Most of the world still mixes it up with Australia, which must get old at passport control.
Fun fact: Vienna's Tiergarten Schönbrunn has been open since 1752, making it the world's oldest operating zoo.
Managed to become the unofficial capital of Europe mostly by being too polite to say no.
Fun fact: Belgium went 541 days without an elected government in 2010–2011, a world record at the time.