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>it's hard to define Europe if you don't use either Schengen or EU The mass of land resting North of the Mediterranean sea and West of the Ural mountains from
by IIAOPSW 7y ago
>it's hard to define Europe if you don't use either Schengen or EU
The mass of land resting North of the Mediterranean sea and West of the Ural mountains from which there is no land route to America.
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- tom_mellior 7y agoIreland and the UK are not part of that "mass of land" :-)
- chinesempire 7y agoTrue, but technically both are - North of the Mediterranean sea - West of the Ural mountains - no land route to America
- mcv 7y agoIt might include lots of Canadian islands, though. Maybe specify that it needs to be on or east of the mid-Atlantic ridge as well.
- chinesempire 7y agoIf we talk about "mass of land" - and wanna split hairs :) - it does not include the ocean I guess. Remember that UK is very close to continental Europe Strait of Dover is just 33 km wide. One could almost swim from one side to the other. And there's a tunnel connecting the two, you can already go by train from France to UK. Ireland and UK are even closer than that (about 20kms) And they are all the same "mass of land" as in tectonic plate. Iceland for example cannot entirely be considered Europe, the Eurasian plate cut it exactly in a half.
- majewsky 7y agoAnything east of the Ural mountains is also west of the Ural mountains if you travel far enough. :)
- chinesempire 7y agothat's why we have invented the concept of "greater distance" :)
- dx034 7y agoSo you'd include parts of Russia and Turkey but leave out others? That's gonna be hard to define at the border.