The New Childrens Encyclopedia

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Aalborg

Arkhangel’sk

Bergen

Bilbao

Bordeaux

Groznyy

le Havre

Lille

Manchester

Murmansk

Nantes

Palma

Simferopol’

Stavanger

Tampere

Trondheim

Belfast

Cardiff

Edinburgh

Gdansk

Lyon

Strasbourg

Toulouse

Venice

Cagliari

Irákleio

Lárisa

Naples Salonica

Astrakhan’

Frankfurt

am Main

Gothenburg

Kaliningrad

L’viv

Marseille

Orenburg

Saratov

Vitsyebsk

Voronezh

Zaragoza

Glasgow

Palermo

Valencia

Barcelona

Birmingham

Dnipropetrovs’k Donets’k

Hamburg

Kazan’

Kharkiv

Krakow

Milan

Munich

Nizhniy Novgorod

Odesa

Poznan

Rostov-na-Donu

Samara

Turin

Ufa

Wroclaw Volgograd

St Petersburg

Istanbul

Clermont-Ferrand

AMSTERDAM

ANDORRALA VELLA

BELGRADE

BERLIN

BERN

BRUSSELS

BUDAPEST CHISINAU

COPENHAGEN

DUBLIN

HELSINKI

LONDON

LUXEMBOURG

MADRID

MINSK

MOSCOW

OSLO

PARIS PRAGUE

REYKJAVÍK

ROME

RIGA

SARAJEVO

SKOPJE

SOFIA

STOCKHOLM TALLINN

TIRANA

PODGORICA

VIENNA

VILNIUS

WARSAW

ZAGREB

KIEV

BUCHAREST

BRATISLAVA

ATHENS

LJUBLJANA

VALLETTA

PRISTINA

THE HAGUE

Channel

Islands

(to UK)

Isle

of Man

(to UK)

Faeroe Islands

(to Denmark)

Svalbard

(to Norway)

RUSSIAN

FEDERATION

FINLAND

UNITED

KINGDOM

IRELAND

AIN

FRANCE

ANDORRA

NETHERLANDS

GERMANY

DENMARK

POLAND

CZECH

REPUBLIC

SLOVAKIA

HUNGARY

CROATIA BOSNIA

& HERZEGOVINA

MONTENEGRO

SERBIA

ALBANIA

MACEDONIA

BULGARIA

GREECE

MALTA

ROMANIA

UKRAINE

BELARUS

LITHUANIA

ESTONIA

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KOSOVO(disputed)

SLOVE

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LATVIA

MOLDOVA

LUXEMBOURG

Shetland

Islands

Outer

Hebrides

Corsica

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Ibiza

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Gotland

Sicily

Crete

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Kara

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A F R

I C A ASIA

CONTINENTS OF

THE WOLRD

The Mediterranean Sea

Europe is divided from Africa

by the Mediterranean, a sea

that is almost completely

surrounded by land. The

only way in and out to the

Atlantic Ocean is through

the Strait of Gibraltar, which

is just 9 miles (14 km) wide.

FAMOUS PLACES

O

Surtsey, a small island off Iceland,

was formed by the eruption of an

underwater volcano. It rose above

sea level in 1963–68, making it one

of the world’s youngest islands.

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The Low Countries—Belgium and

the Netherlands—are so low that

some of the land actually lies below

sea level and has to be protected by

huge dikes.

The northeastern part of Europe,

known as Scandinavia, includes

the countries of Norway, Sweden,

Denmark, and Finland.

Mount Etna, on the island

of Sicily, is the largest

active volcano in Europe.

Etna erupts almost

continuously, making it

one of the world’s most

active volcanoes.

Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, is

the only city to span two continents.

Part is in Europe, and part in Asia.

The island of Iceland is extremely

volcanically active. It is home to

several volcanoes and many geysers.