Europe
Terrestrial continent located in north-western Eurasia
Also known as European continent · The Old Continent · European Continent · European Peninsula · Old Continent
- Area
- 10.2M km²
- Population
- 744M(2025)
1
Sources- 1.“7 Continents of the World”worldometers.info/geography/7-continents/Retrieved 2025-07-19
- , 745M(2024)
- , 695M(2019)
- +4 more
- 744M(2025)
- Located in/on physical feature
Overview
Over time
Dated values recorded in Wikidata, each with its own source
All data
354 statements · 15% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Coordinates of southernmost point
- 34.8009°N, 24.1222°E
- Demonym
- Europeaan
- European
- Europäer applies to part: male
1
- Europäerin applies to part: female
1
- europæer applies to part: inhabitant
- európai
- європеєць
- Europejczyk applies to part: male
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- Europejka applies to part: female
- Européen applies to part: male
- Européenne applies to part: female
- Europeo applies to part: male
- Europea applies to part: female
- Evropan applies to part: male
- Evropanka applies to part: female
- Europeu applies to part: male
- Europeia applies to part: female
- Avrupalı
- europeo applies to part: masculine singular
- europea applies to part: feminine singular
- europei applies to part: masculine plural
- europee applies to part: feminine plural
- Ευρωπαίος applies to part: masculine plural
- Ευρωπαία applies to part: feminine plural
- eŭropano
- eurooplane
- европеец applies to part: masculine singular
- европейка applies to part: feminine singular
- Evropejec
- Evropejka
- europeo applies to part: masculine singular
- europea applies to part: feminine singular
- Europeu applies to part: masculine singular
- Europea applies to part: feminine singular
- אירופאי applies to part: masculine singular
- אירופאית applies to part: feminine singular
- אירופאים applies to part: masculine plural
- אירופאיות applies to part: feminine plural
- Eorpach
1
- ؤروپي applies to part: masculine singular
- ؤروپية applies to part: feminine singular
- ؤروپيين applies to part: masculine plural
- ؤروپيات applies to part: feminine plural
- Europäer applies to part: masculine singular
1
- Europäerin applies to part: feminine singular
1
- أُورُبِّيٌّ grammatical gender: masculine
- أُورُبِّيَّةٌ grammatical gender: feminine
- Avropalı
- еўрапеец applies to part: masculine singular
- еўрапейка applies to part: feminine singular
- Coordinates of northernmost point
- 81.8545°N, 59.2435°E located in/on physical feature: Cape Fligely
- Coordinates of easternmost point
- 76.7026°N, 69.0897°E located in/on physical feature: Cape Flissingsky
- Number of out-of-school children
- 3,177,740(2015)
- 3,641,338(2014)
- 3,829,169(2013)
- 4,554,841(2012)
- 4,812,729(2011)
- 4,979,092(2010)
- 5,538,402(2009)
- 6,132,854(2008)
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- 6,872,639(2007)
- 7,080,924(2006)
- 7,289,496(2005)
- 6,923,521(2004)
- 6,258,074(2003)
- 7,127,515(2002)
- 8,386,738(2001)
- 9,231,362(2000)
- 9,518,269(1999)
- Highest point
- Mount Elbrus elevation: 5,642 m
- Members / parts
- Northern Europe
2
Sources- 1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2021-09-16
- 2.Stated in UN M49“UNSD — Methodology”unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/Retrieved 2024-08-19
- Northeastern Europe
1
- Southern Europe
1
- Southeastern Europe
1
- Eastern Europe
1
- Western Europe
1
- Central Europe
1
- South-West Europe
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- Northern Europe
- Coordinates of westernmost point
- 38.6025°N, 28.8348°W
- Maximum temperature record
- 48°C(July 10, 1977) location: Athens
- Discovered
- 200th millennium BCE relative to: Homo sapiens
- 1200th millennium BCE relative to: Homo erectus
- Lowest point
- Caspian Sea elevation: -28 m
- Name
- Europa
- Uropa language: New Mexican Spanish
- Short name
- 欧 name in kana: おう · revised hepburn romanization: Ō
- 歐 hanyu pinyin transliteration: Ōu
- 欧 hanyu pinyin transliteration: Ōu
On other databases
187 identifiers linking Europe across the web's reference databases
- AIATSIS Place Thesaurus ID4381
- Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID2974
- Apple Maps "auid" identifier17442885204036454788
- ArchINFORM location ID3063
- Archive of Our Own tagEurope
- Armeniapedia ID4284
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Onlineeuropa-1
- ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID294910700
- Australian Educational Vocabulary IDscot/4380
- Ávvir topic IDeurohpa
- BabelNet ID00031896n
- Baidu Tieba name欧洲
- Basisklassifikation74.19
- BBC News topic IDc05pgvdm849t
- BBC Things ID0b0bfd5a-81b8-43fa-91fc-57f1fcd24487
- BHCL UUIDb8f9b6df-81e8-45cf-90b2-7a182f636d1c
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID11931301w
- Biblissima authority IDQ27135
- Britannica Kids kids level article ID353110
- Britannica Kids scholars level article ID106055
- Britannica Kids students level article ID274228
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDeuropa-20
- Catholic Encyclopedia ID05607b
- Cathopedia article IDEuropa
- Climate Policy Radar TopicsQ2035
- CNA topic IDeurope
- Colon ClassificationSG--5
- Comic Vine ID4020-56099
- CREDDO author ID20
- Cyprus Bibliography ID2296
- Data Commons IDeurope
- Deaf Movie Database country IDeurope
- DeCS ID5158
- Dewey Decimal Classification2--4
- Edition humboldt digital IDH0005696
- Eesti entsüklopeedia IDeuroopa
- El Moudjahid topic IDeurope
- El Watan topic IDeurope
- Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID123882
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Europe
- Encyclopedia of China (Second Edition) ID223610
- Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID17368
- Euronews topic IDeurope
- Europalexikon ID176848
- EuroVoc ID909
- FactGrid item IDQ176130
- Famous Birthdays IDregion/europe
- Fandom article IDevangelion:Europe
- FAST ID1245064
- Foursquare City Guide venue ID4ef4adb00aaf6577fe15c31d
- France 24 topic ID (Arabic)أوروبا
- France 24 topic ID (French)europe
- Freebase ID/m/02j9z
- GACS ID2644
- GamesIndustry.biz tag IDtopics/europe
- GCMD keyword ID0b3765f7-20f7-4425-bd50-d1bb99d09d86
- GeoNames ID6255148
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID1000003
- Giant Bomb ID (former scheme)3035-289
- Giant Bomb Wiki IDLocations/Europe
- GND ID4015701-5
- Golden ID (archived)Europe-4PNA
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDeuropa-0
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0025541
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDEuropa
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)4025468
- Harper's tageurope
- HBL topic IDEuropa
- HDS ID007147
- House Divided ID9069
- IAB code1226
- ICPSR Geographic Names Thesaurus ID30430
- IDAI.gazetteer ID2044223
- IMDb keywordeurope
- INaturalist place ID97391
- Interlingual Index IDi85374
- IPTC NewsCodeworldregion/r150
- Itch.io tag IDtag-europe
- ITV News topic IDeurope
- J-GLOBAL ID200906040964955326
- J9U entity ID987007558086305171
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID5909
- Joconde discovery IDT115-305
- Joconde location IDT84-598
- KBpedia IDContinentOfEurope
- Klexikon article IDEuropa
- KSW place ID77798
- KulturNav-IDf1b0d7a0-fea6-4ee3-a72c-cdb7dbcb1901
- Larousse IDautre-region/wd/118736
- LC and MARC vocabularies IDgeographicAreas/e