How Good Is Your Geography?? [3]

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Originally Posted by Lousada

Haarlem, a city in The Netherlands.

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Yes, baas! Haarlem, the capital of the province of North Holland. Please ask the next one!

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Originally Posted by Wikipedia

In 1658, Peter Stuyvesant, the Director-General of the Dutch colony of Nieuw Nederland (New Netherland), founded the settlement of Nieuw Haarlem in the northern part of Manhattan Island as an outpost of Nieuw Amsterdam (New Amsterdam) at the southern tip of the island. After the English capture of New Netherland in 1664, the new English colonial administration renamed both the colony and its principal city "New York," but left the name of Haarlem more or less unchanged. The spelling changed to Harlem in keeping with contemporary English usage, and the district grew (as part of the borough of Manhattan) into the vibrant center of African American culture in New York City and the United States generally by the 20th century.

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I'll pass. Someone else please ask a new question.

I'll give it another zap!

In Europe, which country has the most arable land and which the least? As a percentage of territory.

Excluding Monaco and the Holy See, which have none at all.

I'll guess:
Most - France
Least - Andorra or Luxembourg

Most? My guess would be the Netherlands because they're so flat. As for the least I'd have to go with one of Ed's guesses or Switzerland because it's mountainous.

The best guesses so far are France and Andorra. France is 9th from the top with 33.5%, Andorra is 2nd from the bottom with 2.1%.

Most: Spain?
Least: Liechtenstein?

The best guesses are still France and Andorra. A hint: neither of these countries are in the EU and both have a population of less than 5 million.

And: if you take the traditional East-West divide in Europe, then one of these countries is Western and the other is Eastern.

OK
Most:Ireland?
Least: Albania?

Hold it...Does anything grow in Scotland?