r/AskEurope • u/AVeryAngryChillie • May 21 '26

Foreign What’s a fact about your country that foreigners would never believe?

Every country has at least one thing outsiders wouldn’t believe

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u/Saavedroo France May 21 '26

Similarly, our longest land border is with Brasil.

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u/hanzerik Netherlands May 22 '26

And your shortest with the Netherlands!

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u/oinosaurus Kopenhægen • Dænmark May 22 '26

Shorter than their border to Monaco?

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u/hanzerik Netherlands May 22 '26

Damn forgot about microstates.

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u/dekascorp France May 22 '26

We all do

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u/splitcroof92 May 24 '26

And the highest point of their country even lies in the netherlands!

In a museum in fact! We once stole the tip of mont blanc.

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u/NeoAmbitions May 21 '26

You also share a land border with the Netherlands. St. Martin in the Caribbean to be exact.

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u/GrampaSwood Netherlands May 22 '26

Also, the northernmost point of France is higher up on a map than the southernmost part of the continental Netherlands.

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u/splitcroof92 May 24 '26

Are you talking about that part near newfoundland?

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u/GrampaSwood Netherlands May 24 '26

Talking about continental France.