Second biggest country in Europe and they've spent the last few years reminding everyone not to underestimate that.
Fun fact: Kyiv's Arsenalna metro station sits 105.5 metres underground, making it the deepest in the world.
Somehow ended up with a language that's half Arabic half Italian, which honestly sums the place up.
Fun fact: Malta's megalithic temples predate the Egyptian pyramids and Stonehenge by over a thousand years.