so i recently saw this map depicting the
top google auto complete results for
each country in europe with the results
for each of them and seeing how
i already answered them for a similar
map of the us a few years ago i
thought to myself hey why not do this
again
why does iceland have so many volcanoes
iceland is a volcanic island on the
converging point between the eurasian
and north american blades
so it's kind of similar to hawaii in a
way why does britain want to leave the
eu
well first off not all britons want to
leave the eu most notably scots and
londoners
but the reason for all the brexit talks
largely came down to the issues of
immigration the economy and national
identity
britain has always strongly identified
with its position as
not being quite attached to the rest of
europe so the uk has always had quite a
bit of an arm's length relation with the
other eu countries
there are hundreds of points and topics
to bring about this topic
though so next country why does ireland
have no snakes
because snakes don't live on this left
side driving island with a funny accent
they live on this left side driving
island with a funny accent no actually
snakes never lived in ireland and the
whole tale of how st patrick drove a
hold of snakes from ireland likely
refers to metaphorical snakes
i.e snakes was most likely being used in
a derogatory fashion
four like people why does the
netherlands have so many tulips
tula mania was an interesting thing you
see tulips are not native to the
netherlands
so when they were brought back the dutch
thought they were pretty nice
and so having tulip bulbs on display
became a sign of wealth
and then became a sign of broken
economies and now are assigned to the
netherlands
why does belgium exist i've been there
twice and i still can't tell you
why does norway have a low crime rate
that's actually a really interesting
thing to look into
as norway has a low recidivism rate but
famously has prisons based on
rehabilitation rather than punishment
it's not something that comes easily to
someone not from there which makes it
really interesting to learn more about
why does sweden hate norway because they
have a lower crime rate i don't know
culture i guess i mean oregon and
washington can't stand each other as is
why does finland have the best schools
in the world well it's not that finnish
schools give too little it's that
american schools give too much
i actually talked about this in a past
video why does russia support assad
yeah okay let's answer a less
controversial question why does russia
have koloningrad
before and during world war ii the area
of poland east of gdansk was also part
of germany just
separate from their old monster claw but
then germany lost world war ii and ceded
most of the land to newly created poland
as part of the potsdam conference but
the soviet union sliced up that area and
gave the northern half to itself
renaming it from kennesburg to
kaliningrad
why does estonia want to be nordic
estonia is culturally and linguistically
much closer to finland than their baltic
neighbors to south
and finland is already nordic country
why does latvia have fast internet
latvia lithuania and even moldova have
some of the fastest internet speeds in
the world
vastly surpassing the us one easy factor
for this
is how much bigger than those countries
the uss but that's also the only piece
of information i found telling me
why this is the case why does lithuania
have the highest death rate
well that certainly took a turn
unfortunately the three baltic countries
yes including eu estonia
all have a pretty high death rate
especially in suicide one of the biggest
causes in lithuania are likely due to
social and economic factors but vionios
is making this a big priority
why does belarus exist as in why is it
separate from russia
well belarus hasn't always aligned
itself with russia as it has largely
been under control and influence of the
polish lithuanian commonwealth back in
the day
and today their language is mostly
similar to russian but with some
non-russian undertones why does ukraine
want crimea
okay this is not going to be an easy
video basically in 2014
russia illegally annexed the crimean
peninsula from ukraine and in those
scenarios people aren't exactly willing
to share
why does poland known prussia because
germany was bad in the first part of the
20th century and being added to poland
apparently has its consequences now
why does denmark have high taxes the
nordic countries are famous for
providing many social services to their
citizens in exchange for a high tax rate
however looking into denmark's tax
policies they actually aren't insanely
high but
in some cases they can get somewhat high
why does germany have so many names
come on you remember history germany
right why does luxembourg exist powerful
houses holy roman empire disunited
central europe and i mean come on
someone needed to settle indiana
why does switzerland speak french
switzerland has four official languages
with the largest minority being the
german speakers but also with
significant portions who speak
french italian and vermont switzerland
is an interesting country since it was
basically formed as a protective
confederation between local kingdoms in
the 13th century
and linguistic minorities are most
strongly present near to the borders of
france and italy
why does france speak french really why
does andorra exist
basically andorra was a feudal state
under joint control of the leader of
france and the bishop of roger
and it kind of just stuck around until
today long after the fetal system was
abolished in 1993.
why does spain have a lisp there is a
claim that it's because there was a king
who spoke with lisp but that's not
actually true
there was a king who quote lisped a
little in the 14th century
but the lisp only started to propagate
200 years later
another claim is that it's more
convenient separating words like casa
from casa
or siento from siento why does portugal
exist
the iberian peninsula is not one
cohesive group of people but a messy
patchwork of different groups
not just spaniards and portuguese are
also catalonians and ellucians galicians
basks and castilians
which is also why spain has a hard time
keeping itself together sometimes
why does italy wear blue italian
football teams generally wear blue
shirts as a tribute to the royal houses
of savoy
who used to rule over italy its
neighboring regions its colonies and for
some reason armenia oh yeah and their
favorite color was blue
why does austria have a navy well i mean
it's an iowa nation and a rather large
one at that so it needs to protect
itself from it
okay okay couldn't have just let me have
the joke in all seriousness
just because the country is landlocked
doesn't mean it doesn't need a navy
however odd this may sound and austria
also sits on the danube river which
gives him access to north and black seas
as the river is considered an
international waterway why does slovenia
wear green
the idea of slovenian green is a tribute
to slovenia's mountains and forests and
natural beauty
even though green isn't on their face
but i mean seriously
how wealthy is slovenia how populous is
slovenia
how large is slovenia's economy the one
thing people never seem to bother to
really ask
is how is slovenia why does croatia have
all the coastline
bosnian herzegovina has only a tiny
coastline around the city of naom
giving it a second shortest coastline in
the world behind that of monaco
a lot of this had to do with the
ottomans and the habsburgs and basically
bosnian hearts could be now crystallized
as an ottoman province
and looking at this map you can probably
see what happened why does bosnia and
herzegovina have three presidents
bosnia herzegovina is basically a
mishmash of three smaller republics
including the federation of
bosnia-herzegovina the republic of
srpska and the birchgo district
also it's largely split into three main
ethnic groups that serbs croats and
bosnians who
don't always get along historically why
does serbia hate croatia
it's complicated seriously it's the
balkans this cannot be covered in a
couple seconds
why does montenegro have a spanish name
that's actually a pretty good question
since there's a town in costa rica
called montenegro the country's name
though they speak the slavic montenegrin
language actually comes from a romance
language
just not spanish it actually comes from
the venetian term for black mountain
why does kosovo want independence balkan
politics are never easy basically kosovo
and their largely albanian population
has not been treated very nicely under
yugoslavia and later serbia
why does macedonia want to be called
macedonia macedonia is a region in
northern greece
and just north of greece is the country
of macedonia which
sometimes goes under the name the former
yugoslav republic of macedonia or
fyrom as i like to call it basically
there's a strong connection to alexander
great here because it was cool and all
that why does albania want to join the
european union
unfortunately for them albania is a bit
of a ways off from actually joining the
eu as of yet
but it has been a candidate country
since 2000 but
yeah it's mostly economic and political
factors like with most eu applicants
why does greece have a bad economy
basically tax evasion lying about trade
deficits and investors demanding
impossibly high interest rates are not a
good combination for economic success
why does malta drive on the left because
of a british colony why does cyprus have
so many cats
basically the cat population has gotten
way out of whack especially with stray
and feral cats
why does turkey make you sleepy okay
let's search up a real question
why does turkey hate curds
oh god okay yeah uh
why does bulgaria not use the euro
bulgaria though fully fledged eu member
is not a member of schengen or the
eurozone
and instead uses their own currency the
bulgarian lev meaning
lion much like romania's lego basically
the main point for these questions is
that joining the eurozone is difficult
process
that not all eu countries can actually
do greece tried it without meeting all
the proper criteria first and that
didn't do them much good
why does romania have fast internet if
any american knew america would have
fast internet and i'm an american so i
don't know
i also kind of already answered this
question why does moldova exist
from 1918 to 1940 they were part of
romania but they didn't like it so they
decided to
not be part of romania why does hungary
not use the euro
hungary is their own currency the
foreign but it is likely that the
hungarian government will replace the
currency with the euro
sometime in the 2020s again certain
financial goals are in order
why does slovakia not recognize kosovo
that's a pretty random pair of countries
to pick there
slovakia has given a few hints that it
might change its stance on the issue in
a few years
but right now it remains one of the few
eu and nato members not to recognize
kosovo as a country
finally why does czechia not use the
euro
czechia will eventually adopt the euro
as its currency as soon as they again
meet all the requirements to join the
eurozone
for now though they used to check koruna
as their currency
so beware that if you're planning a trip
to prague anytime soon
so there you have it 43 countries and
why they do certain things
and why they are certain ways if you
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