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44 countries
Albania has the sort of honey landscape that gets more interesting the closer you look. Mountain country, Mediterranean vegetation, chestnut forests, thyme, clover and pine all feed…
Explore country →Tiny Andorra may turn out to be one of Europe's most enjoyable honey countries for Atlas. Here, altitude can change a honey within only a few kilometers.…
Explore country →Austria is big honey country built mostly from small beekeepers rather than giant operations. The Austrian agriculture ministry counted 36,369 beekeepers and 480,475 colonies in 2024, while…
Explore country →Belarus has one of the oldest living beekeeping stories in Europe. In the forests and wetlands of Polesia, families still maintain the tradition of tree beekeeping—keeping bees…
Explore country →Belgium has a surprisingly strong honey story. In February 2025, Miel wallon became a protected geographical indication, tying the honey specifically to Wallonia and to a regional…
Explore country →Bosnia and Herzegovina has several very different honey stories packed into one small country. In the northwest, chestnut forests around Cazin and Bosanska Krupa produce honeys distinct…
Explore country →Bulgaria is serious honey country. Official agricultural statistics recorded 816,600 colonies in October 2023, with 659,000 used for honey production and 11,189 tonnes harvested that year. Its…
Explore country →Croatia is almost a ready-made honey map. Instead of one nationally famous honey, it has a growing collection of place-protected honeys tied to very different landscapes: Slavonian…
Explore country →Czechia's honey story is built less around a few giant producers and more around a dense culture of smaller beekeepers. One Czech study analyzed 5,987 honey samples…
Explore country →Denmark offers three honey stories that barely resemble one another. On Jutland heathlands, bees gather heather nectar for dark, strongly flavored honey. On the island of Læsø,…
Explore country →Estonia's honey landscape is built around short summers, forests, meadows and a managed bee population that has changed dramatically over time. A 2026 genetics study places Estonia…
Explore country →Finland asks bees to do a year's work inside an unusually short northern summer. In 2024 the country had about 2,900 beekeepers and 86,544 wintered colonies, while…
Explore country →France is practically a honey continent. More than 63,000 beekeepers manage roughly 1.8 million production hives, while lavender country, chestnut forests, mountains, sunflower fields, linden, acacia and…
Explore country →Germany has an enormous beekeeper population, but surprisingly few are professionals. The German Beekeepers Association estimates about 143,000 beekeepers and 964,000 colonies, with 96% keeping no more…
Explore country →Greece may be one of Europe's most complicated and rewarding honey countries. Dry mountains, pine forests, islands and aromatic Mediterranean plants create honeys that often look and…
Explore country →Hungary and acacia honey are almost inseparable. The country's huge stands of black locust—called acacia in European honey culture—produce the pale, mild honey that Hungary officially recognizes…
Explore country →Iceland is honey at the edge of what seems reasonable. Honeybees are not native to the island, so modern Icelandic beekeeping depends on introduced colonies able to…
Explore country →Ireland has something much of northern Europe has lost: a large surviving population of the European dark honeybee, Apis mellifera mellifera. A nationwide genetic study sampled bees…
Explore country →Italy is almost ridiculously well suited to Honey Chronicles. CREA describes about 1.6 million hives managed by nearly 82,000 beekeepers, producing more than 30 commercially important monofloral…
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Explore country →Liechtenstein is so small that its honey landscape naturally spills across borders. In Schaan, beekeeper Marco Jehle-Radkohl keeps bees using biodynamic methods, while his Rheinstoff project tends…
Explore country →Lithuania's honey story reaches far beyond the modern wooden hive. In Stripeikiai, Aukštaitija, the Museum of Ancient Beekeeping preserves a tradition stretching back centuries, complete with old…
Explore country →Luxembourg may be tiny, but it has already done something HC cares deeply about: tied honey to place, beekeeper and batch. The national Lëtzebuerger Hunneg system divides…
Explore country →Malta may be one of the smallest countries in Europe, but its honey calendar is spectacularly distinct. Spring brings pale multifloral honey; summer belongs to the island's…
Explore country →Moldova is showing us in real time how weather can rewrite a honey harvest. In 2025, spring frost and rain devastated the acacia crop and badly reduced…
Explore country →Monaco may be one of the strangest honey landscapes in Europe because almost the entire story is urban. Beehives sit on rooftops and terraces in one of…
Explore country →Montenegro is small enough to cross in a day, but its bees can forage in an astonishing variety of landscapes. The country's new Atlas of Honey Plants…
Explore country →The Netherlands hides some surprisingly old honey traditions inside a thoroughly modern landscape. The Veluwe turns purple with common heather in late summer, producing a thick, strongly…
Explore country →North Macedonia may already have the most famous beekeeper in this entire European project. Hatidže Muratova, whose traditional wild-bee practice became the heart of the documentary Honeyland,…
Explore country →Norwegian beekeepers work within a narrow seasonal window, but the landscape rewards them with some remarkable honeys. The country's signature is heather honey, produced when colonies are…
Explore country →Poland is one of Europe's major beekeeping countries, but the most interesting thing is how much of that industry still lives in relatively small apiaries. A 2025…
Explore country →Portugal may have one of Europe's strongest protected-honey maps. The country's official traditional-products database contains a remarkable series of PDO honeys—from the dark heather honey of Serra…
Explore country →Romania's honey landscape is driven by a remarkable collision of forest, farmland and mountains. Acacia, linden, rapeseed, sunflower, honeydew and polyfloral honeys are repeatedly identified among the…
Explore country →Russia's size makes the phrase “Russian honey” almost meaningless. Honey from the Bashkir Urals may come from linden forests or even hollow trees occupied by a protected…
Explore country →San Marino just surprised me. For a country of barely 61 square kilometers, it has a remarkably organized beekeeping system. An official census reported 81 registered beekeepers…
Explore country →Serbia is a country where honey geography and bee genetics have both been rearranged by modern beekeeping. The eastern Homolje region is famous enough for its honey…
Explore country →Slovakia has a beautiful honey split between lowland blossom country and mountain forest honey. Acacia is one of the best-known monoflorals, while forest honeydew and wild raspberry…
Explore country →Slovenia isn't simply good at beekeeping; it has organized part of its national identity around bees. With only about two million people, the country reported more than…
Explore country →Spain is one of Europe's true honey giants, and 2026 made its map even richer. Official Ministry data put the 2024 harvest at 33,134 tonnes, up roughly…
Explore country →Sweden's honey is shaped by latitude, long summer days and landscapes that change dramatically from southern farmland to northern forest. The Swedish Board of Agriculture currently estimates…
Explore country →Switzerland produces only about 3,000 tonnes of honey per year, roughly one-third of domestic demand, but the small national harvest hides an unusually varied honey landscape. Agroscope…
Explore country →Ukraine's honey map is being formally defined at the same time that war is making beekeeping extraordinarily difficult. In July 2024, Zakarpattia Honey became a registered Ukrainian…
Explore country →The United Kingdom finally gained its first geographically protected honey in 2025, when Welsh Heather Honey received PGI status. It is a fitting choice: late-summer ling heather…
Explore country →Vatican City may be the most useful “don't fake the data” example in the entire European research pass. The Vatican Gardens occupy roughly 22 hectares—about half of…
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