Europe

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Europe is geologically an geographically a hauf-island, takkin up the wastrenmaist pairt o Eurasie. It is for ordinar conseedert a continent, that, in this case, is mair a cultural nor a geographic differ. It is bund in the north bi the Airctic Ocean, in the wast bi the Atlantic Ocean, in the sooth bi the Mediterrane Sea an the Black Sea, an in the east bi the Ural Moontains an the Caspian Sea.

Gin conseedert a continent, Europe is the secont-smaaest continent in the warld bi area, wi an area o 10,523,000 km²European Continent/Map of Europe, Map Universal (4,140,625 square mile), sicwice it is mair muckle nor anly Australie. In population it is the thrid-lairgest continent efter Asie an Africae. The population o Europe is aboot  745 million: aboot 10% o the warld's population.

The cultur o Europe is made up o a mix o national an regional culturs, that form the main ruit o the braider Wastren civilisation; thegither they aften luik back tae Auncient Greece an Rome, especially throu their Christian successors. Stertin wi the faa o the Wastren Roman Empire in 476 CE, the Christian consolidation o Europe in the wake o the Migration Period merkit the European post-classical Middle Ages. The Italian Renaissance spreid a new humanist interest in airt an science across the continent, takkin us intae the modern era. Syne the Age o Discovery, led by Spain and Portugal, Europe played a big role in global affairs wi various explorations an conquests aa ower the warld. Atween the 16t and 20t centuries, European pouers colonised the Americaes, aamaist aa o Africae an Oceanie, an maist o Asie at different times.

The Age o Enlightenment, the French Revolution, an the Napoleonic Wars shapit the continent culturally, politically, an economically frae the end o the 17t century tae the first hauf o the 19th century. The Industrial Revolution, that stertit in Greit Brítain at the end o the 18t century, brocht about radical economic, cultural, an social change in Wastren Europe an eventually the wider warld. Baith world wars stertit an war lairgely focht in Europe, contributin tae a decline in Wastren European dominance in global affairs by the mid-20t century as the Soviet Union an the Unitit States rose tae prominence and competit for control in Europe an warldwide. The resultin Cauld War split Europe alang the Iron Curtain, wi NATO in the Wast and the Warsaw Pact in the East. This divide cam tae an end wi the Revolutions of 1989, the faa o the Berlin Waa, and the brek-up o the Soviet Union, that alloued European integration tae mak big strides. European integration haes been pushed forrit institutionally syne 1948 wi the establishment o the Council of Europe, an significantly throu the creation o the European Union (EU), that represents the majority o Europe the day. The EU is a supranational political entity that sits somewhaur atween a confederation an a federation, based on a system o European treaties. The EU stertit in Wastren Europe but haes been expandin eastward syne the dissolution o the Soviet Union in 1991. Maist o its members use a common currency, the euro, an tak pairt in the European single mercat and a customs union. Forby, a big bloc o countries, the Schengen Area, haes duin away wi internal border an immigration controls. Regular popular elections are hauden ilka five year within the EU; they’re considered the seicond-lairgest democratic elections in the warld efter Indie’s. The EU is the third-largest economy in the warld.
 Regions in Europe 


Sub-diveesions o Europe is gey arbitrar, as nae consensus exists on the sindry defineetions that's proponed. Nae strict geographical conventions exists; this cairt represents, housomiver, the maist widespreid idea o whit kintras constitutes the sindry regions o the continent. Aften the regions includes differin kintras nor them that's on the cairt.

Some kintras haes territory in baith Europe an Asie (Roushie, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgie). Thair Asie territory is coloured licht pink. Some states that lies haily on the Asie continent is conseedered pairt o Europe acause o cultural an historical raisons (Armenie, Cyprus). Thay are coloured daurk-pink. Azerbaijan's exclave o Nakhchivan is coloured daurk-pink an aa acause it isna a conteenous extension o Azerbaijan's territory

Some typical geographical subregions o' Europe include:

 .Central an' Eastern Europe 
 Central Europe 
 Eastern Europe 
 Northern Europe
 No'th-central Europe 
 No'th-eastern Europe 
 No'th-wester Europe 
 Soothern Europe 
 Sooth-central Europe 
 Sooth-eastern Europe
 Sooth-wester Europe 
 Western Europe

 History 

 See an aw 
 Eurozone
 European Union
 Europium

References

 Fremit airtins 

 Europa, the Phoeneecian Princess – smat Zeus wi luve
 EUROPEstartpage.com, traivel an ceety guide tae Europe 
 Europe at Nicht  at NASA Observatory o the Yird
 Regions o Europe 
 Evropa / Europa / Europe

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