Average elevation of Europe (in meters)

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  1. I am surprised Belgium’s elevation is higher on average than the whole of the UK’s? Since the UK does have – what I think could be described as – actual mountains. Since I am Dutch I find the Ardennes properly impressive in terms of elevation but mountains they ain’t.

  2. I thought Russia would be higher given the presence of Mount Elbrus. Then I realised how much of barren flatlands they have.

  3. Denmark is free to join our little community of flatter lands, but seeing it in person, it’s not as flat as the Netherlands 100*, it’s just a bunch of hills that basically never quite exceed ten meters high, with a few exceptions.

  4. if we would take Central slovakia it would be a lot higher i think.

    probably western slovakia pulling the average down a ton.

  5. funny how the highest point in Denmark (himmelbjerget, meaning “heaven mountain”) with its 147m, isn’t even higher than the average height of most surrounding countries.

  6. I would like to see a map about average flatness (average rate of elevation change) if that’s sensible. Basically how mountainous a country is.

  7. I’ve always found it quite amusing that we Norwegians promote ourselves as *the* mountainous country, but our mountains aren’t really that tall compared to the average country. This just confirms the hoax.

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