Vatican City Country Overview The Vatican City State is an independent state that is completely surrounded by Rome. This makes it the smallest country in the world. Despite its prominent position within Italy, Vatican City is in the same time zone as the rest of Italy. The time zone map assigns Italy to the Central…
Category: Europe
United Kingdom Population, People, Languages and Religions
Great Britain Country Overview The island of Great Britain is located in the northwest of the European continent and is the largest island in Europe. On the time zone map, which shows countries in their respective world time zones, Great Britain is located in an area where the time exactly coincides with Coordinated Universal Time…
Ukraine Population, People, Languages and Religions
Ukraine Country Overview The Eastern European country of Ukraine, with its capital in Kyiv, is the second largest country in Europe in terms of area. Like most Eastern European countries, Ukraine is also located on the time zone map in the Eastern European time zone, which has a time shift of +2 hours to Coordinated…
Turkey Population, People, Languages and Religions
Turkey Country Overview Turkey is a democratic republic located in Asia and Europe. 97% of its area is on Asian soil. Therefore there is also a time difference of 2 hours between world time and Turkey. On the time zone map, countries are divided into time zones. The time zone to which a country belongs…
Switzerland Population, People, Languages and Religions
Switzerland Country Overview The alpine country of Switzerland, or “Swiss Confederation” is a country in Central Europe that is completely surrounded by other countries. The time zone map assigns Switzerland to the Central European world time zone. In this time zone there is a time difference of +1 hour to the universal time (UTC). In…
Sweden Population, People, Languages and Religions
Sweden Country Overview The Kingdom of Sweden is located in northern Europe and the form of government is a parliamentary monarchy. The islands of Gotland and Öland are part of the Swedish state. Sweden is part of the EU. The time zone map assigns Sweden to the Central European world time zone. There is a…
Spain Population, People, Languages and Religions
Spain Country Overview Spain is located in southwestern Europe and the form of government is a parliamentary hereditary monarchy. The state is also located in the Iberian Peninsula. The time zone map places Spain in the Central European Time Zone, which is +1 hour offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). In the summer months, this…
Slovenia Population, People, Languages and Religions
Slovenia Country Overview The Republic of Slovenia is located in Central Europe and joined the European Union in 2004. Thanks to its location on the time zone map, Slovenia is in a world time zone called “Central European Time”. In this time zone there is a time difference of +1 hour to Coordinated Universal Time…
Slovakia Population, People, Languages and Religions
Slovakia Country Overview The landlocked country of Slovakia is located in Central Europe. Czechoslovakia emerged from this state. The time zone map places Slovakia in the Central European Time Zone, a world time zone that has a +1 hour time offset from Coordinated World Time. In the summer months, this difference is +2 hours, since…
Serbia Population, People, Languages and Religions
Serbia Country Overview Serbia is a landlocked country in Southeastern Europe. The former constituent state of Yugoslavia is now the legal successor of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Politically, Serbia is now seeking proximity to the European Union. Geographically it’s a part. At least on the time zone map, Serbia is located in a world…
San Marino Population, People, Languages and Religions
San Marino Country Overview Located in the heart of Italy, the Republic of San Marino dates back to 301, making it the oldest republic in the world. Because of its location in the middle of Europe, San Marino is also assigned to the Central European time zone on the time zone map. In this world…
Russia Population, People, Languages and Religions
Russia Country Overview Russia, which is also officially called ‘Russian Federation’, is located in northern Eurasia and is the country with the largest area on earth. Thanks to this fact, Russia is spread over 9 time zones. The time zone map divides countries according to their time difference from the world time into zones. In…
Romania Population, People, Languages and Religions
Romania Country Overview Romania is a country geographically located right in the middle of Central and Southeastern Europe. Romania is a semi-presidential republic. The time zone map of the world divides countries into world time zones along lines of longitude. According to this map, Romania is in “Eastern European Time”, a time zone that has…
Portugal Population, People, Languages and Religions
Portugal Country Overview The European country of Portugal is bordered by Spain to the north and the Iberian Peninsula to the west. On the time zone map, Portugal is located in a world time zone called “West European Time”. In this time zone, there is no time shift to the coordinated world time in the…
Poland Population, People, Languages and Religions
Poland Country Overview The state of Poland with its capital Warsaw is located in Central Europe. Because of its position within the time zone map, the world time zone in which it is located is also called “Central European Time”. This time zone has a standard offset of 1 hour from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+1)….
Norway Population, People, Languages and Religions
Norway Country Overview Norway is located in Northern Europe and the form of government is a constitutional monarchy. On the time zone map, which divides countries into world time zones along lines of longitude, Norway is in a time zone called “Central European Time” or “Middle European Time”. This means that clocks in Norway are…
Netherlands Population, People, Languages and Religions
Netherlands Country Overview The Netherlands is a small country in western Europe. The parliamentary monarchy is part of the Benelux countries alongside Belgium and Luxembourg. Some Caribbean islands still belong to Dutch territory today. On the time zone map, Holland is located in a world time zone called “Central European Time”. Here the standard time…
Nauru Population, People, Languages and Religions
Nauru Country Overview The island nation of Nauru is located in the Pacific Ocean and is part of Micronesia. Nauro is one of the smallest countries in the world, both in terms of population and area. Despite its small area, the state is assigned its own time zone on the time zone map. This is…
Montenegro Population, People, Languages and Religions
Montenegro Country Overview The Republic of Montenegro is located in south-eastern Europe, on the Adriatic coast. In 2006 the Republic of Yugoslavia became independent. Today Montenegro is a member of the UN and the OSCE. Accession to the EU and NATO could soon follow. The Central European time zone applies in Montenegro, which can be…
Monaco Population, People, Languages and Religions
Monaco Country Overview The state of Monaco, also known as the Principality of Monaco, is located in Western Europe and is completely surrounded by France. However, it is a state of its own. However, because of its location, Monaco is assigned to Central European Time on time zone maps. Thus, the time difference to the…
Moldova Population, People, Languages and Religions
Moldova Country Overview The landlocked country of Moldova, also known as Moldova, is located in south-eastern Europe. The official language is Romanian, but other languages such as Russian or Ukrainian can also be found in Moldova. On the time zone map, Moldova is assigned to the “Eastern European Time” (EET) time zone. Therefore, the time…
Malta Population, People, Languages and Religions
Malta Country Overview The former British colony of Malta is located in the Mediterranean Sea. The island nation is divided into three islands: Malta, Gozo and Comino. Malta is one of the newer members of the European Union. On the time zone map, Malta is assigned to the same time zone as most other European…
Macedonia Population, People, Languages and Religions
Macedonia Country Overview Macedonia, also known as North Macedonia, is located in south-eastern Europe and is a landlocked country. Macedonia has been one of the candidate countries for accession to the European Union since 2005. On the time zone map, which divides the world into world time zones based on longitude, it can be seen…
Luxembourg Population, People, Languages and Religions
Luxembourg Country Overview Located in Western Europe, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a parliamentary monarchy. It is one of the 3 states that make up the Benelux. The time zone map shows that Luxembourg is located in a world time zone called “Central European Time” (CET) where there is a standard deviation of one…
Lithuania Population, People, Languages and Religions
Lithuania Country Overview The state of Lithuania is located in northern Europe and at the same time it is the most southern of the three Baltic states. The time zone map, which divides all countries into time zones, shows that Lithuania is in a time zone called “Eastern European Time” (EET). There the time difference…
Liechtenstein Population, People, Languages and Religions
Liechtenstein Country Overview Liechtenstein, or officially the Principality of Liechtenstein, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. On the time zone map, Liechtenstein is located in a world time zone called “Central European Time” (CET) or “Middle European Time” (MEZ). In this time zone there is a time difference of one hour to the coordinated…
Latvia Population, People, Languages and Religions
Latvia Country Overview The northern European state of Latvia is located in the middle of the Baltic States. On the time zone map, Latvia is located in a world time zone that has a standard difference of 2 hours from coordinated universal time (UTC). This means that clocks there are 2 hours later than universal…
Italy Population, People, Languages and Religions
Italy Country Overview The Italian Republic, with its capital in Rome, is a European republic lying largely on the Apennine Peninsula, surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea. Italy is on the time zone map, like a large part of the other European countries, in a time zone called “Central European Time Zone” (CET) which is one…
Ireland Population, People, Languages and Religions
Ireland Country Overview Ireland, also often called “Green Island”, is the third largest island in Europe and is located in the Atlantic. On the time zone map, which divides the world into time zones along lines of longitude, Ireland is in a region that does not deviate from world clock time. However, there is a…
Iceland Population, People, Languages and Religions
Iceland Country Overview Iceland is the second largest island country in Europe and is located in the North Atlantic just before the Arctic Circle. Iceland is the largest volcanic island on earth. The time zone map of the world divides countries into world time zones along lines of longitude. This division into time zones defines…