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Subject: India & World Geography
Topic: Europe
Latitude : 34051'N to 81047'N
Longitude : 24033'W to 69003'E
Population : 60 crores
Area: 1,04,98,000 sq. km.
Size : Second smallest continent in the world in area, after America.
Situation : Europe is situated between Ural Mountains in the east and the Atlantic Ocean in the west, in the west of Asia, and north of Africa. To the north of Europe lies Arctic Ocean, to the south lies the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains and to the East Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea.
Europe and Asia as one common landmass, is known as ‘Eurasia’.
¨Greatest extent, North-South : 4300 km
▪Greatest extent, East-West : 5600 km
Principal Countries
Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Yugoslavia.
Countries of Scandinavia
Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland are collectively known as Scandinavia.