world tour - europe

       EurOpe એઊરોપે 
यूरोप ኤኡሮጵኤ еуропе اوروبي ইউরোপ   युरोपे     አኡሮጵኤ         Europe 

Europe (ⁱ/ˈjʊərəp/ ewr-əp or /ˈjɜrəp/ yur-əp^[1]) is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and CaucasusMountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting the Black and Aegean Seas.^[2] Europe is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, theAtlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea .                 

Erope is the world's second-smallest continent by surface area, covering about 10,180,000 square kilometres (3,930,000 sq mi) or 2% of the Earth's surface and about 6.8% of its land area. Of Europe's approximately 50 states, Russia is by far the largest by both area and population, taking up 40% of the continent (although the country has territory in both Europe and Asia), while Vatican City is the smallest. Europe is the third-most populous continent after Asia and Africa, with a population of 733 million or about 11% of the world's population.^[3] 

  Between the 16th and 20th centuries, European nations  controlled at various times the Americas, most of Africa, Oceania, and large portions of Asia. In 1900, Europe's share of the world's population was 25%.^[5] Both World Warswere largely focused upon Europe, greatly contributing to a decline in Western European dominance in world affairs by the mid-20th century as the United States andSoviet Union took prominence.^[6] During the Cold War, Europe was divided along theIron Curtain between NATO in the west and the Warsaw Pact in the east. European integration led to the formation of the Council of Europe and the European Union in Western Europe, both of which have been expanding eastward since the revolutions of 1989 and the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.