european locations?

Question

I have to memorize all the locations of European countries. by tomorrow. i got the capitals and names down but i don't know how to remember where they all go. is there any way to remember them like easier than just trying to memorize them?

yea i failed the test like 12/29

Answer 1

Do them by groups. Spain and Portugal are down there on the Iberian Peninsula (Spain is the big one), then France is just above that. (Do you have to know Andorra? It's the tiny county in between.) So that's a group you can kind of wrap your mind around. They all speak related languages, and are close together.

Going north, you have the "Benelux" countries, as they call them in Europe -- Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Again, learn them as a group. Belgium is the biggest, Luxembourg is very small, Netherlands the other.

To the North, you then get Germany on the mainland side and Great Britain out in the Atlantic.

Further north are the Scandinavian Countries. One European children's books shows them as balloons going up from the fist that is the northern part of Germany. Iceland out in the ocean, Denmark straight up, Sweden to the right, and Norway the highest.

Now you just have to learn the middle. Switzerland and Austria are landlocked. Switzerland is west of Austria. Italy is that "boot kicking a football" below them.

I hope you can go on from there, because I'm not as good at eastern Europe.

Best of luck! Hope I helped.

Answer 2

It might help to draw your own map of Europe and then mark the areas where the countries and the capitals are located. Many people are more "visual" and can remember more if they can visualize the map. Use the actual European map to make your copy, and then copy it yourself several times. You might be able to recreate the map when you are taking the test and you will remember more of the capitals.

Answer 3

draw a cartoon like map of europe and put the capitals on the countries. Then just memorize them as a group (i.e., capital and country together) so that they stay together in your mind.

For example, memorize "Paris, France" and whenever you think about where France is located or anything about France, think "Paris, France" and that way it reinforces the capital connection.

Memorize them in groups, such as countries from north to south, or from the coastlines inward, or west to east, or alphabetically. Visualize them on your own cartoon map everytime you think of them. That way you will reinforce it even more.