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Satellite image of Europe by night 1916 physical map of Europe Topography of Europe. Some geographical texts refer to a Eurasian continent given that Europe is not surrounded by sea and its southeastern border has always been variously defined for centuries. In terms of shape, Europe is a collection of connected peninsulas and nearby islands.
The European Atlas of the Seas is an interactive web-based atlas that provides information on the coasts and seas within and around Europe, detailing Europe's marine environment. It is freely accessible online. The latest version of the Atlas was released on 16 September 2020, available in the 24 official languages of the European Union.
A map illustrating various definitions of the boundaries between Asia and Europe A physical map of Europe from 1880, depicting the entirety of the Caucasus as part of the European continent. [70] The threefold division of the Old World into Africa, Asia, and Europe has been in use since the 6th century BC by early Greek geographers such as ...
The border of Europe and Asia is here defined as from the Kara Sea, along the Ural Mountains and Ural River to the Caspian Sea.While the crest of the Caucasus Mountains is the geographical border with Asia in the south, Georgia, and to a lesser extent Armenia and Azerbaijan, are politically and culturally often associated with Europe; rivers in these countries are therefore included.
The Danube (pictured in Budapest), is the longest river in the European Union. The most important rivers in the European Union are Danube, Rhine, Elbe, Oder, Vistula, Seine, and Rhône, among others. European Union rivers by discharge. Danube - 6,450 m 3 /s; Rhine - 2,315 m 3 /s; Rhône - 1,900 m 3 /s (Waal - 1,500 m 3 /s as main distributary ...
A New Map of Europe According to the Newest Observations (1721) by Hermann Moll draws the eastern boundary of Europe along the Don River flowing south-west and the Tobol, Irtysh and Ob rivers flowing north. 1916 political map of Europe showing most of Moll's waterways replaced by von Strahlenberg's Ural Mountains and Freshfield's Caucasus crest ...
Template. : Europe and seas labelled map. Clickable map of Europe, showing the standard convention for its continental boundary with Asia. (see boundary between Europe and Asia for more information). Legend: = Contiguous transcontinental states; = Sometimes considered European but geographically outside Europe's boundaries. Categories: Europe ...
The continent of Europe comprise a large part of the Palearctic ecozone, with many unique biomes and ecoregions. Biogeographically, Europe is tied closely to Siberia, commonly known as the Euro-Siberian region. The European Environmental Agency (EEA) divides Europe into a total of eleven terrestrial biogeographical regions and seven regional seas.