Euro Trivia quiz #11 - Know Your Bordering Countries?
 

today's trivial trivia quiz about Europe:

1- The Schengen Accords name of Schengen represents a town where three European countries all border each other.

What three countries are there and which country is Schengen in?

2- Of all EU countries which one borders the most other European countries?

3- What EU country has the most borders with other countries?

4- Which EU countries have no external borders or only one?

The first correct answer wins 10 Spanish pesetas - plus shipping and handling, of course.

CORRECTION: # 2

Oops - #2 should be Of all EU countries which one borders the most other EU countries?

Border Collie

Is like the question about Venn diagrams only needing 4 colours?

Schengen is in Luxembourg where Luxembourg, France and Germany meet.

Austria borders seven other countries

Germany borders nine, eight of which are EU members.

No land borders: Malta
Only one neighbour: Portugal, Ireland, UK if we're only looking at the British Isles, Cyprus, Denmark

Isabel and quokka got it all right - they sahre the ten pesetas if they pay the handling and postage fee of $45 p.p.

#2
Germany borders 9 countries, 8 of them EU member states.

#4
No external borders: Malta, Cyprus
Just one: UK, ROI, Denmark, Portugal

I don't think the UK and Denmark can claim only one border any more.

Cyprus:
any Greek Cypriot would tell you that Cyprus has no land borders because the Northern part of the Island is illegally occupied by Turkish troups who created a so called Turkish Republic of North Cyprus, Republic which would get bankrupt tomorrow if it wouldn't continously be financed by Turkey and which is recognized by nobody except the Turkish envader.
He would continue that a territory which is recognized by nobody cannot be a State and can therefore not have borders, but only a demarcation line in the best case.
BTW: that's why South Cypriot officials never stamp a passport at the Green line checkpoints.

ah soon to be I hear a borderless Europe - a Europe in more than name but a Unified Europe with its capital in say Luxembourg or some tiny country.

You've been listening to too much UKIP or reading too much Daily Express PalenQ.

Germany borders nine, eight of which are EU members.>>

we used to have to recite the nine countries bordering Germany in german lessons at school, in the days when it was Czechoslovakia.

"ah soon to be I hear a borderless Europe"

Not a snowball's chance in Hell.

Like fences, stout borders make for good neighbours.

flanner has a point that the UK and Denmark can now claim to have two borders - since the Eurotunnel and the Öresund bridge have been completed, respectively.

Cyprus is only one country - as neckervd explained. When a border is not recognized, it is no border but just a demarcation line with checkpoints. Also the EU considers North Cypriots as EU citizens.
Obviously, this non-border looks and feel much more like a real border between, for example, Germany and France.
Within the Schengen area, borders have become irrelevant since the checkpoints got vacated. Furthermore many communities on each of former borders now share facilities and services transit systems, police, etc.