Europe
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Europe is a continent. Geologically, Europe is the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia. It is located west of Asia and north of Africa. Europe has a population of about 710 million that speaks many different regional languages, in most cases one language per country. Europe's population density is one of the highest in the world.
The United Kingdom and Ireland are countries located on islands in the northwest of Europe. Politically and economically, they belong to Europe (like Iceland too), but some inhabitants of the British Isles tend to consider themselves outside Europe in a certain sense when they use the term Europe to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles.
Etymology
Derived from the ancient Sumerian and Semitic root "Ereb", which carries the meaning of "darkness" or "descent", a reference to the region's western location in relation to Mesopotamia, the Levantine Coast, Anatolia, and the Bosporus. Thus the term would have meant the "land of the setting of the Sun" or, more generically, "Western land".
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