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EASTERN EUROPE

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Continent profile

Europe is the second smallest continent in the World, after Oceania. It extends on 10 530 751 km², representing 7% of the immersed grounds.

Most important cities: Bruxels, Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Nice, Madrid, Barcelona, Geneva, Bern, Rome, Milan, Lisboa, London, Manchester, Liverpool, Dublin, Edinburgh, Berlin, Vienna, Kiev, Amsterdam, Athens, Moscow

Demographics: Total population of the European Union in 2005 is around 455 million people.

Languages: It is clear that there is no official language in Europe, even in the European Union. However, here are the main languages spoken in this part of the world calles the Old Continent: English, German, French, Spanish -Castilian-, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Portuguese… It is also important to mention that there is a multitude of regional languages or dialects in the different countries that makes the European Continent.

Geography: Europe is the flattest continent with an average height of 230 meters. The highest tops are: Mount Elbrus (Russia) in eastern Europe (5642 m), el Shkara (Georgia) (5204m), and the Mont Blanc (France) in western Europe (4807m).
Among the most important European Gulfs, let us mention the Gulf of Vizcaya (France-Spain) and the Gulf of Botania (Sweden-Finland). The most important European straits are the followings: Straits of Pas-de-Calais (France-United Kingdom), Gibraltar (Spain-Marocco) and the Dardanelles Strait (Turkey), the Bosphorus Strait (Turkey), the Strait of Messina (italy) and the one in Orensund (Denmark-Sweden), etc.
The main European peninsulas are : The scandinavian peninsulas (Sweden Norway), the Iberian peninsula (Spain Portugal), the Italic peninsula (Italy, San Marino, Vaticano), peninsula of Balkan (Greece Albania). It also seems important to mention the peninsula of Kola (Russia), Jutlandia (Denmark), Bretagne (France) and Crimea (Ukraine).

Climate: The European continent is a large extent tempered zone. Its nonsingle climate also varies of north to the south but of the west to this because of continental marine and continental the marine and polar tropical airflow and airflows polar, to a lesser extent tropical. In the Mediteranean countries such as Spain, italy, Greece and the South of France, temperatures are higher. On the other hand, countries located in the middle of Europe do not profit of so good temperatures. Countries like Poland, Hungary, Austria and others, have very cold and dry winters.