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:''For just a description of the Asia-Europe boundary, see [[Transcontinental nation#Europe and Asia|Europe and Asia]]. See also [[Copenhagen criteria#Geographic criteria|Geographic criteria for EU membership]].''

[[Image:LocationEurope.png|thumb|250px|right|World map showing Europe]]

[[Image:Europe countries map en.png|thumb|250px|right|Political map]]

[[Image:'''Europe''' countriesis mapone en.yuyuyuyuyuof the seven [[continent]]s of [[Earth]] which, in this case, is more a [[human geography|cultural and political]] distinction than a [[physical geography|physiographic]] one, leading to various perspectives about Europe's borders. Physically and [[geology|geologically]], Europe is a [[subcontinent]] or large [[peninsula]], forming the westernmost part of [[Eurasia]] and west of [[Asia]].

Europe is bounded to the north by the [[Arctic Ocean]], to the west by the [[Atlantic Ocean]], to the south by the [[Mediterranean Sea]], and–according to the traditional geographic definition–to the southeast by the waterways adjoining the Mediterranean to and including the [[Black Sea]], and the [[Caucasus Mountains]] (in [[Caucasus (geographic region)|Caucasia]]). Europe's eastern frontier is vague, but has traditionally been given as the [[water divide|divide]] of the [[Ural Mountains]] and the [[Caspian Sea]] to the southeast. The Urals are considered by most to be a geographical and tectonic landmark separating Asia from Europe.