European Countries Wheel Spinner

This wheel picks a random European country, which is the quickest way to hand out geography projects or pick where to go next without a two-hour discussion.

All 43 European countries are on the wheel, so it lands on Moldova, Andorra or North Macedonia as often as on France or Germany.

Which is precisely the problem the wheel is meant to solve. Left to choose, both students and travellers keep returning to the same five, which is exactly what a full wheel fixes. Spinning the full list turns up Slovenia, Estonia, Albania and Moldova - countries with real histories that rarely make it onto a classroom project list or an itinerary.

For trip planning it works best as a shortlist shaker rather than an oracle. Put the eight places you have been meaning to visit on the wheel and spin. Watching one of them get picked tends to clarify which one you actually wanted, faster than another evening of comparing flight prices.

Turn on "Remove after spin" for classroom draws so each student gets a different country.

What is on the wheel

All 43 of them, already loaded:

• Albania
• Andorra
• Austria
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Czechia
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Iceland
• Ireland
• Italy
• Latvia
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Malta
• Moldova
• Monaco
• Montenegro
• Netherlands
• North Macedonia
• Norway
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Russia
• San Marino
• Serbia
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Ukraine
• United Kingdom