THE CULTURES OF EUROPE

Directions: Read the articles about the countries from the different regions
of Europe.

Northern Europe (England)

1. What the countries in this region of Europe?

England, Scotland, Welch, and Ireland.
2. What are the languages that are spoken in this region of Europe?
English, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Irish, and Cornish.
3. What is the dominate language spoken in this region?
English
4. What are the different ethnic groups in this region?
white (of which English 83.6%, Scottish 8.6%, Welsh 4.9%, Northern Irish
2.9%) 92.1%, black 2%, Indian 1.8%, Pakistani 1.3%, mixed 1.2%, other
1.6% (2001 census)
5. What is the dominate ethnic group in this region?
White
6. What are the different religions of this regions?
Christian (Anglican, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist) 71.6%, Muslim
2.7%, Hindu 1%, other 1.6%, unspecified or none 23.1% (2001 census)
7. What is the dominate religion in this region?
Christian
8. How many countries are a part of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Mayotte
9. What do these countries have in common?
They work together of the NATO organization.

Western Europe (France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Germany)

1. What the countries in this region of Europe?

Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, France, and Germany.
2. What are the languages that are spoken in this region of Europe?
French (official) 100%, rapidly declining regional dialects and languages
(Provencal, Breton, Alsatian, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish)
Overseas departments: French, Creole patois, Mahorian (a Swahili dialect),
Dutch (official) 60%, French (official) 40%, German (official) less than 1%,
legally bilingual (Dutch and French)
3. What is the dominate language spoken in this region?
French, German, Dutch, and Frisian.
4. What are the different ethnic groups in this region?
Overseas departments: black, white, mulatto, East Indian, Chinese,
Amerindian, German 91.5%, Turkish 2.4%, other 6.1%, Fleming 58%,