Europe

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Europe
Location of Europe
Largest cityMoscow
Area
• Total
10,180,000 km²
Population
• 2018 estimate
746,419,440


Europe is a continent that is separated from Asia by the Ural and Caucasus Mountains. It is the sixth largest continent and the third most populated.[1]

Geography

Europe has a 37,000 km coastline and is surrounded by the Baltic, Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Black Seas. It has numerous navigable rivers such as the Volga, Rhine, Danube, and Seine. The North European Plain is an open expanse stretching from Paris to Moscow.[2]

References

  1. World Population Prospects (2019). United Nations.
  2. Neil Faulkner (2013). A Marxist History of the World: From Neanderthals to Neoliberals: 'European Feudalism' (pp. 77–78). [PDF] Pluto Press. ISBN 9781849648639 [LG]