU since 2004.
๐ณ๐ดNorwayCapital: Oslo. 5.6 million people. Norwegian and Sami. Norwegian krone. Not in the EU.
๐ธ๐ชSwedenCapital: Stockholm. 11 million people. Swedish. Swedish krona. In the EU since 1995.
๐ฌ๐งUnited KingdomCapital: London. 69 million people. English. Pound sterling. Left the EU in 2020.
Southern Europe 15
๐ฆ๐ฑAlbaniaCapital: Tirana. 2.3 million people. Albanian. Albanian lek. EU candidate.
๐ฆ๐ฉAndorraCapital: Andorra la Vella. 83,000 people. Catalan. Euro. Not in the EU.
๐ง๐ฆBosnia and HerzegovinaCapital: Sarajevo. 3.1 million people. Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. Convertible mark. EU candidate.
๐ญ๐ทCroatiaCapital: Zagreb. 3.9 million people. Croatian. Euro. In the EU since 2013.
๐ฌ๐ทGreeceCapital: Athens. 10 million people. Greek. Euro. In the EU since 1981.
๐ฎ๐นItalyCapital: Rome. 59 million people. Italian. Euro. EU founding member.
๐ฒ๐นMaltaCapital: Valletta. 580,000 people. Maltese and English. Euro. In the EU since 2004.
๐ฒ๐ชMontenegroCapital: Podgorica. 623,000 people. Montenegrin. Euro. EU candidate.
๐ฒ๐ฐNorth MacedoniaCapital: Skopje. 1.8 million people. Macedonian and Albanian. Macedonian denar. EU candidate.
๐ต๐นPortugalCapital: Lisbon. 11 million people. Portuguese. Euro. In the EU since 1986.
๐ธ๐ฒSan MarinoCapital: San Marino. 34,000 people. Italian. Euro. Not in the EU.
๐ท๐ธSerbiaCapital: Belgrade. 6.5 million people. Serbian. Serbian dinar. EU candidate.
๐ธ๐ฎSloveniaCapital: Ljubljana. 2.1 million people. Slovene. Euro. In the EU since 2004.
๐ช๐ธSpainCapital: Madrid. 49 million people. Spanish. Euro. In the EU since 1986.
๐ป๐ฆVatican CityA city-state inside Rome. 882 people. Italian and Latin. Euro. Not in the EU.
Eastern Europe 10
๐ง๐พBelarusCapital: Minsk. 9.1 million people. Belarusian and Russian. Belarusian ruble. Not in the EU.
๐ง๐ฌBulgariaCapital: Sofia. 6.4 million people. Bulgarian. Euro. In the EU since 2007.
๐จ๐ฟCzechiaCapital: Prague. 11 million people. Czech. Czech koruna. In the EU since 2004.
๐ญ๐บHungaryCapital: Budapest. 9.5 million people. Hungarian. Hungarian forint. In the EU since 2004.
๐ฒ๐ฉMoldovaCapital: Chiศinฤu. 2.4 million people. Romanian. Moldovan leu. EU candidate.
๐ต๐ฑPolandCapital: Warsaw. 36 million people. Polish. Polish zลoty. In the EU since 2004.
๐ท๐ดRomaniaCapital: Bucharest. 19 million people. Romanian. Romanian leu. In the EU since 2007.
๐ท๐บRussiaCapital: Moscow. 144 million people. Russian. Russian ruble. Not in the EU. Spans Europe and Asia.
๐ธ๐ฐSlovakiaCapital: Bratislava. 5.4 million people. Slovak. Euro. In the EU since 2004.
๐บ๐ฆUkraineCapital: Kyiv. 39 million people. Ukrainian. Ukrainian hryvnia. EU candidate.
How this list was compiled: The 44 countries are the European entries in the United Nations M49 standard (https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/overview/) that are states: 43 UN member states (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_United_Nations) plus the Holy See, a UN observer, shown as Vatican City. The four region chips are M49's own: Eastern Europe 10, Northern Europe 10, Southern Europe 15, Western Europe 9. M49 also lists seven places in Europe that are not states (ร land, the Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, Jersey, and Svalbard and Jan Mayen); they are never drawn. M49 files Cyprus, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan under Western Asia and Kazakhstan under Central Asia, and Kosovo is not in M49; those seven are kept under optInItems and are not in the draw. M49 counts all of Russia in Europe, and its card says it spans two continents. Populations are the World Bank's 2025 mid-year totals (indicator SP.POP.TOTL, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL, last updated 2026-07-13, used under CC BY 4.0), rounded on the cards. The World Bank has no figure for the Holy See, so Vatican City shows the 882 residents counted on 31 December 2024 by the Vatican City State (https://www.vaticanstate.va/it/stato-governo/note-generali/popolazione.html). Capitals were checked against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_capitals (Amsterdam and The Hague, Bern, Podgorica and Cetinje, and the city-states Monaco and Vatican City) and, for Bern's standing as federal city since 1848 and fifth largest Swiss city, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bern. Official languages were checked against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_official_languages_by_country_and_territory, which gives none in law for the United Kingdom and for Bosnia and Herzegovina; their cards show the languages used in practice. Currencies were checked against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_circulating_currencies. The 27 EU members and their accession years are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European_Union (26 are in this list; Cyprus is the 27th; the six founders are dated 1958, when the European Economic Community began; the United Kingdom left on 31 January 2020). The nine EU candidates are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_enlargement_of_the_European_Union. The 21 euro-area members, Bulgaria since 2026 among them, the four microstates that use the euro by agreement (Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City) and the two that adopted it on their own (Montenegro, Kosovo) are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone, and the date the euro replaced the Bulgarian lev, 1 January 2026, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_lev. The 29 Schengen members (25 EU members plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland; Ireland and Cyprus are outside) are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area. The 14 landlocked countries are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landlocked_country. European Russia's 3,952,550 sq km and 39.5 percent share, and Kazakhstan's share, are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_area; Turkey's 3 percent is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Thrace; Kosovo's 2008 declaration is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo. Outlines are drawn from Natural Earth (https://www.naturalearthdata.com/, public domain), each scaled to fill its own box, so they are not to a common scale. Natural Earth draws borders as they are controlled on the ground, so three outlines were redrawn to the borders the UN recognises by joining Natural Earth's own pieces: Ukraine includes Crimea, Russia does not, and Cyprus (an opt-in card) is the whole island. Monaco and Vatican City have no outline because they are too small to draw even from 1:10m data. Czechia, Moldova, Russia and the Netherlands carry their short English names; x.unName keeps the UN's wording. All checked 2026-09-18. Licence: CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ for the population figures (World Bank Open Data, https://data.worldbank.org/). The country list and region names follow the UN M49 standard: the names and codes are facts, the UN's own pages are copyright United Nations (https://www.un.org/en/about-us/copyright, checked 2026-09-18) and none of their text is copied here. Natural Earth map data is public domain. Selection, wording and outline drawings are own work
How it works
This random European country generator draws from the 44 countries on the United Nations list. Three clubs cut across them: 26 are in the EU, 25 use the euro and 29 are in the Schengen Area. For a random country in Europe, just press.
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For capitals quizzes and country reports
For a capitals quiz, press Hide all details and guess before you tap a card. Bern is the trap: Switzerland's capital is its fifth largest city, not Zurich or Geneva. For reports, let students claim cards from the screen as you press.
Filter by EU, euro, Schengen, region or coastline
The dropdown under the button holds the three clubs. Ireland is in the EU but outside Schengen, while Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland are the reverse. More filters adds the United Nations regions, where the United Kingdom counts as Northern Europe and Czechia as Eastern, and a coast row: In the European Union plus Landlocked leaves Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Luxembourg and Slovakia.
Guess the smaller of two cards: nine of the 44 have fewer than a million people, and Vatican City has 882 residents.
Guess the currency before you look. Six EU members keep their own money: Czechia, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Sweden.
Questions and answers
How many countries are in Europe?
This page counts 44: the 43 UN members the United Nations files under Europe, plus Vatican City, a UN observer. Longer lists add Cyprus, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, which the UN files under Asia, and Kosovo, not a UN member. None is drawn.
Does it work as a random EU country generator?
Yes. Choose In the European Union in the dropdown under the button, or open a link ending in #eu. It deals 26 of the 27 members: Cyprus is missing because the United Nations files it under Western Asia. Uses the euro leaves 25 countries.
Is Russia in Europe or Asia?
Both. About 3.95 million square kilometres lie west of the Ural Mountains, almost 40 percent of Europe, and more lies in Asia. The United Nations counts all of it under Eastern Europe, so Russia is in this draw.
