List of neighboring European countries
The list of European neighbors are for all 47 States of Europe to know how many and which countries they land borders are adjacent.
Both historically and today, in Europe as well, political , economic and cultural relationships in directly neighboring countries are on the one hand more intensive and more closely intertwined, on the other hand the risks for conflicts and disputes are higher and more diverse than in indirectly neighboring or more distant states.
Countries neighboring European countries by alphabet
- Albania : Greece , North Macedonia , Montenegro , Kosovo
- Andorra : France , Spain
- Belgium : Germany , France , Luxembourg , Netherlands
- Bosnia and Herzegovina : Croatia , Montenegro , Serbia
- Bulgaria : Greece , North Macedonia , Romania , Serbia , Turkey
- Denmark : Germany , bridge to Sweden
- Germany : Belgium , Denmark , France , Luxembourg , Netherlands , Austria , Poland , Switzerland , Czech Republic
- Estonia : Latvia , Russia
- Finland : Norway , Russia , Sweden
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France : Andorra , Belgium , Germany , Italy , Luxembourg , Monaco , Switzerland , Spain .
Outside Europe: Brazil and Suriname through French Guiana in South America and the Netherlands through Saint Martin in the Caribbean - Greece : Albania , Bulgaria , North Macedonia , Turkey
- Ireland : United Kingdom (through Northern Ireland )
- Iceland (island)
- Italy : France , Austria , San Marino , Switzerland , Slovenia , Vatican City
- Kosovo : Albania , North Macedonia , Serbia , Montenegro
- Croatia : Bosnia and Herzegovina , Montenegro , Slovenia , Serbia , Hungary
- Latvia : Estonia , Lithuania , Russia , Belarus
- Liechtenstein : Austria , Switzerland
- Lithuania : Latvia , Poland , Russia , Belarus
- Luxembourg : Belgium , Germany , France
- Malta (island)
- Moldova : Romania , Ukraine
- Monaco : France
- Montenegro : Albania , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Kosovo , Croatia , Serbia
- Netherlands : Belgium , Germany . Outside Europe: France (through Sint Maarten in the Caribbean )
- North Macedonia : Albania , Bulgaria , Greece , Kosovo , Serbia
- Norway : Finland , Russia , Sweden
- Austria : Germany , Italy , Liechtenstein , Switzerland , Slovakia , Slovenia , Czech Republic , Hungary
- Poland : Germany , Lithuania , Russia , Slovakia , Czech Republic , Ukraine , Belarus
- Portugal : Spain
- Romania : Bulgaria , Moldova , Serbia , Ukraine , Hungary
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Russia : European neighbors: Estonia , Finland , Latvia , Lithuania , Norway , Poland , Ukraine , Belarus
Asian neighbors: Azerbaijan , China , Georgia , Kazakhstan , Mongolia , North Korea - San Marino : Italy
- Sweden : Finland , Norway . Bridge to Denmark .
- Switzerland : Germany , France , Italy , Liechtenstein , Austria
- Serbia : Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Kosovo , Croatia , North Macedonia , Montenegro , Romania , Hungary
- Slovakia : Austria , Poland , Czech Republic , Ukraine , Hungary
- Slovenia : Italy , Croatia , Austria , Hungary
- Spain : Andorra , France , Portugal . By overseas territory: United Kingdom (through Gibraltar ). Outside Europe: Morocco (through Ceuta and Melilla ).
- Czech Republic : Germany , Austria , Poland , Slovakia
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Turkey : European neighbors: Bulgaria , Greece .
Asian neighbors: Armenia , Azerbaijan , Georgia , Iraq , Iran , Syria - Ukraine : Moldova , Poland , Romania , Russia , Slovakia , Hungary , Belarus
- Hungary : Croatia , Austria , Romania , Serbia , Slovakia , Slovenia , Ukraine
- Vatican City : Italy
- United Kingdom : Ireland (through Northern Ireland ). Other borders: France (through the Eurotunnel ), Spain (through Gibraltar ), Cyprus (through Akrotiri and Dekelia )
- Belarus : Latvia , Lithuania , Poland , Russia , Ukraine
- Cyprus United Kingdom (through Akrotiri and Dekelia )
Neighboring countries of European countries by number (descending)
- 14 neighboring countries : Russia
- 12 neighboring countries : France
- 9 neighboring countries : Germany
- 8 neighboring countries : Austria , Serbia , Turkey
- 7 neighboring countries : Poland , Ukraine , Hungary
- 6 neighboring countries : Italy
- 5 neighboring countries : Bulgaria , Kazakhstan *, Croatia , Romania , Switzerland , Slovakia , Spain , Belarus
- 4 neighboring countries : Albania , Belgium , Greece , Kosovo , Latvia , Lithuania , North Macedonia , Montenegro , Slovenia , the Czech Republic
- 3 neighboring countries : Bosnia and Herzegovina , Finland , Luxembourg , Norway , Sweden
- 2 neighboring countries : Andorra , Denmark , Estonia , Liechtenstein , Moldova , Netherlands ,
- 1 neighboring country : Ireland , Monaco , Portugal , San Marino , Vatican City , United Kingdom
- No neighboring countries : Iceland , Malta , Cyprus
- * About 5.4% of the country's area of Kazakhstan are assigned to the extreme Eastern Europe.