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14 paź 2020 · The boundary between Asia and Europe is often defined to follow the Aegean Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Turkish Strait, the Black Sea, the Greater Caucasus, and the Ural River and Mountains. However, controversies exist over the exact boundary.
23 cze 2022 · The boundary between Europe and Asia is simply a historical and cultural construct. Nowadays, the border between Europe and Asia is usually drawn to follow the Aegean Sea, the Sea of Marmara–Bosporus, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, and the Ural River and Mountains.
According to Turkey, country is entirely in Europe, but at the same time Istanbul is split into Asian and European halves. The countries in the Caucasus, Christian Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan are usually considered to be in Europe, separated from Iran only by political, not geographic, borders.
The concepts of Europe and Asia as distinct continents date back to antiquity, but their borders have historically been subject to change, for example to the ancient Greeks Asia originally included Africa but they classified Europe as separate land.
24 cze 2024 · There are five countries that lie in both Europe and Asia: Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan. These transcontinental countries have territory in both continents, showcasing the diverse characteristics of both European and Asian cultures.
1 dzień temu · Although the physical combination of Europe and Asia constitutes the geologic Eurasia, the land boundary between those two continents is not universally agreed upon. For geographers the term continent is more than just a physical definition: it exists in the realm of culture.
18 lip 2023 · Eurasia is a massive tectonic plate, so determining where exactly Europe ends and Asia begins is difficult. Europe is bordered by the Arctic Ocean in the North, the Atlantic Ocean and its seas to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea to the south. Europe’s eastern boundary is typically given as the Ural Mountains, which run ...
