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Yes, half of Europe.

> Twenty eight seconds later, an electrical blackout had cascaded across Europe extending from Poland in the north-east, to the Benelux countries and France in the west, through to Portugal, Spain and Morocco in the south-west, and across to Greece and the Balkans in the south-east.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_European_blackout

There were even some TV documentaries about it, and in some areas it continued for days.




Parts of several countries were affected. Other parts had no outage. Depending on the view point, the blackouts a few years earlier in Italy and US were more widespread.




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