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  2. Europe - Wikipedia

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    c. ^ "Europe" as defined by the International Monetary Fund. Europe is a continent [t] located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east.

  3. Geography of Europe - Wikipedia

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    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 two largest peninsulas are Europe itself and Scandinavia to ...

  4. Americas - Wikipedia

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    019 – Americas 001 – World. 1990s CIA political map of the Americas in Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection. The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, [5] [6] [7] are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. [8] [9] [10] The Americas make up most of the land in Earth 's Western Hemisphere and comprise the ...

  5. List of fault zones - Wikipedia

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    Location Sense of Movement Time of movement Associated Earthquakes Sources Aedipsos-Kandili Fault: 60: North Euboean Gulf, Greece: Normal: Active: Alaska-Aleutian Megathrust: 4000: Kamchatka, Russia to Gulf of Alaska: Subduction zone: Active: 1964 Prince William Sound (M9.2), 1965 Rat Islands (M8.7), 1957 Andreanof Islands (M8.6) Alpine Fault: 600

  6. List of locations with a subtropical climate - Wikipedia

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    A great portion of the world's deserts are located within the subtropics, due to the development of the subtropical ridge. Within the humid monsoon regions in the subtropics such as Northern Vietnam (including Hanoi), a wet season is seen annually during the summer, which is when most of the yearly rainfall falls.

  7. Iceland - Wikipedia

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    Iceland ( Icelandic: Ísland, pronounced [ˈistlant] ⓘ) [d] is a Nordic island country between the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is linked culturally and politically with Europe and is the region's most sparsely populated country. [12] Its capital and largest city is ...

  8. South-up map orientation - Wikipedia

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    A south-up map of the world centered on the western Pacific Ocean and splitting the Atlantic Ocean The Blue Marble photograph in its original orientation. South-up map orientation is the orientation of a map with south up, at the top of the map, amounting to a 180-degree rotation of the map from the standard convention of north-up.

  9. Four continents - Wikipedia

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    The four continents, plus Australia, added later. Europeans in the 16th century divided the world into four continents: Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. [1] Each of the four continents was seen to represent its quadrant of the world—Africa in the south, America in the west, Asia in the east, and Europe in the north.

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