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Islands of the European Union around the Atlantic coast of NW Africa: Canary Islands, Spain: Central El Hierro; Fuerteventura 2; Lanzarote; San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife 1; Santa Cruz de La Palma 2; Madeira archipelago, Portugal; Ceuta, Melilla, and Plazas de soberanía, Spain. Pantelleria and the Pelagie Islands, Italy
Madeira (Portugal) - politically and culturally associated with Europe; Canary Islands (Spain) - politically and culturally associated with Europe; Faroe Islands (Denmark) Greenland (Denmark) - geographically a part of the continent of North America, politically and culturally associated with Europe.
Geographical map of Spain Map of Spain (Instituto Geográfico Nacional, 2000) Map of Spain and Portugal, Corrected and Augmented from the Map Published by D. Tomas Lopez, 1810. Spain is a country located in southwestern Europe occupying most (about 82 percent) of the Iberian Peninsula.
In fact, Spain is sometimes described as the most climatically diverse country in Europe [1] and has 13 different Köppen, climates. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The four most dominant climates in the country include: The hot-summer Mediterranean climate ( Csa ), the warm-summer Mediterranean climate ( Csb ), the semi-arid climate ( BSk ) and the oceanic ...
As for the land on the European continent, the mildest climate occurs in the northwest part of Iberian Peninsula (also Spain and Portugal), between Bilbao, A Coruña and Porto. In this the coastal strand, the average temperature varies from 10–14 °C (50–57 °F) during the day and about 5 °C (41 °F) at night in January to 22–26 °C (72 ...
Cyclone Lothar, stands as the most severe windstorm ever recorded during the 20th century in the European Union. Its path cut across France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany from December 25 to December 27, 1999. The cyclone brought tragedy, claiming 110 lives (including 88 in France alone) and causing more than €15 billion in damages ...
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
The Iberian Peninsula (IPA: / aɪ ˈ b ɪər i ə n / eye-BEER-ee-ən), [a] also known as Iberia, [b] is a peninsula in south-western Europe.Mostly separated from the rest of the European landmass by the Pyrenees, it includes the territories of Peninsular Spain [c] and Continental Portugal, comprising most of the region, as well as the tiny adjuncts of Andorra, Gibraltar, and, pursuant to the ...