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Europe is one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one, leading to various perspectives about Europe's borders. Physically and geologically, Europe is a subcontinent or large peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia and west of Asia.

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Aberdeen Adeje Albufeira Alicante Amsterdam Antwerp Athens Avignon Barcelona Basel Bath Beaune Belfast Benidorm Bergen Berlin Biarritz Bilbao Birmingham Blackpool Bologna Bordeaux Bournemouth Bremen Brighton Bristol Bruges Brussels Bucharest Budapest Cala Ratjada Can Picafort Cannes Carcassonne Cardiff Catania Chester Cologne Copenhagen Cordoba Corfu Cork Costa Teguise Coventry Dijon Dortmund Dresden Dublin Dubrovnik Dusseldorf Edinburgh Essen Exeter Florence Frankfurt Funchal Galway Gdansk Geneva Glasgow Gothenburg Granada Grenoble Hamburg Hannover Helsinki Heraklion Ibiza Innsbruck Interlaken Inverness Ischia Killarney Kos Krakow Lagos Lausanne Leeds Leipzig Lido Di Jesolo Lille Limerick Lisbon Liverpool London Lourdes Lucca Lucerne Luxembourg Lyon Madrid Malaga Manchester Marbella Marseille Maspalomas Milan Montecatini Terme Montpellier Moscow Munich Nantes Naples Nice Nottingham Oslo Oviedo Oxford Paguera Paignton Palermo Pamplona Paris Perugia Pisa Playa Del Ingles Plymouth Porto Prague Reading Rennes Reykjavik Rhodes Riccione Riga Rimini Rome Rotterdam Salamanca Salou Salzburg San Antonio Abad Scarborough Seville Sheffield Siena Sitges Sofia Sorrento Stockholm Strasbourg Stuttgart Syracuse Tallinn Taormina Thessaloniki Thira Toledo Torquay Torremolinos Toulouse Tours Turin Valencia Venice Verona Vilnius Warsaw Wiesbaden Windermere York Zaragoza Zermatt Zurich

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Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea, and–according to the traditional geographic definition–to the southeast by the waterways adjoining the Mediterranean to and including the Black Sea, and the Caucasus Mountains (in Caucasia). Europe's eastern frontier is vague, but has traditionally been given as the divide of the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea to the southeast. The Urals are considered by most to be a geographical and tectonic landmark separating Asia from Europe.

World's Second Smallest Continent
Europe is the world's second-smallest continent in terms of area, covering about 10,390,000 square kilometres (4,010,000 sq mi) or 2.0% of the Earth's surface. The only continent smaller is Australia. In terms of population, it is the third-largest continent (Asia and Africa are larger) with a population of more than 710,000,000, or about 11% of the world's population.

European Union
The European Union, comprising 25 member states, is the largest political and economic entity covering the European continent, with the Russian Federation being the second (excluding the portions of Russia historically considered to be in Asia).

Land relief in Europe shows great variation within relatively small areas. The southern regions, however, are more mountainous, while moving north the terrain descends from the high Alps, Pyrenees and Carpathians, through hilly uplands, into broad, low northern plains, which are vast in the east. This extended lowland is known as the Great European Plain, and at its heart lies the North German Plain. An arc of uplands also exists along the northwestern seaboard, beginning in the western British Isles and continuing along the mountainous, fjord-cut spine of Norway.

This description is simplified. Sub-regions such as Iberia and Italy contain their own complex features, as does mainland Europe itself, where the relief contains many plateaus, river valleys and basins that complicate the general trend. Iceland and the British Isles are special cases. The former is a land unto itself in the northern ocean which is counted as part of Europe, while the latter are upland areas that were once joined to the mainland until rising sea levels cut them off.

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