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Map of the countries included in a minimum definition of Northwestern Europe. Northwestern Europe, or Northwest Europe, is a loosely defined subregion of Europe, overlapping Northern and Western Europe. The term is used in geographic, [1] history, [2] and military contexts. [3]
In Quest of the North West Passage. Longmans, Green. Illustrated with black&white photos and reproductions and with maps (some fold to open out). Rundall, Thomas, ed. (1849). Narratives of voyages towards the north-west in search of a passage to Cathay and India, 1496 to 1631. Hakluyt Society. ISBN 978-0665422331. Scholefield, E.O.S. (1914).
A map of Europe as it appeared in 1815 after the Congress of Vienna. This article gives a detailed listing of all the countries, including puppet states, that have existed in Europe since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to the present day. Each country has information separated into columns: name of the distinct country, its lifespan, the ...
Guillaume Le Testu's 1556 Cosmographie Universel, 4ème projection, where the northward extending promontory of the Terre australe is called Grande Jave.. Because many of the inscriptions on the Dieppe maps are written in French, Portuguese or Gallicised Portuguese, it has often been assumed that the Dieppe school of mapmakers were working from Portuguese sources that no longer exist.
In classical antiquity, Europe was assumed to cover the quarter of the globe north of the Mediterranean, an arrangement that was adhered to in medieval T and O maps. Ptolemy's world map of the 2nd century already had a reasonably precise description of southern and western Europe, but was unaware of particulars of northern and eastern Europe.
OECD Europe countries; European countries that are a part of the OECD: ... describing the concentration of the wealth/economic productivity of Europe in a banana ...
North West Europe may refer to: Northwestern Europe, a loosely defined subregion of Europe, overlapping Northern and Western Europe; North-West Europe 1940, World War II campaign also known as the Battle of France; North West Europe campaign, the British and Commonwealth armed forces campaign in North West Europe during World War II
The following is an alphabetical list of subregions in the United Nations geoscheme for Europe, created by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). [1] The scheme subdivides the continent into Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, and Western Europe. The UNSD notes that "the assignment of countries or areas to specific ...