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If you take a traditional definition of Continental Europe, including islands like Britain and Ireland, and going all the way into Russia as far as the Ural and
by Reason077 4y ago
If you take a traditional definition of Continental Europe, including islands like Britain and Ireland, and going all the way into Russia as far as the Ural and Caucasus mountains, then Europe is slightly larger than the USA.
But if you're talking about just the European Union, then the EU is much smaller than the USA. Less than half the land area.
- guerrilla 4y ago> Continental Europe, including islands like Britain and Ireland, Continental Europe doesn't include Britain and Ireland.. That's kind of the point of the phrase.
- bonzini 4y agoYeah he meant the European continent (the western half of Eurasia) rather than Continental Europe.
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