Amazing facts about Europe that you surely don't know.............???? 


Europe is made up of 50 countries, each with its own language, culture and history. In this way the Old Continent is placed as a wide and diverse territory, which hides peculiar and curious data. We have compiled 10 amazing facts from Europe that you might not know.

As its name indicates, the Old Continent has a lot of history behind it. European science, art, culture extend beyond its borders and its territory welcomes some of the most tourist countries in the world.
It could be said that in general we know a lot about Europe. But the truth is that this territory is a vast and diverse space that also hides a good number of peculiar and curious facts and data that you may not know.


The largest island in the world is European territory


The largest island in the world (after Australia which, being a country is not considered in this classification) is Greenland, which although it is an autonomous region and located in North America, belongs to the kingdom of Denmark.
Despite this, the independence sentiment is strong in Greenlanders and this was demonstrated in 2008 when up to 75% of the population of the island voted in favor of a statute that recognizes the right to self-determination. But at the moment it still belongs to Denmark.
As for its size, the largest island in the world has an extension of exactly 2,130,800 square kilometers, of which 85% of them are covered with ice.
Among other curiosities of this region, as the journalist Paco Nadal in El País recounts, in Greenland there is no right to own land, nor can roads be found that connect two inhabited nuclei . For this it is necessary to travel by sled, plane or boat.


In Hungary never toast with beer

Offering at celebrations or social gatherings is a very common custom in many countries. In general in all of them it is not well seen to bump the glasses with non-alcoholic drinks. But in Hungary it is also not toast with beers.
It is said that the motive dates back to 1848. At that time Hungary was trying unsuccessfully to become independent from the Austrian Empire. Every time they got a victory it was common to find the Austrians toasting with beer. The nationalist sentiment makes that in Hungary, toasting with beer still reminds of these past times and is not well received.


Europe has the town with the longest name in the world


It is in Wales and the name in question is, nothing more and nothing, less than Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Try saying it, it's really complicated, right? Such is the way the town's website even includes a section to tell us how to pronounce it.
Although to make things easier the town appears marked as Llanfairpwllgwyngyll and is known by the locals as Llanfairpwll or Llanfair. PG According to its history, collected on its own website , before acquiring this huge name, it was known as Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll, which in Welsh comes to say something like 'The church of Mary by the pond near the White Hazels'.
It was not until 1850 with the development of the railway that the name change took place. The people sought to become a benchmark that made travelers stop in it and thus help its development. It was then that in a local committee one of the members proposed the change of denomination. As has the bright idea to be attributed to a shoemaker in the region of Menai Bridge. Already at that time that man came up with a great marketing plan that remains to this day.


There are areas in Europe where the human being has not entered

These are the primary forests, virgin and wild forest extensions where ecological processes still follow a natural dynamic. It is hard to believe that man has never set foot inside, but as such, these primary forests are characterized by not showing signs of human activity in them.
This was commented in a press release, the ecologist of the University of Humboldt, Francesco Maria Sabatini, lead author of the research responsible for developing the first maps on the primary forests of Europe. A study that revealed, by the way, positive data, to discover that these forested regions are more frequent in the old continent than previously thought. The research was able to detect more than 13,759 kilometers in 34 European countries, a finding that was published in the Diversity & Distributions magazine in May 2018.