The Scottish Highlands were once covered by the Caledonian Forests. Human activity and unchecked grazing by sheep and deer caused to massive soil erosion. It's a barren wasteland devoid of its former biodiversity in all but a few pockets.
Similar thing apparently happened to the west of ireland in the stone age.
But also Ireland (& probably Scotland) were scrapped clean by glaciers during the ice age!
same thing happened in the Cambrian mountains in Wales, it was once temperate rainforest, now it's almost completely barren after centuries of sheep farming predominantly.
there have been some calls to reforest it, but there are also objections to that from the people who live there and work on the land, especially as it's a bit of a refuge for the Welsh language.
The score is here refers to land use for agricolture > Sites with a final score of 100 can be seen as sites with the best suitable soils for agriculture, whereas soils with SQR scores < 40 can be regarded as very poor or poor with regard to agricultural land use (https://soil.copernicus.org/articles/4/267/2018/). There are areas with forests in the map (Norway or the Alps for example) that are still coloured in red, as not suitable for agricolture. Not that what you're saying is wrong, but you might be giving a wrong interpretation to what the map is showing.
-Edit, grammar
No, no, they got screwed over by the little ice age, a period in time where the earth cooled a lot and it lasted between like 1330-1815, and it kind of ruined a lot of places in Europe because of the lowered global temperature
Even with forests. It’s the mountains soil, usually very thin,rocky and steep terrain. The red in this map is mainly a map of mountains and massifs in Europe: you can clearly see the Alps, Pyrenees, Apenines, Cantabrian Mountains, the Central and Iberian cordilleras, the Carpathians, Galician Massif, Dinaric Alps, Scandinavian Alps etc etc
Honestly while thats partly true the biggest influnace is the type of soil to start with. the whole of the uk used to be covered with forest and has been farmed for a long time.
The uk has different geology running across it, some areas the top layers are older than others, and some are richer in minerals than others. age doesn't necessarily make for good or bad soil it varies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology\_of\_Great\_Britain
Unfortunately our soil are dangerous now because of the war. There are a lot of mines, missiles, damaged military stuff and dead bodies. We gonna need a lot of time to make it safe. 
Good to hear that! You can be certain that your agricultural lands will be your recommendation card to enter the EU... Whenever we find out how to solve our own agricultural problems. But by the time the war ends, hopefully that problem will be solved. How's everything going over there? Let's hope Trump doesn't win and everything goes to shit.
Our agricultural also a big problem, because it cheaper so EU afraid that it will collapse the market. But probably at that time price gonna rise a bit, we'll see. I'm in lviv now so it's kinda safe here. At the east part it's hard, at the front line it's totally hell.
For me trump is a stalin before world war and putin is a hitler. Those assholes was a partners too before the world war. Gonna see what happens.
Yeah... The good thing is that you can expect a plan Marshall when all this is over, and that should ease up the transition to European Regulations, that would make the balance more fair. And I am pretty sure that there is an agrarian reform incoming (the pressure is a real thing, for once), so everything in that sense should just go on.
Courage. Better times will arrive for Ukraine and Europe as a whole
Of course you have. But it is clear that you have the will for change (that's probably part of the reason why you have resisted for 2 years already, and you will probably still resist). And that's a very important part of the process.
As for ww3, I guess none of us will have no saying of whatever it will happen, unless you somehow infiltrate your way to Moscow and introduce a Tomahawk into Putin's ass. So if it happens (provided that we aren't instantly nuked into oblivion), I guess we will have to fight together.
About Hungary specifically. In the 20 th century, Hungary was one of the leaders of the grain export. Correct me somebody, but if I'm not wrong Hungary was on the 3d place in Europe in the export of wheat.
The Kingdom of Hungary was a separate entity, inside the Austro-Hungarian empire.
"Austria-Hungary was a military and diplomatic alliance of two sovereign states with a single monarch who was titled both emperor of Austria and King of Hungary."
From the wikipedia page of Austria-Hungary
You have to be careful with how they calculate Hungarian exports before 1919. Shipments to Austria (so "internally" within Austria-Hungary) sometimes get counted as "exports", when it's questionable whether they really should be.
How is Romania landlocked? It has the largest port on the Black Sea lol. The location is shit geopolitically because historically we were squished between 3 empires. Or at least I think that's what they were alluding to.
The only way to reach the open sea is going through a straight completely controlled by Turkey. It's not landlocked, but very limited in its possibilities. Especially before the era of global conventions.
It could be the reason Romania was squished between 3 empires in the first place.
Feel like so much development potential throughout history was lost due to being the dumping ground for the latest round of steppe nomads. And, then the battle grounds for the Austrian, Russian, and Ottoman empires.
Yes, all this you said fits for all of them, Romania, Hungary and Ukraine too. The lands of all three were dumping ground for steppe nomads and then battlegrounds for those three empires. I never thought about it like that, indeed lots of potential was lost in these places because of these countries' geographical position
This is cereal based soil quality, as well as other vegetation types that the study decided to verify as scalable/sellable. There is also practically no granularity.
Simply put, it does not account for all types of fruits, as for instance, there is no difference between the river valleys, that are usually extremely fertile, and the mountain-side (In Portugal's example, the Douro valley is renowed for its quality wine harvest, but it is not especially plentiful. Nevertheless, it has the same quality as mountainous inland Portugal.
In the south east of Spain they produce most of the vegetables that are sold in Europe. It is the "sea of plastic" of Almería and the infamous crops of Murcia, where they make (afaik) more than one harvest of vegetables per year, because it's always sunny.
I guess fruit production doesn’t require particularly good soil. Most of England’s vineyards are in the chalk belt, and I think northern France is similar. Anywhere that has rich soil tends to be used for wheat/barley etc
Several [international soil names](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Reference_Base_for_Soil_Resources#The_WRB_2022) are actually Slavic and include [chernozems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernozem) because one of the first fundametal works on types of soils and specifically on chernozem was done in Russian Empire after abolition of serfdom.
The red is a bit too dominant, bit its not entirely inaccurate. The red regions are mainly peat soil, which isn't ideal for farming. Cattle will work, but crops are more difficult. Its the same with sand.
You’re forgetting that the rivers also bring water, which creates peat. The red parts are mostly peat soils. They are poor in quality for agriculture but great in quality for biodiversity.
After the last ice age, the area around Stockholm had been depressed by the weight of the ice and was far below sea level. During several thousand years, mighty layers of fine clay was deposited by the Baltic Sea in the valleys carved by the ice that was then sea bottom. Isostatic lift then raised the area of Mälardalen above sea level, and those clay deposits are now very fertile agricultural land.
The lake Mälaren probably contributes, and leafy woodland/rolling lush fields compared to the pine based growth and rocky soil in many other orange areas in Sweden.
I think at this map some % of all territory. I'm living in lviv now and if you go outside the city you immediately see the great fields. But it's mostly raps, technical culture.
Not all fruits and vegetables need good soil. Olives, for example, thrive in dry, almost barren soil, and Spain is covered in olive trees. I think they grow to their strengths. Spain also has a lot of sun and can harvest all year long.
There is no such thing as untouched nature in Europe. Deforestation, agriculture, grazing animals, settlements, drained swamps, straightened rivers... It's all influenced by human civilization.
The forest in Swedish Lappland is basically all planted and tended by the logging industry. The tundra is less affected, but the world’s largest iron mine is located in Kiruna in northern Lappland.
There are some gorgeous national parks up there though.
Agree. The soil in central Västergötland is literally used almost exclusively for wheat and other grains, as opposed to the green marked areas in Uppland which are mainly pine trees clinging on to rocks.
It’s not the border. It’s the central massif of the Scandes mountain range that you can see colored red. The border between the countries happens to follow the mountain range.
How is it possible that Ukraine which widely is considered to have some of the best soil in Europe…has both very poor and very good right next to each other. A country like Poland (its neighbour) is instead almost all moderate.
The green parts near Florence and light green on the east coast are where most of the grapes are grown, Italy wine region maps will look similar to this map too. The red parts are the mountains that are too high and rocky to grow much. The map is basically the same as the population density map, the Appennine Mountains that run down the spine of Italy don't have much going on in general.
With all that great land(Romania) we still eat vegetables from Spain, Nederland, Greece and Turkey.
We also have mutilated our irrigation systems. weird having so many rivers(small ones,now starting to dry out). Nature is the only good thing in Romania.we do not deserve it.
It’s crazy that even Reddit users fallen to woke propaganda of ignoring Russia and Belarus. Great to know that even on the most independent of platforms there are morons. Absolutely incredible.
I would never have thought that about Galicia (north-west Spain). I guess fertility doesn’t necessarily mean quality 
please think about color blind people while picking color for demonstrations. ı am not able to differential red from the other red and also green from the other green
Now I wonder, how is it that France managed to be a medieval super power in Europe thanks to having yes population due to agriculture, but Hungary and Romania didn't?
I am pretty sure I can see my grandmothers farm on this map, lol. Remember, when EU were measuring soil quality in her land, the guy said that is was the worst soil that he ever seen. Said, that is is basically sand. It is in Lithuania btw, not much red there, so easier to notice.
Norway: Fish it is, then!
Fish and seasonal raiding to Britannia!
Everyone knows the clergy are a hardy perennial, great farming practices by the vikings
And we are the workds biggest salmon exporter
Cod dealers.
And what is that black smudge in the middle of the sea?? Probably worthless.
The Scottish Highlands were once covered by the Caledonian Forests. Human activity and unchecked grazing by sheep and deer caused to massive soil erosion. It's a barren wasteland devoid of its former biodiversity in all but a few pockets.
Similar thing apparently happened to the west of ireland in the stone age. But also Ireland (& probably Scotland) were scrapped clean by glaciers during the ice age!
Fun fact, we’re still in an ice age!
Just wait until the gulf stream changes direction in 50-100 years, then youll see iceage in Europe.
And then the Brits for Oak in the middle ages
same thing happened in the Cambrian mountains in Wales, it was once temperate rainforest, now it's almost completely barren after centuries of sheep farming predominantly. there have been some calls to reforest it, but there are also objections to that from the people who live there and work on the land, especially as it's a bit of a refuge for the Welsh language.
Which is why I can only recommend stuff like [mossy.earth](https://www.mossy.earth)
The score is here refers to land use for agricolture > Sites with a final score of 100 can be seen as sites with the best suitable soils for agriculture, whereas soils with SQR scores < 40 can be regarded as very poor or poor with regard to agricultural land use (https://soil.copernicus.org/articles/4/267/2018/). There are areas with forests in the map (Norway or the Alps for example) that are still coloured in red, as not suitable for agricolture. Not that what you're saying is wrong, but you might be giving a wrong interpretation to what the map is showing. -Edit, grammar
Iceland as well.
No, no, they got screwed over by the little ice age, a period in time where the earth cooled a lot and it lasted between like 1330-1815, and it kind of ruined a lot of places in Europe because of the lowered global temperature
And human/sheep influence. And it's still going on.
Even with forests. It’s the mountains soil, usually very thin,rocky and steep terrain. The red in this map is mainly a map of mountains and massifs in Europe: you can clearly see the Alps, Pyrenees, Apenines, Cantabrian Mountains, the Central and Iberian cordilleras, the Carpathians, Galician Massif, Dinaric Alps, Scandinavian Alps etc etc
Honestly while thats partly true the biggest influnace is the type of soil to start with. the whole of the uk used to be covered with forest and has been farmed for a long time. The uk has different geology running across it, some areas the top layers are older than others, and some are richer in minerals than others. age doesn't necessarily make for good or bad soil it varies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology\_of\_Great\_Britain
Same in wales, the mountains used to be covered in oak trees and old forest. It’s just ferns that crowded everything else out now
How long does it take for soil to regain its biodiversity and health? Thousands of years?
Yes, but think of all the humans that have been fed by those sheep….
The Scottish Highlands are anything but barren. They comprise huge levels of biodiversity and enormous terrestrial carbon stores.
You make a good point about some of the carbon stores, but nowhere on land in the UK comprises huge levels of biodiversity.
Huge levels of biodiversity?? There are barely any mammals left in the UK other than humans and cattle.
Hungary, Romania and Ukraine pulled the soil quality jackpot
Unfortunately our soil are dangerous now because of the war. There are a lot of mines, missiles, damaged military stuff and dead bodies. We gonna need a lot of time to make it safe. 
At least most of the western bank of the Dnipro is still usable. Look at North Western Spain.
Oh dude, our farmers work even in east. They make homemade deminers and clear their lands. I so proud of them, really unbreakable people.
Good to hear that! You can be certain that your agricultural lands will be your recommendation card to enter the EU... Whenever we find out how to solve our own agricultural problems. But by the time the war ends, hopefully that problem will be solved. How's everything going over there? Let's hope Trump doesn't win and everything goes to shit.
Our agricultural also a big problem, because it cheaper so EU afraid that it will collapse the market. But probably at that time price gonna rise a bit, we'll see. I'm in lviv now so it's kinda safe here. At the east part it's hard, at the front line it's totally hell. For me trump is a stalin before world war and putin is a hitler. Those assholes was a partners too before the world war. Gonna see what happens.
Yeah... The good thing is that you can expect a plan Marshall when all this is over, and that should ease up the transition to European Regulations, that would make the balance more fair. And I am pretty sure that there is an agrarian reform incoming (the pressure is a real thing, for once), so everything in that sense should just go on. Courage. Better times will arrive for Ukraine and Europe as a whole
Hope everything gonna be ok. But don't relax, we have a lot things to change here, because of USSR heritage. And don't reject possiblity of ww3.
Of course you have. But it is clear that you have the will for change (that's probably part of the reason why you have resisted for 2 years already, and you will probably still resist). And that's a very important part of the process. As for ww3, I guess none of us will have no saying of whatever it will happen, unless you somehow infiltrate your way to Moscow and introduce a Tomahawk into Putin's ass. So if it happens (provided that we aren't instantly nuked into oblivion), I guess we will have to fight together.
Hope it won't happen
If your soil is so good, why you grow something cheap like wheat?
We grew a lot of cultures, not only wheat.
Lol, cultures? You all are just sub-russians dude. Btw, you didn't answer the question. Why wheat?
About Hungary specifically. In the 20 th century, Hungary was one of the leaders of the grain export. Correct me somebody, but if I'm not wrong Hungary was on the 3d place in Europe in the export of wheat.
If thats true, then it was probably before Trianon.
I guess the soviets didnt help either. They tried to make us into an industrial country, instead of agrarian
Before Trianon, it was Austria-Hungary, so probably not.
The Kingdom of Hungary was a separate entity, inside the Austro-Hungarian empire. "Austria-Hungary was a military and diplomatic alliance of two sovereign states with a single monarch who was titled both emperor of Austria and King of Hungary." From the wikipedia page of Austria-Hungary
You have to be careful with how they calculate Hungarian exports before 1919. Shipments to Austria (so "internally" within Austria-Hungary) sometimes get counted as "exports", when it's questionable whether they really should be.
And the geopolitical opposite of a jackpot.
What do you mean tho? Romania and Hungary are both in the EU and NATO so not much to worry about geopolitically. About Ukraine we know of course.
I think OP meant landlocked or practically landlocked.
How is Romania landlocked? It has the largest port on the Black Sea lol. The location is shit geopolitically because historically we were squished between 3 empires. Or at least I think that's what they were alluding to.
The only way to reach the open sea is going through a straight completely controlled by Turkey. It's not landlocked, but very limited in its possibilities. Especially before the era of global conventions. It could be the reason Romania was squished between 3 empires in the first place.
Also, both were unfortunate enough to fall into the USSR's sphere of influence after WW2.
Historically. That region of Europe was successively invaded from all sides throughout history.
Let’s not sleep on Bulgaria
And Belgium, or am i mistaken?
I am guessing the south of Russia is the same quality as Moldova and Belarus.
Feel like so much development potential throughout history was lost due to being the dumping ground for the latest round of steppe nomads. And, then the battle grounds for the Austrian, Russian, and Ottoman empires.
Yes, all this you said fits for all of them, Romania, Hungary and Ukraine too. The lands of all three were dumping ground for steppe nomads and then battlegrounds for those three empires. I never thought about it like that, indeed lots of potential was lost in these places because of these countries' geographical position
Spain and Italy are very red, yet they are big fruit/vegetable producers, I don't get it
Mounrain terrain is red, but I see a lot of plantation in the side of mountains.
This is cereal based soil quality, as well as other vegetation types that the study decided to verify as scalable/sellable. There is also practically no granularity. Simply put, it does not account for all types of fruits, as for instance, there is no difference between the river valleys, that are usually extremely fertile, and the mountain-side (In Portugal's example, the Douro valley is renowed for its quality wine harvest, but it is not especially plentiful. Nevertheless, it has the same quality as mountainous inland Portugal.
Yeah I was going to say for which crop?
In the south east of Spain they produce most of the vegetables that are sold in Europe. It is the "sea of plastic" of Almería and the infamous crops of Murcia, where they make (afaik) more than one harvest of vegetables per year, because it's always sunny.
It's red for grain. Many red areas are really nice are for vineyard.
I guess fruit production doesn’t require particularly good soil. Most of England’s vineyards are in the chalk belt, and I think northern France is similar. Anywhere that has rich soil tends to be used for wheat/barley etc
Salt based nutrition from the devil
Greenhouses do a great part.... I suggest a "birds view" over Almeria region... it is seen from satellite imagery...
That's only part of the truth, while it is not true at all for Italy... It is because the map only shows wheat farms.
I guess the soil is bad, but you can always import the fertilisers right? I know nothing about agriculture...
They don’t call Ukraine the breadbasket of Europe for nothing.
We also have special words for our soil - чорнозем pronounced chornozem. It means black ground, very fertile soil.
Czarnoziemy my beloved
There's Chernozem in Hungary too, I live in Eastern Hungary in a Chernozem area and the soil is black here.
Cool. You have the same word for it?
Feketeföld. The Hungarianized original word "csernozjom" is also used.
Wait, I have a great idea, let's build battery manufacturing plants all over it. :/
Several [international soil names](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Reference_Base_for_Soil_Resources#The_WRB_2022) are actually Slavic and include [chernozems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernozem) because one of the first fundametal works on types of soils and specifically on chernozem was done in Russian Empire after abolition of serfdom.
Ah yes černozem
Don’t forget about the sweet sweet watermelons
You can see why Russia wants it.
This should be titled more specifically: "Soil quality in Europe for agricultural puposes"
What else could "soil quality" refer to?
Maybe mudslide potential, and stability in general. The ground with a lot of mud is hard to build stable construction on.
Ability to build on
I expected the NL to be much better.
The red is a bit too dominant, bit its not entirely inaccurate. The red regions are mainly peat soil, which isn't ideal for farming. Cattle will work, but crops are more difficult. Its the same with sand.
It is. Nonsensical map.
Yes, three major rivers bringing the manure and soil from all of Europe and the soil is bad???
You’re forgetting that the rivers also bring water, which creates peat. The red parts are mostly peat soils. They are poor in quality for agriculture but great in quality for biodiversity.
Mediocre land but major agricultural exporter.
The good soil in Ireland seems to be located in Ireland's vast peat bogs
Hows Norwegian gardening btw.
Hard work
Very steep.
Stealing black soil from England
Moss and rocks.
Also known as chiseling
Anyone know why there is a pocket of fertility around stockholm?
After the last ice age, the area around Stockholm had been depressed by the weight of the ice and was far below sea level. During several thousand years, mighty layers of fine clay was deposited by the Baltic Sea in the valleys carved by the ice that was then sea bottom. Isostatic lift then raised the area of Mälardalen above sea level, and those clay deposits are now very fertile agricultural land.
River basin probably.
Explains why most live around that area.
The lake Mälaren probably contributes, and leafy woodland/rolling lush fields compared to the pine based growth and rocky soil in many other orange areas in Sweden.
Belgium easily has best countryside
no wonder why Ukraine is one of the top grain exporters in the world.
I am guessing very good quality is in the south of Russia , Moldova and Belarus.
You can see Ukrainian-Polish border if you zoom in.
The Panonian plain is giving plenty to Romania Hungary and Serbia.
Wow I’m shocked by Italy and spain
Why Galicia is so red?
Because of mountains
But Galicia is not specially mountainous. Its a conspiracy!
I think at this map some % of all territory. I'm living in lviv now and if you go outside the city you immediately see the great fields. But it's mostly raps, technical culture.
Be safe man.
I’m colourblind, so is Wales great or awful?
Mountains
That’s why they used to call Ukraine the food bowl for Europe eh
What did Moldova do? Lol
Their soil was so fertile that it was of the charts
Ukraine is mentioned not in war context!!! 😍✨💅🏼🇺🇦💪🏻
Flevoland Netherlands. Everyone hates us in Netherlands. But our soil.
If the soil in Southern Spain is so poor, why does it provide so much fruit and vegetables?
Not all fruits and vegetables need good soil. Olives, for example, thrive in dry, almost barren soil, and Spain is covered in olive trees. I think they grow to their strengths. Spain also has a lot of sun and can harvest all year long.
Massive greenhouses you can see from space
Damn so thats why the Vikings took off. Couldnt grow crop for shit 💀
West-Flanders super soil
Is this natural quality? Human induced? Or both?
There is no such thing as untouched nature in Europe. Deforestation, agriculture, grazing animals, settlements, drained swamps, straightened rivers... It's all influenced by human civilization.
Lapland?
The reindeer industry is to Lapland like sheep to Scotland.
The forest in Swedish Lappland is basically all planted and tended by the logging industry. The tundra is less affected, but the world’s largest iron mine is located in Kiruna in northern Lappland. There are some gorgeous national parks up there though.
From flatlands mostly
As a swede I am surprised that Skåne and Västergötland don't have better values. But maybe they are only good farming regions in a swedish context.
Agree. The soil in central Västergötland is literally used almost exclusively for wheat and other grains, as opposed to the green marked areas in Uppland which are mainly pine trees clinging on to rocks.
The best produce I've ever had was in Italy.
we are basically looking at a topographic map, aren't we?
Love how you can basically make out the Norwegian border almost perfectly from this
And that’s why Russia wants Ukraine
\#2 reason why Ukraine should join EU.
why is there a visible border between sweden and norway?
It’s not the border. It’s the central massif of the Scandes mountain range that you can see colored red. The border between the countries happens to follow the mountain range.
Now we know why Norwegians eat pickled fish
We dont
How is it possible that Ukraine which widely is considered to have some of the best soil in Europe…has both very poor and very good right next to each other. A country like Poland (its neighbour) is instead almost all moderate.
Poorway
Do different countries survey differently? Some borders are quite visible (Romania-Ukraine, Sweden-Norway, Germany-Austria/Switzerland/Poland)
Ireland produces a huge multiple of the food it requires.
Ukraine: yes
This is why the Vikings raided
This map is nonsense. It has all of the centre of Ireland (peatland) down as very good and all the good land down as moderate!
How does Italy have good wine if they have bad soil? Doesn’t that make bad grapes?
The green parts near Florence and light green on the east coast are where most of the grapes are grown, Italy wine region maps will look similar to this map too. The red parts are the mountains that are too high and rocky to grow much. The map is basically the same as the population density map, the Appennine Mountains that run down the spine of Italy don't have much going on in general.
Poor quality soil makes better grapes. It's why they normally grow them on an incline, too.
The hardest it’s to grow them, the better they are
With all that great land(Romania) we still eat vegetables from Spain, Nederland, Greece and Turkey. We also have mutilated our irrigation systems. weird having so many rivers(small ones,now starting to dry out). Nature is the only good thing in Romania.we do not deserve it.
Is Italy red because of all the toxic sewage the mafia buried
Paints a good picture as to why putin is invading ukraine.
Hope everyone sees now what’s the true reason for Russian agression in Ukraine
It’s crazy that even Reddit users fallen to woke propaganda of ignoring Russia and Belarus. Great to know that even on the most independent of platforms there are morons. Absolutely incredible.
When you can see the country borders on a soil quality map, you can be pretty sure that this is highly likely a bullshit map.
ukraine isn’t europe
Available in THQ ?
Very nice. Can you recreate with US soil??
This map is well designed!
Ukraine: 
London and Paris are so big they got cut out
What's up with sweden ?
How can Italy and Spain have the stereotype of mediterranean diet and so rich cuisine with that soil :O
Now you understand why sheep in Wales outnumber people 4 to 1.
By my estimations this has Chernobyl as Dark Green (very good) soil quality
You are actually correct
I would never have thought that about Galicia (north-west Spain). I guess fertility doesn’t necessarily mean quality 
please think about color blind people while picking color for demonstrations. ı am not able to differential red from the other red and also green from the other green
Source is … you? Great work!!! 😞🧐
Well, this explains why Roman Empire depended on shipments from North Africa for their grain.
What's up with Galicia? It's so green and it's always raining there. Must be the mountains.
A lot of the red areas in the Mediterranean, Britain and Spain were deforested for shipbuilding
i thought the netherlands had like the best soil in the world because a lot of the land was artificially made
And we are using it to build battery factories for China and poison the ground, awesome.
@OP what is the source for this map please?
WHO THE FUCK PAINTED ON MY MAP
Now I wonder, how is it that France managed to be a medieval super power in Europe thanks to having yes population due to agriculture, but Hungary and Romania didn't?
That will be why Wales doesn’t grow anything but sheep.
If I were a villain, I would have my eyes set on Ukraine Oh wait
Soild quality in France looks impressive compared to neighbors
The Italians sure give it their damndest to cultivate anywhere though
Crimea is Russia now, weird to include that in the Ukraine.
yeah, about that, check the ukraine red and dont ask why
I am pretty sure I can see my grandmothers farm on this map, lol. Remember, when EU were measuring soil quality in her land, the guy said that is was the worst soil that he ever seen. Said, that is is basically sand. It is in Lithuania btw, not much red there, so easier to notice.
Very strange how western peripheries are, for the most part, poor.
And people wonder why Nordic cuisine is bad…
Wait a second: I was taught that Ukraine has this massive amounts of black soil and has one of the most fertile soils in the world.
I don’t understand shit from this map bcz I’m colourblind
Hungary is green. How did the triple alliance not have more food during WW1?
ROMANIA WINNING IN SOMETHING RRRAAAHHHH, WHAT THE FUCK IS DRIED GRASS