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Most people who dont live in Europe/Asia or visited atleast once know next to nothing about Europe, so I'd say people know the least about all of Europe.
Atleast it feels that way here in America where some people don't even know anything about the state they live next to, nevermind the town just down the street from them.
A piece of land needs to have at least 100.000 people to be considered a country imo, reason why i not included Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein and San Marino.
England, Germany, France, Spain and Italy are to well known for this poll.
But they are countries. Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein and San Marino. In fact, they are on my list.
So that's four.
To those 4, I'll add Malta, Cyprus, Slovenia. Albania, Slovakia, and Wales.
Belarus, Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldova, I think most of the people cannot even point in the map where these places are located. And since the fall of USSR I never heard more about Belarus and Moldova in the news. What I know is that Belarus is the only remaining dictatorship in Europe and Moldova is the poorest country, speaks Romanian (thus, a latin country!) and has a separatist region called Transdniestria.
Lithuania and Latvia are both obscure countries and it's easy to have confusion, since both are in the same region, have similar names and both are the unique surviving states speaking baltic languages. Riga is perhaps more famous than Latvia itself. Lithuania is famous here in São Paulo due to the diaspora; we have a neighbourhood where most of the inhabitants are from lithuanian ancestry. Same confusion is possible involving Slovakia and Slovenia.
Albanian used to be most famous in the past due to the brutal dictatorship of Enver Hoxha - almost as worse as that in North Korea, and later due to the disputes about Kosovo. But nowadays it remain somewhat obscure.
Iceland is probably the less known of the countries in Western Europe. What most people say it has a lot of ice and volcanoes, and the people speak a weird germanic language.
Malta is also not very known, but it received some attention in the news due to the refugees from Africa to Europe in the recent years.
But they are countries. Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein and San Marino. In fact, they are on my list.
So that's four.
To those 4, I'll add Malta, Cyprus, Slovenia. Albania, Slovakia, and Wales.
Monaco is very famous, although there is a lot of people thinking that it's a city of France, not a country by its own right.
And Liechtenstein... I visited it!
You left out some small random countries like Andorra, Liechenstein, and San Marino. I know these places exist but know absolutely nothing about Andorra or Leichenstein. I know San Marino is surrounded by Italy and wonder if it is just like Italy. The name itself sounds Italian so I assume they speak Italian there.
I don't consider Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, or England to be individual countries since the UK is a country. Of the British isles Wales is definitely mentioned the least compared to the others. I know the Welsh have their own language but it isn't spoken much I wonder how distinct modern Wales is from England since its culture is not mentioned as much as Scottish culture which is distinct from England in many ways. I don't consider Georgia and Armenia to be European countries.
I am American and have never heard of Crimea before the current crisis. I guess its in limbo now after their "independence" and subsequent annexation by Russia that's not internationally recognized, not even by Russian allies like China and North Korea. I knew Ukraine was a former Soviet republic but didn't know about their problem with the ethnic Russians still living there even though the USSR is gone.
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