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The list below includes all entities falling even partially under any of the various common definitions of Europe, geographical or political.Fifty generally recognised sovereign states, Kosovo with limited, but substantial, international recognition, and four largely unrecognised de facto states with limited to no recognition have territory in Europe and/or membership in international European ...
Below is a list of European countries and dependencies by area in Europe. [1] As a continent , Europe's total geographical area is about 10 million square kilometres. [ 2 ] Transcontinental countries are ranked according to the size of their European part only, excluding Greece due to the not clearly defined boundaries of its islands between ...
Participating nations at the opening ceremony of the 1908 Games in London. Early Games were not clearly documented with respect to participating nations. Competitors from 11 to 16 nation participated in the inaugural 1896 Games, in Athens. Eleven nations ( Australia, Austria, Denmark, Great Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Sweden ...
The superimposed Slovakian arms feature a dominant white cross atop a blue symbolic reference to the European country's mountains. 1991– Slovenia See also: List of Slovenian flags: The flag of Slovenia was officially adopted on 24 June 1991. Red, white, and blue are taken from the Carniolan coat of arms. The flag without the coat of arms was ...
499–493 BCE Ionian Revolt. 492–490 BCE First Persian invasion of Greece. 482–479 BCE Second Persian invasion of Greece. 480–307 BCE Sicilian Wars. 460–445 BCE First Peloponnesian War. 449–448 BCE Second Sacred War. 440–439 BCE Samian War. 431–404 BCE Second Peloponnesian War. 404–403 BCE Phyle Campaign.
This is a list of countries and territories by the United Nations geoscheme, including 193 UN member states, two UN observer states (the Holy See [note 1] and the State of Palestine), two states in free association with New Zealand (the Cook Islands and Niue), and 49 non-sovereign dependencies or territories, as well as Western Sahara (a disputed territory whose sovereignty is contested) and ...
Notes are provided where territorial disputes or inconsistencies affect the listings. Some couples such as Denmark , Netherlands , Spain (Canary Islands) and Portugal (Azores Islands) have part of their territory and their high points outside of Europe; their non-European high points are mentioned in the Notes.
In terms of shape, Europe is a collection of connected peninsulas and nearby islands. The two largest peninsulas are Europe itself and Scandinavia to the north, divided from each other by the Baltic Sea. Three smaller peninsulas— Iberia, Italy, and the Balkans —emerge from the southern margin of the mainland.