geographica

europe

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European UN Geoscheme Regions

The geographic border between Europe and Asia does not follow any state boundaries and now only follows a few bodies of water.

Turkey is generally considered a transcontinental country divided entirely by water, while Russia and Kazakhstan are only partly divided by waterways.

France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom are transcontinental in that their main land areas are in Europe while pockets of their territories are located on other continents separated from Europe by large bodies of water.

Spain, for example, has territories south of the Mediterranean Sea, namely Ceuta and Melilla which are parts of Africa, and share a border with Morocco.

According to the current convention, Georgia and Azerbaijan are transcontinental countries where waterways have been completely replaced by mountains as the divide between continents.