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Satellite image of Europe by night 1916 physical map of Europe Topography of Europe. Some geographical texts refer to a Eurasian continent given that Europe is not surrounded by sea and its southeastern border has always been variously defined for centuries. In terms of shape, Europe is a collection of connected peninsulas and nearby
All maps by Alphathon and based upon Blank map of Europe.svg unless otherwise stated. Deutsch: Diese Karte ist Teil einer Serie historischer politischer Europakarten. Solange nicht anders angegeben, wurden alle Karten durch Alphathon auf Basis von Blank map of Europe.svg erstellt, sofern nicht anders angegeben.
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east. Europe shares the landmass of Eurasia with Asia, and of Afro-Eurasia with both Africa and Asia.
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.
English: Location map Northern and Central Europe; Political with state boundaries; Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection Projection: LAEA Europe, EPSG:3035; Longitude of projection center: 10° E; Latitude of projection center: 52° N
Media in category "Maps of Europe" The following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total. Gibraltar map-en-edit2.svg 1,000 × 1,558; 1.46 MB.
The next Europe-focused map was published by cartographer Johannes Putsch from Innsbruck in 1537, at the beginning of the Early Modern Age. [ 4 ] The Putsch-map was the first to depict Europe as an Europa regina , [ 5 ] [ 4 ] [ 6 ] with the European regions forming a female human shape with crown , sceptre and globus cruciger . [ 4 ]
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