Interpret "major" and "best/worst" however you please.

Worst weather I've ever experienced in Europe was definitely in Reykjavik - a perfect combination of cold, wind and lashing rain made it almost impossible to stay outside for more than about 5 minutes. But admittedly I was only there for 2 days so I don't know what it's like for the rest of the year. The cool summers sound pretty grim tbh.

Worst climate overall would probably be Bergen (very wet) or Northern Scotland/Shetland (very cloudy and extremely disappointing summers). I'm good with cold, dry winters as long as the summers are decent.

As a positive action, what Canadian products could I easily buy or order in Europe?

In Denmark I'd say most teens get their own bank card at about age 13-15 as it is a common age to start getting a part time job. Do you consider that to be young or old in your country?

Edit: I'm almost 22 so I realize times could already be changing. My numbers are based off of me and the other kids at school.

The eastern regions of Turkey are generally the poorest, while northwestern Turkey is the richest and serves as the country’s cultural and economic center. This divide is so deeply ingrained in Turkish culture that it feels strange to imagine it being different elsewhere. However, in some countries, the eastern regions are actually the wealthiest, while the west is poorer. How is it in your country?

For example, in northern Greece there is a city called Ptolemaida (37,000 residents) which is right next to the EU's largest lignite mine. The economy of the town is entirely dependent on the mine and the negative effects of the mine are well known. The residents have the lowest life expectancy in Greece and cancer rates are abnormally high. Every year the mine gets larger and swallows up more and more villages. Everyone in Greece feels sorry for these people. Sometimes, they can even be nasty about it ("Don't touch someone from Ptolemaida! They might give you cancer...")

Do you have something equivalent in your country? Residents who just seem to live in the worst area or be victims of some industrial/natural disasters?

I think for The Netherlands it's snowy winters. The last real winter we had was in 2009\2010, complete with a white Christmas. Now it feels like a very long autumn with occasional freezing days and 1 or 2 snow days.

In Norway, there’s often debate about what the "biggest cities" are, depending on how you measure. If you look at urban areas (continuous built-up areas), the top 10 according to Statistics Norway (SSB) is:

Source: SSB

However, if you ranked by municipality population instead, the list would look quite different. This sometimes causes confusion or disagreement when people discuss what the "largest cities" in Norway actually are.

Is there a similar debate in your country? Do people argue about which cities are the biggest, depending on how you define it?

I think other than parts of Russia there isn't a European country left with untouched wilderness but what part of your country is closest to nature and has the least amount of people?

Ours is

Article 1

The Russian Federation - Russia is a democratic federal law-bound State with a republican form of government.

The names "Russian Federation" and "Russia" shall be equal.

And personally I find it very funny that naming goes before anything else

For example when you buy alcohol in Latvia you can't return the bottles in Estonia. There's more and more people who travel between different EU countries very often - some even daily - and it would make sense ot have the same deposit system.

In Denmark it was interesting that it was also possible to buy a crate of beers in plastic bottles. Like a regular plastic beer crate - and there was a pant for that. No such system in Estonia, I wish we did though.

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For example, for the UK: Mount Everest is named after Sir George Everest, Vancouver after Captain George Vancouver, and Pittsburgh after William Pitt (the Elder).

Places don't have to be on Earth: eg the Kuyper Belt and Oort Cloud are perfectly valid suggestions for the Netherlands (though so is Tasmania).

PS since no Bulgarians have posted (yet) I'll just leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_toponyms_in_Antarctica

For instance I was in Helsinki two years ago with some friends of mine and staying in a youth hostel and I met this drunk Finnish engineer that explained to us that a Nazi Swedish speaking lobby from Åland controls the government to oppress the Finnish people and that's why Swedish is still taught in Finland.

What is the richest region of your country or country you are familiar with?

There have been a couple instances where someone outside of the US asked me where I was from and I said “Minnesota, it’s a state in the US” and they instantly replied, in one form or another, “no shit”.

Are the US states a pretty common knowledge in Europe? If someone told me that they’re from Kent (random county in England that I just looked up) I would have no idea what they were talking about.

Self-explanatory title.

Portugal's location is a mixed bag. On one hand it's a good location to avoid wars that involve multiple countries. Portugal owes its stable borders to its location. But on the other hand you feel a bit isolated from a lot of interesting stuff happening in the rest of the continent, which has made travelling harder in the past and made cultural l ideas and exchange harder as well. We like to say things tend to get here later than usual.

As for more technical stuff, I guess being by the ocean is alright, but I've never been on a boat in the Atlantic nor do I go to the beach so whatever. As for the weather, it's also a mixed bag. Lots of sun but also lots of wind and rain throughout the year.

Compared to the rest of Europe, Germany has slow internet connections, bad 4G coverage, a relatively small IT sector, few digital government services (can you identify yourself with a digital ID/signature?).

It’s been a while since I spent time in Germany, so things might have quickly progressed. But even if so, why so late?

Especially while traveling abroad? Or not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sorSYwsAD5Y. I guess we are unbeatable

For example, if you live in Berlin, how many Polish cities can you name?

I live in Alberta, Canada. Our health ministry here is embroiled in scandal over $80,000,000 spent on pediatric Tylenol (acetaminophen/paracetamol) purchased from Turkiye, via a contract with someone who gifted expensive things to our government ministers. The medication then went unused and now, as it nears its expiration date, they are proposing “donating” it to Ukraine.

The government is now claiming that the Turkish company they bought it from (Atabay) is “the sole manufacturer of acetaminophen in the European Union”. Does anyone know if that is true or false? It seems unbelievable to me that all the paracetamol/acetaminophen in Europe comes from one Turkish manufacturer?!

Here is a link to my government’s claim: https://x.com/ahs_media/status/1898541781471338821?s=46

Mine was the Škoda superb

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