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Nordic Council in session at the Parliament of Norway in 2007. Nordic cooperation is based on the Helsinki Treaty. [80] Politically, Nordic countries do not form a separate entity, but they cooperate in the Nordic Council and the Nordic Council of Ministers. The council was established after World War II and its first concrete result was the ...
Switzerland, [d] officially the Swiss Confederation, [e] is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. [f] [13] It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.
Switzerland's natural landscape is marked by its numerous lakes and mountains. It is surrounded by five countries: Austria and Liechtenstein to the east, France to the west, Italy to the south and Germany to the north. Switzerland has a maximum north–south length of 220 kilometres (140 mi) and an east–west length of about 350 kilometres ...
Nordic countries; Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Greenland, and Iceland [citation needed] Scandinavia: Sweden, Norway, Denmark [citation needed] Fennoscandia: Finland, Sweden, Norway and Karelia; a geological region defined by the Fennoscandian shield [citation needed] Alpine countries; States that occupy the Alps:
It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland is geographically divided among the Swiss Plateau, the Alps and the Jura; the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, whereas most of the country's nearly 9 million people are concentrated on the plateau ...
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.
Latitude Locations 90° N North Pole: 75° N: Arctic Ocean; Russia; northern Canada; Greenland: 60° N: Oslo, Norway; Helsinki, Finland; Stockholm, Sweden; major parts of Nordic countries in EU; St. Petersburg, Russia; southern Alaska United States; southern border of the Yukon and the Northwest territories in Canada; Shetland, UK (Scotland)
Zambezi River east of Jeki: 15°37′S Saint Helena (United Kingdom) Point Jamestown 15°46′S Namibia: Kunene River north of Otjivakuanda: 16°56′S Chile: Near Visviri, Arica y Parinacota Region: 17°19′S Botswana: Kasane: 17°46′S Paraguay: San Antonio, border with Bolivia: 19°17′S New Caledonia Point Noevo 20°32′S Réunion