5 Facts About Western Europe

1. The most densely populated country in Western Europe is the microstate of Monaco.

2. In the 15th century, Western Europe started to extend itself beyond its geographic frontiers.

3. Climate of Western Europe varies from subtropical and semi-arid in the southern coast of Italy and Spain to alpine in the Pyrenees.

4. With the onset of the Cold War, Western Europe was divided by the Iron Curtain.

5. Since the Great Schism of 1054, Western Europe has been divided between Roman Catholic and Protestant churches in the West and the Eastern Orthodox Christian churches in the east.