The Blue Banana is just the biggest and bestknown of the bunch; Europe hides 11 other transnational bananas. Credit: Ruland Kolen/Claude A geography column on history and society. Underneath the political map of Europe’s nation-states simmers another reality: a tangle of economic and logistical corridors that transcend national borders. The best known of these is the Blue Banana. Many others aren’t as visible, and that is due to poor marketing: They lack an equally imaginative handle.