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"Your
life is an island separated from all other islands and
continents . Regardless of how many boats you send to other
shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself
are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its
happiness ” Kahlil Gibran
Europe
Europe
( pronunciation:
/ ˈ jʊər ə p /
YEWR -əp
or
/ ˈ j ɜr ə p /
YUR -əp )
is, by convention, one of the world's seven
continents .
It is also known as the old continent. Comprising the
westernmost
peninsula
of
Eurasia ,
Europe is generally
'divided'
from
Asia
to its east by the
watershed divides
of the
Ural
and
Caucasus
Mountains, the
Ural River ,
the
Caspian
and
Black
Seas, and the
waterways
connecting the Black and
Aegean
Seas. Europe is bordered by the
Arctic Ocean
and other bodies of water to the north, the
Atlantic Ocean
to the west, the
Mediterranean Sea
to the south, and the Black Sea and connected waterways to the
southeast. Yet the borders of Europe—a concept dating back to
classical antiquity —are
somewhat arbitrary, as the primarily
physiographic
term "continent" can incorporate
cultural and political
elements . Europe is the
world's
second-smallest
continent by surface area, covering about 10,180,000 square
kilometres (3,930,000 sq mi) or 2% of the Earth's surface and
about 6.8% of its land area. Of Europe's approximately 50
states,
Russia
is the largest by both area and population (although the
country has territory in both Europe and Asia), while the
Vatican City
is the smallest. Europe is the third-most populous continent
after Asia and
Africa ,
with a
population
of 733 million or about 11% of the
world's population .
Europe, in particular
Ancient Greece ,
is the birthplace of
Western culture .
It played a predominant role in global affairs from the 15th
century onwards, especially after the beginning of
colonialism .
Between the 16th and 20th centuries, European nations
controlled at various times
the Americas ,
most of Africa ,
Oceania ,
and large portions of Asia. Both
World Wars
were largely focused upon Europe, greatly contributing to a
decline in
Western European
dominance in world affairs by the mid-20th century as the
United States
and
Soviet Union
took prominence. During the
Cold War ,
Europe was divided along the
Iron Curtain
between
NATO
in the west and the
Warsaw Pact
in the east.
European integration
led to the formation of the
Council of Europe
and the
European Union
in
Western Europe ,
both of which have been expanding eastward since the
fall of the Soviet Union
in 1991. " Source
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