Europe
Continent, also recognised as a part of Eurasia, located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Ural Mountains
The Ural Mountains (Урал тауҙары, Ural tauźarı) or simply the Urals, are a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western Russia, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the river Ural and northwestern Kazakhstan.
The mountain range forms part of the conventional boundary between the regions of Europe and Asia.
Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.
List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Europe
The list below includes all entities falling even partially under any of the various common definitions of Europe, geographical or political.
Afro-Eurasia
Afro-Eurasia (also Afroeurasia or Eurafrasia ) is a landmass comprising the continents of Africa, Asia, and Europe.
Mediterranean Sea
Sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant.
The Mediterranean Sea covers an area of about 2500000 km2, representing 0.7% of the global ocean surface, but its connection to the Atlantic via the Strait of Gibraltar—the narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates the Iberian Peninsula in Europe from Morocco in Africa—is only 14 km wide.
Russia
Transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia.
It is the ninth-most populous country and the most populous country in Europe, with a population of 145.5 million.
Western culture
Heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.
![Medieval Christians believed that to seek the geometric, physical and mathematical principles that govern the world was to seek and worship God. Detail of a scene in the bowl of the letter 'P' with a woman with a set-square and dividers; using a compass to measure distances on a diagram. In her left hand she holds a square, an implement for testing or drawing right angles. She is watched by a group of students. In the Middle Ages, it is unusual to see women represented as teachers, in particular when the students appear to be monks. She is most likely the personification of Geometry, based on Martianus Capella's famous book De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii [5th c.], a standard source for allegorical imagery of the seven liberal arts. Illustration at the beginning of Euclid's Elementa, in the translation attributed to Adelard of Bath.](https://hyperleap.com/images/342d370271f221fa0ff2fa0e7abb5eea/200-d9fd8e82cde8f6eabc244fc633a91238.jpg)
The term applies beyond Europe to countries and cultures whose histories are strongly connected to Europe by immigration, colonization or influence.
North America
Continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere.
North America is the third-largest continent by area, following Asia and Africa, and the fourth by population after Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Turkish Straits
The Turkish Straits (Türk Boğazları) are two internationally significant waterways in northwestern Turkey.
Located in the western part of the landmass of Eurasia, the Straits are conventionally considered the boundary between the continents of Europe and Asia, as well as the dividing line between European Turkey and Asian Turkey.