Quote Originally Posted by TenkiSoratoti_ View Post
Can anyone name another country with so many distinct variations in accent spread over so little an area? Genuine question, not rhetorical.
(British) English has a lovely set of local and cultural variants. However, as a rather modern language in an easily traversable and centralised country, its local variants pale in comparison with some other languages.

One of the coolest in Europe is Romansh. A form of vulgar Latin. It is spoken by less than 50.000 people, confined to one single canton. Spoken in the most mountainous regions of Switzerland, it varies considerably from one isolated valley to the next.

And Romansh is but one of the languages of Rhaeto-Romance. The others can be found in equally isolated Alpine regions in Italy and Austria. Each one a different language, split in turn into even more local dialects that are nearly mutually unintelligable.
The Alps are full of Latin languages that differ as much from one another as Spanish from Portuguese, and that are spoken by only a handful of people.