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Netherlands · Countries & regions · Country profiles
The Netherlands is a low-lying country whose European territory borders Germany, Belgium and the North Sea. Its geography combines river deltas, coastal dunes, reclaimed polders and higher eastern…
Lake Salda · Geology · Map guides
Lake Salda is a closed-basin, alkaline lake in Burdur Province, southwestern Türkiye, known for its white mineral shoreline. Its magnesium-rich waters support unusual carbonate deposits associated with microbial…
Ebro River · Landforms · Map guides
The Ebro begins close to Spain’s northern coast but does not take the short route to the Bay of Biscay. Its course leads inland and southeast to the…
Lisbon · Landforms · Map guides
The river beside Lisbon has already crossed a large part of Spain before it reaches Portugal. Its changing name can hide that continuity: the Spanish Tajo, Portuguese Tejo…
Lisbon · Borders · Place guides
Lisbon is often pictured as a city of hills beside a vast expanse of water. Both impressions are useful, but neither tells the whole story. The water beside…
Portugal · Borders · Map guides
One river from Spain to the AtlanticThe Douro and Duero are the same river: Douro is its Portuguese name and Duero its Spanish name. It rises in Spain,…
Volga River · Lakes · Map guides
Where does the Volga River flow?The Volga flows through European Russia from the Valdai Hills to the Caspian Sea. About 2,193 miles (3,530 kilometers) long, it is Europe's…
Czechia · Cities & capitals · Map guides
The Elbe connects Czech mountain headwaters with a German tidal estuary, but its geography is easy to misread. Prague belongs to its wider river system without standing on…
Seine River · Landforms · Map guides
Paris is the Seine’s most familiar setting, but it is only one part of a much larger river system. Upstream lie the Burgundy headwaters and tributary valleys; downstream,…
Baku · Cities & capitals · Map guides
Baku is easy to recognize in a skyline photograph, but harder to understand from a single city pin. Azerbaijan’s capital occupies the southern side of a peninsula, faces…
Istanbul · Cities & capitals · Map guides
Istanbul is easier to understand once you stop treating every stretch of water as the same boundary. The Bosporus separates the city's European and Asian sides. The Golden…
Vistula River · Cities & capitals · Map guides
The Vistula links Poland’s southern mountains with its Baltic coast, but it does not run north in a straight line. Following its bends explains why Kraków, Warsaw and…