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continental Europe
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continent of Europe, excluding European islands
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mainland
- Part of
- Europe
- Country
- Austria
- Time zone
- Eastern European Time
- Location
- Europe
- Image
- Continental Europe map.svg
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- Commons category
- Continental Europe
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Encyclopedic overview
The extent of continental Europe Continental Europe or mainland Europe is the contiguous mainland of Europe, excluding its surrounding islands. It can also be referred to ambiguously as the European continent, – which can conversely mean the whole of Europe – and, by some, simply as the Continent. When Eurasia is regarded as a single continent, Europe is treated both as a continent and subcontinent.
Conceptual history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “continental Europe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.