
Europe is a subcontinent that comprises the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia. It’s usually divided from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, the Caucasus and Ural Mountains and waterways that connect the Black and Aegean Seas together. The continent’s estimated 2016 population is over 738 million.
Europe is the second-smallest continent by surface area and covers 10.18 million square kilometres (3.93 million square miles), or 2% of the Earth’s surface a...
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