Geography of Europe

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Danube River• The Danube (/ˈdænjuːb/ DAN-

ewb), is Europe's second-longest river, located in Central and Eastern Europe.

• The Danube was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire, and today flows through 10 nations. Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for 1,914 km (1,189 mi), passing through or touching the border of Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine before emptying into the Black Sea. Its drainage basin extends into nine more nations.

Rhine River• The Rhine is a European river

that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps, forms part of the Swiss-Austrian, Swiss- Liechtenstein border, Swiss-German and then the Franco-German border, then flows through the Rhineland and eventually empties into the North Sea in the Netherlands. It is the second longest river in Central and Western Europe (after the Danube), at about 1,230 km (760 mi)

European Plain

Scandinavian Peninsula

• The Scandinavian Peninsula is a peninsula in Northern Europe, which today covers Norway, Sweden and most of northern Finland.

• The Scandinavian Peninsula is the largest peninsula of Europe, larger than the Balkan, the Iberian and the Italian peninsulas.

Iberian Peninsula• The Iberian Peninsula also

known as Iberia is a peninsula located in the southwest corner of Europe. With an area of approximately 582,000 km2 (225,000 sq mi), it is the third largest European peninsula, after the Scandinavian and Balkan peninsulas. The peninsula is divided between four states: Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and France; as well as Gibraltar, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom.

Ural Mountains• The Ural Mountains 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 Ural River and northwestern Kazakhstan.[1] The mountain range forms the natural boundary between Europe and Asia.

• The mountains are rich in various deposits, including metal ores, coal, precious and semi-precious stones.

Pyrennes• The Pyrenees is a

range of mountains in southwest Europe that forms a natural border between France and Spain. It separates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of continental Europe, and extends for about 491 km (305 mi) from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean Sea

The Alps

• The Alps are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe,[1] stretching approximately 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) across eight Alpine countries: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Slovenia, and Switzerland.[2]

Mediterranean Sea• The Mediterranean Sea) is a sea connected to the

Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa. The sea is sometimes considered a part of the Atlantic Ocean, although it is usually identified as a separate body of water.

English Channel• The English Channel also called

simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France, and joins the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.

• It is about 560 km (350 mi) long and varies in width from 240 km (150 mi) at its widest to 33.1 km (20.6 mi) in the Strait of Dover.[1] It is the smallest of the shallow seas around the continental shelf of Europe, covering an area of some 75,000 square kilometers.