In 2021, what do the 12 countries or states - Austria, Cyprus, Finland, Ireland, Malta, Sweden, Switzerland, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City - have in common?
They are European but not members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) NATO was established in 1949 with 12 members, and in 2021 has 30 members across Europe (27), North America (2) and Asia (1), but these 12 have not joined. Switzerland, despite being landlocked, does maintain a navy. The flags are varied and several do not include red. None of the countries was a signatory to the Warsaw Pact, which was a collective defence treaty between the Soviet Union and seven other (at the time) Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe.
Denmark, New Zealand, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and what other country feature in this order as the least corrupt countries in Transparency International's 2014 Corruptions Index?
What is an old European lawn game, still played in parts of England and Wales, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, from which ten-pin bowling, duckpin bowling, and candlepin bowling in the USA, and five-pin bowling in Canada are descended?
Which mountain range stretches from Austria and Slovenia in the east, through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west?
