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[14] 44 countries have their capital city located within Europe, and (as of 2022) 27 of those countries are member states of the European Union, which means that they are highly integrated with one another and share their sovereignty through EU institutions. Each entry in the list below has a map of its location in Europe.
1.2 Countries of Europe. 1.3 Cities in Europe. 1.4 Villages in Europe. 1.5 Geographic features of Europe. 2 History of Europe. Toggle History of Europe subsection.
[5] [6] [7] As of 2015, all European Union member states are representative democracies; however, they do not all have the same political system, with most of the differences arising from different historical backgrounds. Many of the states in the neighbourhood of the European Union are not considered to be "free" by the same criteria. [8]
Most states, especially the smaller ones, are unitary states; meaning all major political power is concentrated at the national level. 9 states allocate power to more local levels of government. Austria, Belgium and Germany are full federations, meaning their regions have constitutional autonomies.
Lists of member states of the European Union provide different types of information about each of the states in the European Union. They include lists about politics, demographics and economics. They include lists about politics, demographics and economics.
Below is a list of European countries and dependencies by area in Europe. [1] As a continent, Europe's total geographical area is about 10 million square kilometres. [2] Transcontinental countries are ranked according to the size of their European part only, excluding Greece due to the not clearly defined boundaries of its islands between ...
0.2%: 68,513,000: 1 Sep 2024 [8] [c] 6 T ... List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Europe; List of urban areas of the European Union; Notes
The United States and Western Europe established the NATO alliance and, later, the Soviet Union and Central Europe established the Warsaw Pact. [220] Particular hot spots after the Second World War were Berlin and Trieste , whereby the Free Territory of Trieste , founded in 1947 with the UN, was dissolved in 1954 and 1975, respectively.