Although produces most of North Europe's poultry, pork, dairy, 90 percent of its economy consists of services and high-tech manufacturing, and fisheries
The largest of the "low" countries, reclaimed land from the sea, commercial flower beds, windmills, major world ports, e.g., Rotterdam
An exclave, although actually part of Russia; situated along the Baltic Sea; Russia's Baltic fleet is headquartered here with its relatively ice-free port
England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland; mild climate; old industrial heartland; English is the lingua franca; technological industries in Silicon Vale; leader of the Industrial Revolution in early eighteenth century; in nineteenth century the Empire covered nearly a quarter of the world's land surface
Part of the Ottoman empire before WWII, part of NATO and the EU; always one of the poorer countries of Europe and spent more than it took in
In Europe usually means giving up the home culture and adopting the ways of the new country
Agreement that allows free movement of people and goods across common borders
Characterized by privately owned businesses and industrial firms that adjust prices and output to match the demands of the market
Densely populated, well-located for trade, international trade at heart of their economies; called the "low countries," coastal location and great port cities
Fine food, fashion, and tourism; Atlantic to the north and west, Mediterranean beaches to the south; THE leading tourist destination on Earth; trade volume is sixth largest in the world; shape is an irregular hexagon
Part of northern Europe, low elevation, glacier lakes, forests, information technology, e.g., Nokia, discovery of gas and oil under North Sea a windfall; one of Europe's wealthiest countries and ranks highest in the world in human well-being
"Bad boys of Europe"; North is industrialized, Ferrari automobiles, South is agricultural; inefficient bureaucracy, high tax rates, inadequate infrastructure, and corruption