Satellite View of Europe

Northern Peninsulas

Jutland Peninsula

Scandinavian Peninsula

Iberian Peninsula

Italian Peninsula

Balkan Peninsula

AnatoleanPeninsula

CrimeanPeninsula

Southern Peninsulas

Mediterranean Sea

North Sea

AtlanticOcean

Baltic Sea

BlackSea

Aegean Sea

TyrrhenianSea

Bay ofBiscay

ArcticOcean

CaspianSea

Alps Mts.

Caucasus Mts.

Mt. Etna ^

Mt. Vesuvius ^

Mt. Olympus ^

Cover most of Switzerland, Austria, and parts of Italy and France.

The Alps

Highest mountain in the Alps: 15,771 feet

Mt. Blanc in the Alps

Divides the European and Asian sections of Russia.

Ural Mountains: “The Great Divide”

The Ural Mountains

Tundra: The Not-So-Barren LandBelow the Arctic Circle

World Population by Continents

Asia 3,737,000,000

Africa 823,000,000

Europe 729,000,000

North America 486,000,000

South America 351,000,000

Oceania (incl. Australia) 31,000,000

Antarctica no permanent population

Members of the Indo-European Language Family

MajorReligiousGroups

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The Origin of the European People

Development of European Civilization

History at aGlance

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Southern

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