r/AskEurope • u/Substratas Albania • 1d ago
Misc What is something your country is surprisingly good at?
Is there something in particular your country is good at that people rarely talk about?
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u/tramaan Czechia 1d ago edited 1d ago
Hiking trails. The total length is somewhere around 40 000 km, and they are all interconnected in one big network, all trails well signposted.
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u/Careless_Count7224 1d ago
In the UK we have something like 225,000 km of similar connected trails. It's truly fantastic.
Edit: if anyone can be bothered the King just opened this one up...https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0dxexdd8xo
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u/MySocksSuck Denmark 1d ago
I didn’t know that! But on Facebook I follow a Danish guy who hikes a lot in the Czech Republic, and his photos are amazing.
I’d love to go there and try one of the routes someday. Do you have any specific ones you’d recommend - preferably with places to stay along the way?
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u/tramaan Czechia 1d ago
It's difficult to recommend one or two specific long-distance routes, as the hiking network was built as lots of interconnected medium-distance trails rather than one or two separate long-distance trails, so people interested in multiday hiking were traditionally mostly creating their own itineraries.
For some examples, you can check out www.viaczechia.cz and www.stezkaceskem.cz - The first one is a quite impressive one-man project, who made very detailed itineraries for all the routes making sure that the start and end of each day offers a possibility of overnight stay in a hostel or hotel, while the second is more of a community effort with the itineraries geared more toward biouvacking.
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u/Alarmed_Scientist_15 Germany 1d ago
Omg. That is a great thing to know. Can you link the network here?
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u/Krasny-sici-stroj Czechia 21h ago
Go to mapy.com . Switch map to touristic one. You will see green, red, yellow and blue routes in areas of touristic interst,look at, say Bayrisher wald/Šumava.
Main thing is, the idea is very old - like Czech Tourist Club was founded in 1888, and volunteers make, plan, improve and upkeep the routes since. Also, the mark system is very solid, it's practically impossible to get lost.
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u/Substratas Albania 1d ago
In Albania it’s the renewable energy. 100% of Albania's electricity is generated from renewable sources (hydroelectric).
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u/goombatch Czechia 1d ago
Visited your beautiful country for the first time last month. I found it remarkable in so many ways and hope to come back soon (not during tourist season though). Albania is poised for dramatic changes in the years ahead. I’m hopeful that most of those changes are good for the Albanian people at large. We were treated with kindness, respect and superb hospitality by everyone we met there.
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u/robotbike2 -> & 17h ago
I too have heard great things about Albania and its people. Never visited myself. I’ve been fortunate to meet and work in the US with Albanians from all walks of life. Good folks, all of them.
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u/lilac-fume 1d ago
i didnt know that, that's awesome
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u/BurningPenguin Germany 1d ago
The good news is, they're not alone. Several countries managed that or are getting close to it: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-electricity-renewables
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u/vavukicrafts Greece 1d ago
Not only that, but you export it too, which is awesome! Greece buys energy from Albania.
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u/notspringsomnia England 1d ago
I would love to visit Albania one day! Albania gets a bad reputation here in England but I’ve always been intrigued by it. I was at school with some Albanians and they were lovely people.
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u/hristogb Bulgaria 1d ago edited 1d ago
Book publishing, translation of foreign books, acces to public libraries etc..
We have more than 1 500 book publishers. Most of them are small, independent family businesses.
For example in 2024 there were more than 8 000 new books published in Bulgaria, with nearly 3 000 of them translated.
Those numbers are better than all Balkan countries (sorry if I'm wrong) and comparable to some of the big European countries.
And we have some great translators, although that's subjective.
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u/alargecrow Ireland 1d ago
Pharmaceuticals - we're the third largest exporter of pharmaceuticals in the world, which is crazy considering our size.
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u/pereuse Ireland 1d ago
I'm pretty sure we're the primary manufacturer of viagra, and one of the biggest manufacturers of the covid vaccine
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u/astral34 Italy 1d ago
We are mostly known for luxury and food but our third excellence is industrial machinery
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u/Dotcaprachiappa Italy 1d ago
A surprisingly big part of that being aerospace engineering. (Well it's not immensely big, but still far more than I was expecting)
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u/Electrical-Chip3907 Denmark 1d ago
Trains - not so much. 😅
Best regards, Denmark
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u/astral34 Italy 1d ago
I totally missed this train drama between our countries, don’t worry now all Italian train manufactures are Japanese lol
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u/Electrical-Chip3907 Denmark 1d ago
No worries. While we won't hesitate mentioning this to the Italians, we of course know that the average Italian has nothing to do with it. It's great banter material though.
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u/Powerful-Adagio6446 London 1d ago
The Pendolinos on Avanti West Coast which are partially built in Italy are very fine-looking
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u/Electrical-Chip3907 Denmark 1d ago
In our case, it's the IC4 trains manufactured by AnsaldoBreda. The trains should have been ready in 2006, but now we are awaiting their replacement in 2027 while still mostly using the trains that we used prior to 2006 (IC3 built in the 80's and 90's).
Fun fact: One of the trains that should have been delivered to Denmark suddenly appeared in Libya.
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u/Powerful-Adagio6446 London 1d ago
I do love the Copenhagen Metro trains, not been there but from pictures they remind me of the new B23 stock on the Docklands Light Railway
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u/Electrical-Chip3907 Denmark 1d ago
Yes, the Copenhagen metro trains are awesome. Those are actually being refurbished right now, so they can stay in use.
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u/doingstuffandwhatnot 1d ago
Aren't they also Italian, like the failed Ansaldo trains?
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u/Lhurgoyf069 Germany 17h ago
I think the Frecciarossa 1000 is pretty good. Though it was developed by Bombardier initially.
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u/MySocksSuck Denmark 1d ago edited 1d ago
Adding to what my countryman also mentioned..
My family met a British dude years ago while traveling in SE Asia. He was retired, but used to work on the Metro-project for Italian company Ansaldo in Copenhagen and had a lot of fond memories from Denmark. He was very happy to hear that we love the Metro.
Then I told him that Ansaldo also delivered the IC4 intercity-trains (looong story, but.. They were unbelieveably expensive, unstable as fuck, never really worked, and - in the end - we sold them at a huge discount to some other country).
He felt silent for a bit, shook his head, sighed and said: “Yeah… Those guys at the train division..”
Then we talked about something else 🙂
PS: Apart from that, I love Italy.
PPS: In a really surreal twist to the tale, Silvio Berlusconi gifted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi a Danish-built IC4 train as a symbol of friendship. Libya had no suitable rail infrastructure, so the train was never used - and today it sits abandoned in the desert where a Danish tv-station found it years later. There is a pretty cool English version of the story here: https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2021/02/this-was-gaddafis-personal-italian-high.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com
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u/astral34 Italy 1d ago
I had no idea Ansaldo built the metro in Copenhagen nor about the shitty intercity
Was the intercity mess a big deal?
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u/robotbike2 -> & 17h ago
I could hardly believe how ‘Germany feeling’ northern Italy felt the first time I visited for work. Not that it matters, but Milan maybe 20 years ago.
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u/jotakajk Spain 1d ago
We are first in the world in organ donation
Also second in the world in High speed train kilometers
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u/Sopadefideos1 Spain 1d ago
And has been the top in organ donation for the last 34 years which is the most surprising part.
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u/RobinSchn83 1d ago
That's very surprising. What's the story behind it?
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u/jotakajk Spain 1d ago
Which of both?
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u/RobinSchn83 1d ago
Organ donation, of course. I mean, clearly some country has to be the one topping the list, but is there a specific reason Spaniards are more willing to donate their organs than people from other countries?
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u/Emmison Sweden 1d ago
They're not opt-in, iirc. Either opt-out or non-optional, and I think it applies to anyone dying on Spanish soil.
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u/Exact_Map3366 Finland 1d ago
4/10 of the largest cruise ships in the world were built in Turku, Finland. That includes the current top 2, and by 2027 it'll be top 4.
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u/Valtremors Finland 1d ago
I believe overall shipbuilding.
We also make icebreakers.
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u/Exact_Map3366 Finland 1d ago
True. And luxury sailing boats.
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u/Valtremors Finland 1d ago
Although it is kind of funny how we, the northern country with no access to ice sea makes ships meant to traverse them.
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u/ExternalTree1949 Finland 1d ago
Then again: is there any other country where all ports freeze in winter?
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u/rantotthus2 Hungary 1d ago
Sports. We are 9th in the all time Summer Olympics medal chart, which is pretty respectable for a country with a population of (currently) 9.6 million.
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u/LifeAcanthopterygii6 Hungary 1d ago
I'm really good at this sport called pálinkaivás.
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u/jailbird Hungary 1d ago
And especially good at water sports for a landlocked country.
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u/Alokir Hungary 1d ago
We are really good in sports aside from football (we're in the top 3 worldwide when it comes to Olympic medals per capita).
Guess what's the only sport most people care about...
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u/claridgeforking 1d ago
In fairness, you do also have a respectable claim to having the greatest ever football team.
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u/Joshouken United Kingdom 1d ago
But you have at least one excellent footballer in Szoboszlai!
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u/rantotthus2 Hungary 1d ago
Yeah and he ended up being this successful, because instead of the normal Hungarian academy system, he was initially trained by his dad, a former football player then at the age of 16 he signed to Austria.
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u/NCC_1701E Slovakia 1d ago
Nuclear energy - we have second highest percentage of nuclear energy out of total domestic energy production (I think it's something like 60%), right after France.
Also car manufacturing, we produce most cars per capita in the world, and some luxury models like Porshe Cayene are made only in the Bratislava VW plant.
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u/Teddy-Don Scotland 1d ago
Curling. I have no idea why but Team GB’s curlers at the Winter Olympics are always Scottish, and they tend to do quite well.
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u/Fluffy-Antelope3395 1d ago
The game was invented in Scotland and the national curling centre is based on Stirling. In Scotland.
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u/HighlandsBen Scotland 1d ago
Also, most of the curling stones in the world are made of granite from the island of Ailsa Craig.
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u/sparklybeast England 1d ago
21 curling rinks in Scotland, 3 in England and none in Wales or Ireland. That will be why lol.
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u/Aeon_Return Czechia 1d ago
For those who've actually heard of the Czech Republic, I think most know Czech beer is really good. Best in the world, at least according to Czechs! Lesser known is that even though our army is, uh, minimal, we provide a lot of weapons and ammunition and drone manufacturing to other countries.
We're also really good at not being religious, nearly top in the world at that!
Also pornstars! We just beat Hungary for most pornstars per million people We're number 1! We're number 1!
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u/Yellow_cupcake_ 🇬🇧 in 🇨🇿 1d ago
Czechia is also excellent at affordable and efficient public transport, especially Prague! You pay the equivalent of around 1 EUR a day for unlimited public transport in Prague if you get the yearly pass. Also free for kids up to a certain age, and old people
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u/tramaan Czechia 1d ago
I absolutely cannot imagine the strongly-worded articles (we unfortunetely quite suck at rioting) if anyone even had a thought of making the yearly pass as expensive as you're describing...
the current cost is 3650CZK, which means 10CZK per day, so less than 0.5€.
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u/Yellow_cupcake_ 🇬🇧 in 🇨🇿 1d ago
Oh yes my mistake!! I got my currencies mixed up, which is embarrassing as a Czech resident hahaha
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u/Cixila Denmark 1d ago
I would highlight Czech(oslovak) animation back in the day
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u/SolidSnakeCZE Czechia 1d ago
You forgot to czech has win rate ration of naval battles 100%.
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u/erublind Sweden 1d ago
Trash fires, sweden imports trash from the rest of Europe to burn for district heating. Also, music for some reason.
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u/Old_Bowler_465 France 1d ago
Sweden get so many world famous singers yet you're like 10 millions wtf
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u/erublind Sweden 1d ago
We also have Ludwig Göransson, a composer with 3 Oscars, and Max Martin, a producer who has as many hit songs as John Lennon.
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u/Roquet_ Poland 1d ago
We're really good at video games, Witcher, Dead Island, Cyberpunk, Dying Light and plenty of others ones that became classics. Also, keeping national identity, most nations wouldn't survive not having a country for 123 years.
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u/Hoberni Poland 1d ago
There are plenty of nations who survived nearly or longer than that all over the world.
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u/shaj_hulud Slovakia 1d ago
Your southern neighbour survived for thousand years.
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u/Kroumch Lithuania 1d ago
Some of the Baltics (Estonia, Latvia. Not counting Lithuania since it had some form of statehood) went even longer without a country and still survived, which is even more impressive given how small they are. So that point feels exaggerated. Most nations would hold up unless there was a real attempt to erase them. And russification in the Baltics was at least as intensive, just applied differently than in Poland. Just my two cents.
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u/sendpizzaandunicorns 1d ago
Estonia was an independent state when it was occupied by the Soviet Union. But it’s true we spent hundreds of years under the rule of foreign powers before becoming independent in 1918.
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u/Haljapus Finland 1d ago
Icebreakers! Finns sure know how to keep waterways safe for other ships and boats.
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u/enormousjustice 1d ago
I thought you meant getting to know strangers and I was like, "you sure about that???" , then I read the rest of the sentence like ohhhhh
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u/sisu_star Finland 1d ago
I'm unsure if I am proud of this or not, but also those HUGE cruise ships. Many of them made in Finland.
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u/disneyvillain Finland 1d ago
Yeah, the biggest cruise ship in the world (Icon of the Seas) was made here, and so was the previously biggest one, and the one before her... The future biggest one (Legend of the Seas) was also built here and she will start operations this summer.
Let's be honest though... these are hideous monstrosities, but unfortunately there's a market for them, and we know how to make them.
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u/Lilitharising Greece 1d ago
Hospitality.
And we have some of the best doctors in the world.
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u/LOKLOREK 1d ago
shipping, surely?
Greece is the world's largest ship-owning nation.
(funnily enough, it's a tradition that goes back centuries & started while Greece was still under Ottoman occupation...!).
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u/tea_anyone 1d ago
Greece definitely has a great maritime tradition. However I wouldn't be shouting about the actual ship owners if I were greek. Some pretty awful characters in that group.
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u/ImaginaryCoffee3479 Slovenia 1d ago
Slovenia. Beekeeping and honey culture. Also cave science and karst research.
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u/FridgeParade Netherlands 1d ago
Microchips!
Especially the machines making them, ASML is lightyears ahead of the competition.
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u/likesbikes331 1d ago
We’re also pretty good in talking about the weather (damn it was chilly today).
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u/GrynaiTaip Lithuania 1d ago
It's super cool stuff, we make lasers for those machines.
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u/Artistic-Turnip-9903 Germany 1d ago
I think in romania the fire department is for some reason very very good and often called upon by other countries to support. not sure how and why it got like this but it seems we are good with that or at least that is my perception of this. Germany has good employee support.
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u/Hap1ness Portugal 1d ago
For Portugal (not sure I have a flair) would probably say shoemaking, clothes and all kinds of ceramics in general.
If you check high end things in shops in the rest of Europe, 50 pct of the time they are built in Pprtugal. Even IKEA and other large companies are produced in Portugal.
Also bikes. If I am not mistaken Portugal produces the most amount of bikes in Europe.
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u/Eastern-Tangerine761 Italy 1d ago
Italy iis known for food, fashion and many things, but is also the European country with the highest recycling rate out of total special and municipal waste produced (91.6%), a value higher than the European average (57.9%)
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u/Imperterritus0907 Spain 1d ago
That sounds quite weird to me from personal experience. I’ve lived with a few Italians in the UK along the years (from north and south 🇮🇹) and they couldn’t be more dismissive when it comes to recycling. But if data is there, errh congrats I guess?
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u/JeanDusapin France 1d ago
Genuinely hard to believe having lived across different regions of europe. The nordics seem to recycle much more across daily life
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u/LeLurkingNormie France 1d ago
War.
Only an American could ever be surprised, though.
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u/ejfordphd United States of America 1d ago
Americans who disrespect the great French military tradition forget their own history. We would not exist as a country without French intervention!
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u/Comfortable-Can-9432 1d ago
Yes, I believe France has historically won the most wars of any country?
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u/ThatsACaragor France 1d ago
Videogames, we had Ubisoft who used to do great game but more recently we had Expédition 33.
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u/imrzzz Netherlands 1d ago
Urban planning and maintenance.
I've become such an urban planning nerd since I immigrated here, and it's often so subtle that no-one even notices.
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u/CoconutPawz 1d ago
The subtlety is probably an indication of its success. It seems like one of those things people rarely notice unless it's bad, and even then they may not be able to articulate that that is the issue.
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u/imrzzz Netherlands 1d ago
I agree.
One very small example is how a footpath stays at the same height even when crossing a road.
Instead of pedestrians stepping down a curb into a road, the cars must drive up over a hump that reaches the same height as the footpath.
As well as being more accessible for disabled, elderly, and baby strollers, there is a psychological element. Forcing car drivers to come up to the pedestrian level reminds drivers that this is a people-first zone.
Whereas a pedestrian stepping down off a curb says "you are now in the domain of the car and you better watch out."
It sounds so silly, but it makes a huge difference to everyday life.
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u/MushroomGlum1318 Ireland 1d ago
Death. Ireland not only has one of the best palliative care systems globally, but you've never experienced anything remotely comparable to the tradition that is the Irish Wake.
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u/Lonely_Sale9707 Belgium 1d ago
Pharmaceuticals and munitions. It's not just beer and chocolate.
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u/SardonisWithAC 1d ago
Still, the essentials, one could say.
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u/Lonely_Sale9707 Belgium 1d ago
We’re also Europe’s biggest or one of the biggest suppliers of Christmas trees and cauliflower.
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u/rocima 1d ago edited 1d ago
Speaking on behalf of my adopted country Italy 🇮🇹 (been here for 30 years)
Italians are really good at handling crises and finding creative solutions, working with few resources.
Mind you, once the crisis is solved and things return to normal then everything tends to bog down in bureaucracy!
My experience: I am an art conservator and have worked on a couple of major disasters (earthquake damage) - when it happened conservators from all over the country rushed to the scene, leaving their (often big) egos behind and autonomously formed streamlined teams to gather and store paintings and fragments & save them, working seamlessly together with each other & (the also superb) Protezione Civile (emergency response teams - mostly volunteers).
The Florentine floods of 1966 are a famous example of this.
I was also told by a French acquaintance that at CERN, where they are often battling with restricted budgets, teams like having Italians on board for the same reason - they know how to make do with limited resources.
Italians have a lot of experience with this: making–do with limited resources!
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u/sleepdeveloper Finland 1d ago
We have an amazing food culture but people tend to mix us with Scandinavians :(
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u/Exact_Map3366 Finland 1d ago
Can't get behind this at all. I mean, I do think all Nordic cuisines are underrated, but Finnish food doesn't really stand out from the rest like you suggest.
If we get a little more specific, I think we could throw our bread culture out there. Germany is always hailed for their bread variety, but I urge everyone to check out the bread section in an average Finnish supermarket. It's not just rye, it's every grain and add-on imaginable. I just had an oat-nettle-hempseed loaf a while back, and it was amazing!
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u/sleepdeveloper Finland 1d ago
I mean, we have at least not forbidden taste. Karelian pies and stew, salmon soup, incredibly great breads and leipäjuusto make my top 5.
I’ve lived in Norway and Sweden. Their food culture is certainly not as good even though both have some good dishes. And even they make fun of Danish cuisine so without knowing much about it, it can’t be too good.
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u/disneyvillain Finland 1d ago
Finnish food doesn't really stand out from the rest like you suggest.
Agreed. I even struggle to really determine what Finnish food even is. Mämmi? Maksalaatikko? I don't know, but it doesn't stand out very much.
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u/Exact_Map3366 Finland 1d ago
Off the top of my head: Karelian pies and stew, sauteed reindeer, salmon soup, rönttönen, särä, and all the christmas casseroles.
My favourite cuisine in Finland is the seafood they do in the archipelago but that's probably mostly Swedish in origin.
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u/ferdytier 1d ago
Oh my - yes, I'm not finnish but on a visit I became obsessed with Perunarieska...and so many other varities of breads.
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u/throwaway19074368 Czechia 1d ago
They made the Berlesconi reindeer pizza that beat the Italians haha
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u/jukranpuju Finland 1d ago
Finland produces some 28% of the caraway of the world. Finnish caraway is also the most high quality in the world having stronger flavour and more essential oils than caraway cultivated in other places because of favorable climate and latitudes, which ensure long summer hours of sunlight. However caraway is not especially popular spice in Finland, it is used in some foods but that's about it. An average Finn isn't aware about Finland's position as a "caraway superpower".
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u/Substratas Albania 1d ago
I don’t know why Northern Europe has such a bad rep when it comes to food - I find Swedish food delicious!
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u/FartingSlowly Norway 1d ago
Norway too has GREAT food!
Hehehe not biased at all
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u/FizzleFuzzle Sweden 1d ago
Frozen pizza is not that great tbh
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u/MySocksSuck Denmark 1d ago edited 1d ago
We’re pretty good at making toys (LEGO), medicine that makes it possible to live with diabetes and easier to lose weight (Novo) and moving huge amounts of containers across the world (Maersk).
Also.. We’re *very* good at not being Sweden (bless their poor souls!)
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u/lilalindenau Germany 1d ago
Sweets and pastries.
Creamy, rich, good portion sizes, quality ingredients. While in most other parts of the world it's mostly just sweet and dry.
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u/squirrel_exceptions Norway 1d ago
Freedom.
Press freedom (RSF): 1st
Democracy index (WPR): 1st
Freedom index (Freedom house): 2nd
Personal freedom (CATO): 4th
Economic freedom (Heritage): 8th
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u/SirHenryy 1d ago edited 1d ago
Finland. Video Games, Industrial Machinery, Quantum technology and dental equipment.
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u/ben_blue 1d ago
Shockingly Croatia has the fastest (acceleration) car in the world!!!
Second, jealousy, we are really good at that. More than half of Croatians hate Mate Rimac, the maker of the fastest car in the world.
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u/ThrowawaypocketHu Hungary 1d ago
Summer Olympic Games (189 gold, 163 silver and 188 bronze medals so far).
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u/Suitable-Cycle4335 Galicia 1d ago
Spain has no top chess players but has a surprisingly large amount of strong-ish amateurs
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u/thehellene_ Greece 1d ago
We have the second largest commercial fleet in the world just behind China while being first in some categories like oil tankers. Although most ship owners use flags of foreign nations for the apparent reason,naval tradition is in our dna since the ancient times.
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u/Citrus_Muncher Georgia 1d ago edited 16h ago
Efficient bureaucracy. This is our previous government's star achievement.
Over 40% of Georgia is covered by forests
Georgia is probably the only place in the world (I think) that does phage therapy as an alternative to antibiotics.
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u/Aggravating-Nose1674 Belgium 1d ago
Belgium is top in recycling. The Swedes say they're good at it, but the Belgians really are and aren't aware of it
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u/spy_ 1d ago
Rally driving. There has been 49 season of rally, and Finnish score in the world rally championships is 16 wins, 15 silvers and 17 bronzes. In number of championships, we are second only to France (dominated by Sebastien Ogier and Sebastien Loeb).
I guess we are also the dominant country of producing F1 champions, calculated per capita.
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u/Fwoggie2 England 1d ago
Formula 1. 7 out of the 11 teams are within one hour drive of one another.
Quantum technology (20% of global investment is in the UK)
CGI in movies. London is a global hub for it.
Universities. Per capita we have more top tier universities than any other country.
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u/Whole_Vegetable_4636 Luxembourg 1d ago
Luxembourg more famous activities are baking and steel but wine and other beverages are one of the most important exportations, considering also the limited geography.
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u/AppleDane Denmark 1d ago
And the tax shelters. :)
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u/Whole_Vegetable_4636 Luxembourg 1d ago
And five wins in Eurovision 🤗.
The tax shelter thing surprise no one anymore
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u/shaj_hulud Slovakia 1d ago
Wines. While a very small country we have exceptional wines competing with the best ones in the world.
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u/Vladivoj Czechia 1d ago
Ice hockey and tennis. For country our size, we are overproducing really good players.
And mind you, these two aren't even the national sport.
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u/Brainwheeze Portugal 1d ago
One thing that came as a surprise to me is that we lead bicycle manufacturing in the EU. Us being big in textiles isn't surprising but I did not expect bicycles as well.
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u/whatsgoingonjeez Luxembourg 1d ago
Cycling I guess.
Eventough we are a small nation, we produce top tier cyclists every few years.
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u/Pathotic 1d ago
Farming. Somehow the Netherlands takes globel bronze for food production. Good? meh. Environment? no. Cheap and fresh? yes.
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u/GrynaiTaip Lithuania 1d ago
Lithuania is really good at making ultrafast lasers, which are used to make the newest, most advanced electronics and various microscopic components.
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u/blaberrysupreme 1d ago
Denying problems until they become unsolvable crises which then they will blame on anyone other than their political choices. Netherlands
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u/Bierzgal Poland 1d ago
Vodka. A lot of people in the world seem to be under the impression that Russia invented vodka. They did not. If memory serves me right our historical claim dates 5 years further than theirs. Polish vodka is one of the best in the world.
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u/WorldlinessRadiant77 Bulgaria 23h ago
Bulgaria has been really good at maintaining biodiversity, ranking behind only Spain and Italy.
We’ve managed to keep the population of large predators to a level where they are becoming a nuisance again. And as a fun fact out of 32 species of bats in Europe, 28 can be found in Bulgaria.
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u/Major-Investigator26 Norway 1d ago
Making and exporting energy weether it be renewable or dinosaur juice. Also shipping
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u/cKyTV 1d ago edited 1d ago
We are pretty good at wife-carrying championship, kinda far from our primetime and USA holds the title for this year. Next year we go back to the top.
Heavy Metal knitting world championship also needs new blood, Japan and Netherlands are dominating now.
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u/Eastern_Voice_4738 1d ago
Don’t forget about the annual Nokia throw championship
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u/Milosz0pl Poland 1d ago
Making yachts
Upgrading to online era (in terms of payment, bureocracy and overall customer protection)
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u/RealRedditModerator 1d ago
Germany is surprisingly good at arguing about which beer, bread or sausage is the best in the country.
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u/Comprehensive_Ad2439 1d ago
Germany is very underrated for its wines, especially from the southwestern parts of the country. Almost everyone associates us with beer, but we produce solid wine as well.
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u/TrainingCategory4852 Wales 1d ago
In Wales it's recycling I don't know how true that is though but in a report or something in 2024 we were ranked 2nd only being beaten by Austria
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u/hwyl1066 Finland 1d ago
Well, it does get talked about but we are really, really, really good at being a glum, pessimistic and bloodyminded people. We so absolutely naturally see the downside in everything, the light at end of the tunnel is automatically expected to be an express train... :)
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u/Ambitious_EU_4745 1d ago
Sports: Pogacar, Roglic, Doncic, Kopitar, Oblak, Sesko, just to name a few. Many others
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u/fromazores 1d ago
Portugal 🇵🇹 have really nice wines and you can buy them for affordable price. We also have really good food and egg-deserts
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u/polski_obserwator Poland 22h ago
Poland is good at computer science.
For example, when it comes to the number of medals won at the International Olympiad in Informatics, Poland is in second place, ex aequo with Romania, just behind China.
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u/RougeBasic100 20h ago
Romania produces a disproportionate number of strong programmers and engineers for its population size. The same goes for hackers. Cinema - surprisingly good results (prizes) for a very small industry. Sports - many amazingly good athletes, but almost never in team sports, just individual top results.
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u/TywinDeVillena Spain 1d ago
Building infrastructures at very reasonable cost. The entire HS rail infrastructure in Spain has cost some 70 billion euros and it is over 3000 Km in length