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There were many talk pages with users putting this page forward as an idea. As each of the other continents has it's own 'geography of' page, I thought I'd start one for Europe, borrowing from the exisitng geography section in the main Europe article, but which can be added to over time. Grunners 16:34, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Cyprus

The vast majority (if not all) of the major articles in Wikipedia confirm that Cyprus is a geographically Asian island nation which is broadly culturally European.

Therefore, all geographical references to Cyprus being in Europe out to be removed. To assert (as it seems happens in some quarters) that Cyprus is both in Europe and Asia in articles discussing physical geography is absurd. There may be arguments (if so, please make them on the relevant pages for Asia and Europe) for saying that Cyprus is in Europe, but not both ! --jrleighton 07:51, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

No doubt Cyprus is geophysically Asian, whereas geopolitically European. Which of the two is geographical? noychoH 12:41, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Since this article is about physical geography, I'd say that Asia is the correct location for Cyprus. If you're going to include geopolitical considerations, then a good case could be made for also including Turkey and Russia in their entirety. Klausness (talk) 11:14, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Largest city in Italy

Milan largest city in Italy?? Rome is far larger, it's one of the biggest comune in Europe and the biggest in Italy, as Rome's article report.

See here —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bumbulski (talk • contribs) 16:51, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of countries by the number of other countries they border

This list seems strange. Spain, for example, is said to border four countries. When I look at a map, I can only see three (Portugal, France, Andorra). Is bordering Gibraltar counted in, as well? If it is, why is the UK bordering only ONE country (presumably Ireland).--85.49.225.28 18:54, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree, cos Gibraltar isn't a country, although it is territory, so, as Poland borders with Russia, we have to count Gibraltar as such. Though, what about countries that are along water? I.E. Morocco is just 13km away of Spain, with water on the way. If it was a lake it would be counted.--Nauki 21:04, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Oh, my! I've just realised. There is Ceuta and Melilla that border with Morocco anyway. So, yes, definitely, 5 countries! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by FeMeMe (talk • contribs) 21:06, 10 May 2007 (UTC).

The UK technically borders France too, thanks to the Channel Tunnel 81.109.115.135 (talk) 19:38, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Capital names

Andorra's capital city is Andorra la Vella, does that count as sharing the same name?--Nauki 20:57, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] British Isles

I noticed that someone has come along and changed all the instances of the words "British Isles" to "UK and Ireland" without consensus or even discussion of the subject. Please bear in mind that this is a contentious issue that has its own page (British Isles naming dispute), and a specific talk page (Talk:British Isles/name debate) already. Please look at these pages before making wholesale changes to this article, as these are likely to be reverted if there is no discussion. --carelesshx talk 13:32, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Islands or archipelagoes?

Some of the mentioned islands are really archipelagoes with several islands, like Svalbard, where Spitsbergen is the largest island. Orcaborealis (talk) 19:04, 24 January 2008 (UTC).

True. The list desperately lacks consistency, even in the basic criteria for inclusion (if there even are any - since even Zealand was missing until today, I kind of doubt it). Sakkura (talk) 20:04, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Major islands, inclusion criteria

I think we need to set up some criteria for inclusion in the list of major islands. I went through the list of major islands and found those islands and archipelagoes that have a population below 100,000 and an area of less than 1,000 km2. I suggest those be eliminated from the list, unless someone can come up with a good reason to keep them. This is a very arbitrary limit, so feel free to suggest another limit, or other criteria that might be relevant.

Removing the above would bring the list down to 26 islands and archipelagoes. Removing double entries of archipelagoes and individual islands could further reduce it. There are also a number of islands not currently on the list that would merit inclusion under those criteria. Sakkura (talk) 14:45, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Well it's been a week, so I went ahead and removed those four. Sakkura (talk) 12:12, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lowlands: Netherlands

Shouldn't there be mentioned something about 40% of the netherlands lying under the sealevel? Wob-Wob (talk) 14:51, 8 March 2008 (UTC)