Europe, the second smallest of the continents (after Oceania) and the most
densely populated; The area includes (incl. European Russia) 10.5 million km2
with approximately 700 million residents.Europe - moon
Europe, Jupiter's fourth largest moon. Its radius is 1569 km, its mass 4.8 x
10 22 kg, and its distance to Jupiter 670,900 km. Europe has a
uniform red to beige color, and its surface is crisscrossed by countless
partially curved curves that appear darker than the surroundings. There is
almost no surface relief in Europe; none of the structures are over a few
hundred meters high. Europe has remarkably few craters, and the surface must
therefore be very young. The density of the moon is approximately 3.0 g/cm
3, which means that it contains a lot of ice consisting of light
molecules. This together with the young surface indicates the presence of a
frozen ocean or an extremely icy crust up to 50 km thick. Measurements from the
Galileo spacecraft have made it probable that there is liquid water beneath
Europe's ice-covered exterior. It has made Europe one of the leading candidates
to find non-terrestrial life in the Solar System.

Europe - geography
According to
ABBREVIATIONFINDER, Europe can be seen both as a continent and as the
peninsula that ends the Eurasian mainland to the west. One speaks of a continent
because Europe has had the significance of a continent, but the delimitation to
Asia lacks the natural geographical and geological basis, which is otherwise the
basis for the division into continents. The perception of Europe as a continent
is old, known in many variants and has left many traces inside and outside
Europe.
Boundary, garden and coasts
Normally, the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea and the
Caucasus Mountains or the Maltese Mountains north of this are considered as a
border with Asia. Europe's other borders are gardens and alleys, which are easy
to see in the landscape and on the map. To the east and south the Black Sea, the
Bosphorus, the Marmara Sea and the Dardanelles, the Aegean Sea, the
Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar. To the west the Atlantic Ocean
and to the north the Arctic Ocean. This demarcation separates waters, rivers and
mountain ranges, but crosses important traffic lines and significant
distribution patterns. This applies to political, population and infrastructural
contexts in Russia and straits and sea areas that connect rather than separate
cultural landscapes, such as the Aegean Sea, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles.
Garden. Europe is in the middle of the country hemisphere, but 1/3of
the land area are islands and peninsulas. The Rand Sea North Sea continues in
the Danish straits and the Baltic Sea, which cuts deep into the country. The
Mediterranean, the Black Sea and the connecting waters are surrounded by the
European-Asian-African landmass. Numerous larger and smaller bays and fjords
increase the division. Straits and marginal seas separate large islands such as
the British Isles, Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia and Crete from mainland Europe. In
the archipelagos of the Scandinavian Peninsula and along the coasts of the
Adriatic and the Ionian and Aegean Seas, there are swarms of larger and smaller
islands. The total coastline, which is usually estimated at 40,000-60,000 km,
illustrates the strong division. Over large parts of Europe there are only small
distances to a coast, and Europe is the lowest of the continents with an average
altitude of 300 m. Very large parts of the continent are actually lowlands; thus
the Northern European Plain, which stretches in a belt from the English Channel
to the Urals, the Hungarian Plain, the Posletten and others.
The oceans around Europe contain important fishing grounds, such as the North
Sea, the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea. European fishermen are also found to
a large extent in fishing grounds far from the coasts of the continent, e.g. at
Newfoundland and Greenland.
The raw materials of the seabed are subject to growing exploitation. Oil and
gas extraction in the North Sea is a well-known but far from unique example.
Fossil energy from the North Sea area has created economic growth in many cities
and regions, such as Western Norway, Norway, North Holland and a number of
cities on the UK's east coast, but the oil and gas fields also contribute to the
North Sea's environmental impact. A table of European countries, capitals,
population and area can be found on
Countryaah - Countries
in Europe.
The coasts. Highlands and mountains end at many European Atlantic and
Mediterranean coasts of cliffs or steep cliffs. In long coastlines that, like
the Dalmatian, follow the mountain range, there are few natural accesses to the
hinterland. Where the mountains, as in the southern Peloponnese or on many
British coasts, run across the coast, natural harbors provide easy access to the
areas behind it. Coastal landscapes that, like the northern coasts of Brittany
and Spain, have been sunk in recent times (Ria coasts), are known on
funnel-shaped estuaries. Low, exposed coasts are often offset by several French
and Portuguese Atlantic coasts, the north- and west-facing Baltic coasts and a
number of stretches along the Mediterranean; many of these shores are
accompanied by a dune belt. Coastal landscapes with strong tides have their
special character, as seen along the southern North Sea and France's Atlantic
coast.
World trade highways follow European waters such as the North Sea, Biscay and
the Mediterranean, and important seaways radiate from Europe's major port
cities. High-turnover ports are part of European metropolitan areas or in their
infrastructure, and states' interest in port cities can be high. Current
examples are the enclave of Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in former East Prussia,
which Russia clings to, and the Bosnians' attempts to secure recognized access
to the Adriatic.
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