Europe is the second smallest continent on Earth. Europe and Asia share the same landmass. But because this landmass is so large, geographers have separated this huge landmass into two continents.
Surface area: 9,938,000 km2
Location: Northern hemisphere
Major countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Germany, Poland, Spain, France, Italy, Turkey, Hungary and Bulgaria
Important physical features:
♦ Mountains: The Alps, Pyrenees, Apennines and Balkans, helped to create defensible borders between areas
♦ Rivers: Danube, Rhine, Rhone, Loire, Elbe, Vistula and Volga
♦ Seas: Mediterranean, Baltic, North, and Black Seas
Major languages: Danish, Dutch, English, German, Swedish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian
Eurasia is the combined name of two continents, Europe and Asia. Sometimes, they are referred as a single continent ‘Eurasia’.
