Europe

Map of England

The United Kingdom includes England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Have you ever wondered how they're divided? See England and Wales on our national maps.

United States of America

Taking a trip through America? Get acquainted with the States! See where they're located on a world map. Learn about each State's flower, bird, and tree.

Youth Hostels

Will you be visiting Europe? Have you found a place to stay? Find yourself a youth hostel.

Nature & Science News

Great tits cope well with warming - Great tits in Britain seem to be adapting to climatic change, scientists report, unlike some other birds.

'No bias' against UK astronauts - UK government opposition to human spaceflight will be no bar to its citizens becoming astronauts, Esa says.

New batch of walruses gets tagged - Ten of Greenland's walruses are fitted with sat-tags to confirm whether the blubbery beasts migrate to Canada.

Platypus genetic code unravelled - The genetic blueprint of one of the world's strangest mammals - the duck-billed platypus - is deciphered.

EU's sat-nav pioneer calls home - A demonstrator satellite for the European Galileo system begins transmitting navigation signals back to Earth.

Nasa set to join petaflop elite - Nasa has unveiled a plan to boost its supercomputer power to help plan and model future missions.

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Europe

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A list of countries in the European Union. Includes countries planning to join, with links to maps for each country.

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Placenames Around the World