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Beaches in Europe
936 beaches in Europe, spread across 26 countries. The best known is Curonian Spit in Russia. The 96 best known are below; the rest are on the map.
- In Europe
- 936
- Countries
- 26
- Share of world
- 57%
- Little known
- 877 of 936
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4.Omaha Beach
Nature · Renowned
1944 one of the five sectors of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France
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6.Vistula Spit
Nature · Notable
Peninsular stretch of land in the Baltic Sea on the border between Russia and Poland
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7.Utah Beach
Nature · Notable
1944 code name for the right flank of the Allied landing beaches in Normandy
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45.Obytichna Spit
Nature · Notable
Spit partially separating Obytichna Bay from the Sea of Azov and Berdiansk Bay
Beaches in Europe, by country
Every country here with at least one. Those with a page of their own link through.
Beaches elsewhere
Questions about this page
What are the best known beaches in Europe?
Curonian Spit in Russia leads the list. Dune spit in Lithuania and Russia.
Which country in Europe has the most?
Spain (559), Portugal (92) and United Kingdom (75). That ranks how much Wikidata records, not what exists on the ground.
How much of the world is that?
936 of the 1,652 beaches on this atlas, so 57%. The rest are on the worldwide page.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.