Europe

Europe's well preserved cultural heritage, open borders and efficient infrastructure make visiting a breeze, and you'll rarely have to travel more than a few hours before you can immerse yourself in a new culture.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Central Europe and Britain and Ireland.

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is one of Europe's most beautiful regions.

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Great Britain, Ireland and the rest of the British…

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was once the core of the mighty Roman Empire, and the cradle of the Renaissance.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Balkans and Nordic countries.

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The Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe is located between the Adriatic Sea and the Black Sea.

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The make up the northernmost part of western Europe, extending into the Arctic.

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The term can be defined in several…

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The Iberian Peninsula is the westernmost section…

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is a country with which almost every traveller has a relationship.

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is an economic union comprising three…

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, the eastern half of the…

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The are three countries of north-eastern…

Europe

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Latitude of center
51.58° or 51° 34′ 48″ north
Longitude of center
21.7° or 21° 42′ east
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25871341
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­continent
Wiki­data ID
Q46

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Europe” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Европа”
  • Achinese: “Ierupa”
  • Achinese: “Iërupa”
  • Adyghe: “Еуропэ”
  • Afrikaans: “Europa”
  • Albanian: “bota e vjetër”
  • Albanian: “Europa”
  • Albanian: “Evropa”
  • Albanian: “Evropë”
  • Albanian: “kontinenti i vjetër”
  • Albanian: “toka e vjetër”
  • Amharic: “አውሮፓ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Εὐρώπη”
  • Angika: “यूरोप”
  • Arabic: “أوروبا”
  • Arabic: “قارة أوروبا”
  • Aragonese: “Europa”
  • Armenian: “Եվրոպա”
  • Arpitan: “Eropa”
  • Assamese: “ইউৰোপ মহাদেশ”
  • Assamese: “ইউৰোপ”
  • Assamese: “ইউৰোপীয় মহাদেশ”
  • Assamese: “প্ৰাচীন মহাদেশ”
  • Asturian: “Europa”
  • Atayal: “Oco”
  • Atikamekw: “Pakwe Emitikociwi Askik”
  • Avaric: “Европа”
  • Awadhi: “यूरोप”
  • Aymara: “Iwrupa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Avropa qitəsi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Avropa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Köhnə qitə”
  • Balinese: “Éropa”
  • Bambara: “Eropa”
  • Banjar: “Irupa”
  • Bashkir: “Европа”
  • Basque: “Europa”
  • Basque: “Kontinente Zaharra”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Eropa”
  • Batak Toba: “Eropa”
  • Bavarian: “Eiropa”
  • Belarusian: “Еўрапейскі кантынент”
  • Belarusian: “Еўропа”
  • Belarusian: “Эўропа”
  • Bengali: “ইউরোপ মহাদেশ”
  • Bengali: “ইউরোপ”
  • Bengali: “ইউরোপীয় মহাদেশ”
  • Bengali: “প্রাচীন মহাদেশ”
  • Betawi: “Èropa”
  • Bhojpuri: “यूरोप”
  • Bislama: “Yurop”
  • Bosnian: “Evropa”
  • Brahui: “Yúrap”
  • Breton: “Europa”
  • Buginese: “banuwa éropa”
  • Buginese: “éropa”
  • Buginese: “ᨅᨊᨘᨓ ᨕᨙᨑᨚᨄ”
  • Buginese: “ᨕᨙᨑᨚᨄ”
  • Bulgarian: “Европа”
  • Burmese: “ဥရောပ”
  • Catalan: “continent europeu”
  • Catalan: “Europa”
  • Cebuano: “Ewropa”
  • Cebuano: “Uropa”
  • Central Bikol: “Europa”
  • Central Kanuri: “Europe”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەورووپا”
  • Central Kurdish: “کیشوەری ئەورووپا”
  • Chamorro: “Europa”
  • Chavacano: “Europa”
  • Chechen: “Европа”
  • Cherokee: “ᏳᎳᏛ”
  • Cheyenne: “Hóxovê-hooma”
  • Chinese: “Ōuzhōu”
  • Chinese: “日落之地”
  • Chinese: “欧洲/歐洲”
  • Chinese: “欧洲”
  • Chinese: “欧罗巴”
  • Chinese: “歐洲”
  • Chinese: “歐羅巴”
  • Chinese: “西日洲”
  • Choctaw: “Yʋlop”
  • Church Slavic: “Єѵрѡпа”
  • Chuvash: “Европа”
  • Cornish: “Europa”
  • Corsican: “Europa”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Avropa”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Awrupa”
  • Croatian: “Europa”
  • Croatian: “Evropa”
  • Czech: “Evropa”
  • Dagbani: “Tuure”
  • Danish: “Europa”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ewropa”
  • Dinka: “Yurop”
  • Dotyali: “युरोप”
  • Dutch: “Europa”
  • Dutch: “Europees continent”
  • Dutch: “oude continent”
  • Eastern Mari: “Европа”
  • Eastern Mari: “Европо”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوروبا”
  • Emilian: “Európa”
  • Erzya: “Европа”
  • Erzya: “Европань Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Eŭropo”
  • Estonian: “Euroopa”
  • Estonian: “kontinent”
  • Ewe: “Europa”
  • Extremaduran: “Uropa”
  • Faroese: “Evropa”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Europe”
  • Fijian: “Iurope”
  • Fijian: “Vavalagi”
  • Finnish: “Eurooppa”
  • Fon: “Elɔpu”
  • Fon: “Europe”
  • French: “continent européen”
  • French: “Europe”
  • French: “Vieux Continent”
  • Friulian: “Europe”
  • Fulah: “Yuroopu”
  • Gagauz: “Evropa”
  • Galician: “Europa”
  • Gan Chinese: “歐洲”
  • Ganda: “Bulaaya”
  • Georgian: “ევროპა”
  • German: “Alter Kontinent”
  • German: “Die alte Welt”
  • German: “Europa”
  • German: “Europäischer Kontinent”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Europe”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “European continent”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “European Continent”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “European Peninsula”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Old Continent”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “The Old Continent”
  • Gilaki: “اۊرۊپا”
  • Gilaki: “سوز ٚ قاره”
  • Gilaki: “کؤنه قاره”
  • Goan Konkani: “युरोप”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌹𐍅𐍂𐍉𐍀𐌰”
  • Greek: “Γηραιά ήπειρος”
  • Greek: “Γηραιά”
  • Greek: “Ευρώπη (ήπειρος)”
  • Greek: “Ευρώπη”
  • Guarani: “Europa”
  • Guarani: “Európa”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Léròp”
  • Gujarati: “યુરોપ”
  • Haitian: “Ewòp”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Êu-chû”
  • Hausa: “Turai”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻEulopa”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻEuropa”
  • Hebrew: “אירופה”
  • Hiligaynon: “Ewropa”
  • Hindi: “यूरोप”
  • Hungarian: “Európa”
  • Iban: “Eropah”
  • Icelandic: “Evrópa”
  • Ido: “Europa”
  • Igbo: “Europe”
  • Igbo: “Obodo Békè”
  • Iloko: “Europa”
  • Inari Sami: “Euroop”
  • Indonesian: “benua Eropa”
  • Indonesian: “Benua Lama”
  • Indonesian: “Eropa”
  • Ingush: “Аьроп”
  • Ingush: “Европа”
  • Interlingua: “Europa”
  • Interlingue: “Europa”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐃᐆᕌᑉ”
  • Irish: “an Eoraip”
  • Irish: “An Eoraip”
  • Irish: “Eoraip”
  • Italian: “Europa”
  • Italian: “Vecchio continente”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Yuropiyan kantinent”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Yuurop”
  • Japanese: “Yōroppa”
  • Japanese: “ヨーロッパ”
  • Japanese: “ヨーロッパ州”
  • Japanese: “欧”
  • Japanese: “欧州”
  • Japanese: “欧羅巴”
  • Javanese: “Éropa”
  • Javanese: “Eropah”
  • Javanese: “Éropah”
  • Jèrriais: “Ûrope”
  • Jju: “Yurop”
  • Kabardian: “Еуропэ”
  • Kabiyè: “Eerɔpʋ tɛtʋ wandamm”
  • Kabyle: “Turuft”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Eropah”
  • Kalaallisut: “Europa”
  • Kalmyk: “Европ”
  • Kannada: “ಯುರೋಪ್”
  • Kannada: “ಹಳೆಯ ಖಂಡ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Evropa”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Европа”
  • Karekare: “Turài”
  • Kashmiri: “یوٗرَپ”
  • Kashubian: “Eùropa”
  • Kazakh: “Еуропа”
  • Khmer: “ទ្វីបអឺរ៉ុប”
  • Khmer: “អឺរ៉ុប”
  • Kildin Sami: “Европа”
  • Kinaray-A: “Ewropa”
  • Kinaray-A: “Iwropa”
  • Kinaray-A: “Yoropa”
  • Kinaray-A: “Yuropa”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Burayi”
  • Kirghiz: “Европа”
  • Kölsch: “Europa”
  • Komering: “Eropa”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Европа”
  • Komi: “Европа”
  • Kongo: “Mputu”
  • Korean: “구라파”
  • Korean: “구주”
  • Korean: “유럽”
  • Kotava: “Europa”
  • Kurdish: “Ewropa”
  • Ladin: “Europa”
  • Ladino: “Evropa”
  • Lak: “Европа”
  • Lao: “ທະວີບເອີຣົບ”
  • Latgalian: “Europa”
  • Latin: “Europa”
  • Latvian: “Eiropa”
  • Lezghian: “Европа”
  • Ligurian: “Euròpa”
  • Limburgan: “Europa”
  • Lingala: “Erópa”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Europa”
  • Literary Chinese: “歐洲”
  • Literary Chinese: “歐羅巴”
  • Literary Chinese: “歐羅巴洲”
  • Lithuanian: “Europa”
  • Lithuanian: “Europos žemynas”
  • Livvi: “Jevrouppu”
  • Lojban: “rontu’a”
  • Lombard: “Europa”
  • Low German: “Europa”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Europa”
  • Lule Sami: “Europa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Europa”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Europa”
  • Macedonian: “Европа”
  • Madurese: “Èropa”
  • Magahi: “यूरोप”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Öürobô”
  • Maithili: “युरोप”
  • Maithili: “यूरोप”
  • Malagasy: “Eoropa”
  • Malagasy: “Eorôpa”
  • Malay: “Eropah”
  • Malay: “ايروڤه”
  • Malayalam: “യൂറോപ്പ്”
  • Maltese: “Ewropa”
  • Manipuri: “ꯏꯎꯔꯣꯞ”
  • Manx: “Europey”
  • Manx: “Oarpey”
  • Manx: “yn Europey”
  • Manx: “yn Oarpey”
  • Manx: “Yn Oarpey”
  • Maori: “Iuropi”
  • Maori: “Ōropi”
  • Maori: “Ūrapi”
  • Maori: “Ūropi”
  • Marathi: “युरोप”
  • Mazanderani: “اوروپا قاره”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ĕu-ciŭ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Au-chiu tāi-lio̍k”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Au-chiu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Au-lô-pa-chiu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Au-lô-pa”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Europa”
  • Minangkabau: “Eropa”
  • Mingrelian: “ევროპა”
  • Mirandese: “Ouropa”
  • Mon: “ဥရောပ”
  • Mongolian: “Европ”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ؤروپا”
  • N'Ko: “ߋߙߐߔߎ߬”
  • Nauru: “Iurop”
  • Navajo: “Tó Wónaanídi Bilagáana Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Europa”
  • Neapolitan: “Europe”
  • Nepali: “युरोप”
  • Newari: “युरोप”
  • Nias: “Eropa”
  • Northern Frisian: “Euroopa”
  • Northern Luri: “ئوروٙپا”
  • Northern Sami: “Eurohpá”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Europa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “det europeiske kontinentet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Europa”
  • Norwegian: “Europa”
  • Novial: “Europa”
  • Nyanja: “Europe”
  • Obolo: “Yurop”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Euròpa”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܘܪܘܦܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Europe”
  • Oriya: “ଇଉରୋପ”
  • Oriya: “ୟୁରୋପ”
  • Oromo: “Yuurooppi”
  • Ossetian: “Европæ”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဥရောပတွိုက်”
  • Paiwan: “iyurupu”
  • Paiwan: “歐洲”
  • Pampanga: “Europa”
  • Pangasinan: “Europe”
  • Panjabi: “ਯੂਰਪ”
  • Papiamento: “Oropa”
  • Pedi: “Europa”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Eiropaa”
  • Persian: “اروپا”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Europa”
  • Picard: “Urope”
  • Piemontese: “Euròpa”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Urup”
  • Polish: “Europa”
  • Polish: “Stary Kontynent”
  • Pontic: “Ευρώπην”
  • Portuguese: “continente europeu”
  • Portuguese: “Europa”
  • Pushto: “اروپا”
  • Quechua: “Iwrupa”
  • Romanian: “bătrânul continent”
  • Romanian: “continentul european”
  • Romanian: “Europa (continent)”
  • Romanian: “Europa”
  • Romanian: “Еуропа”
  • Romansh: “Europa”
  • Russia Buriat: “Европо”
  • Russian: “Европа (континент)”
  • Russian: “Европа (часть света)”
  • Russian: “Европа”
  • Russian: “Европейский континент”
  • Rusyn: “Европа”
  • Sakizaya: “O-cuo”
  • Samoan: “Europa”
  • Samogitian: “Euruopa”
  • Sango: “Aêropa”
  • Sanskrit: “यूरोपखण्डः”
  • Sanskrit: “यूरोप्”
  • Santali: “ᱤᱭᱩᱨᱳᱯ”
  • Santali: “ᱭᱩᱨᱳᱯ”
  • Saraiki: “یورپ”
  • Sardinian: “Europa”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Europa”
  • Scots: “Europe”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Roinn-Eòrpa”
  • Serbian: “Evropa”
  • Serbian: “Европа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Europa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Evropa”
  • Shan: “ယူးရူပ်ႉ”
  • Shona: “Europe”
  • Shona: “Yuropu”
  • Sicilian: “Europa”
  • Sicilian: “Oropa”
  • Silesian: “Ojropa”
  • Sindhi: “اتر-اولھ يوريشيا”
  • Sindhi: “يورپ کنڊ”
  • Sindhi: “يُورَپ”
  • Sinhala: “යුරෝපය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Europp”
  • Slovak: “Európa”
  • Slovenian: “Evropa”
  • Slovenian: “evropska celina”
  • Slovenian: “evropski kontinent”
  • Slovenian: “stara celina”
  • Somali: “Yurub”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوروپا”
  • Southern Sami: “Eurovpe”
  • Southern Sotho: “Uropa”
  • Spanish: “continente europeo”
  • Spanish: “Europa”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Ropa”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⵓⵕⵓⴱⵜ”
  • Sundanese: “Éropa”
  • Swahili: “Ulaya”
  • Swati: “IYurophu”
  • Swedish: “Europa”
  • Swiss German: “Europa”
  • Swiss German: “Europäische Kontinent”
  • Sylheti: “ꠁꠃꠞꠥꠙ”
  • Tachelhit: “Tuṛuft”
  • Tagalog: “Europa”
  • Tahitian: “’Europa”
  • Tai Nüa: “ᥕᥧᥰ ᥞᥨᥙᥳ”
  • Tajik: “Аврупо”
  • Talysh: “Avropə”
  • Tamil: “ஐரோப்பா”
  • Tatar: “Awrupa”
  • Tatar: “Аурупа”
  • Tatar: “Европа”
  • Tatar: “Яурупа”
  • Telugu: “ఐరోపా”
  • Tetum: “Europa”
  • Thai: “Europe”
  • Thai: “ทวีปยุโรป”
  • Thai: “ยุโรป”
  • Tibetan: “ཡོ་རོབ་གླིང་།”
  • Tigrinya: “ኤውሮጳ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Yurop”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻEulope”
  • Tsonga: “Yuropa”
  • Tulu: “ಪರಾತ್ ಖಂಡೊ”
  • Tulu: “ಯುರೋಪ್”
  • Tumbuka: “Europe”
  • Turkish: “Avrupa kıtası”
  • Turkish: “Avrupa”
  • Turkish: “Eski Kıta”
  • Turkmen: “Ýewropa”
  • Tuvinian: “Европа”
  • Twi: “Yurop”
  • Tyap: “Yurop”
  • Udmurt: “Европа”
  • Uighur: “Yawropa”
  • Uighur: “ياۋروپا”
  • Ukrainian: “Європа”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Europa”
  • Urdu: “یورپ”
  • Uzbek: “Yevropa”
  • Venetian: “Eoropa”
  • Venetian: “Europa”
  • Veps: “Evrop”
  • Vietnamese: “Âu châu”
  • Vietnamese: “Âu”
  • Vietnamese: “châu Âu”
  • Vietnamese: “Châu Âu”
  • Vlaams: “Europa”
  • Vlax Romani: “Europa”
  • Vlax Romani: “Evropa”
  • Volapük: “Yurop”
  • Võro: “Õuruupa”
  • Walloon: “Urope”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Europa”
  • Welsh: “Ewrop”
  • Western Armenian: “Եւրոպա”
  • Western Frisian: “Europa”
  • Western Frisian: “Jeropa”
  • Western Mari: “Европа”
  • Western Panjabi: “یورپ”
  • Wolof: “Tugal”
  • Wu Chinese: “欧”
  • Wu Chinese: “欧洲”
  • Wu Chinese: “欧罗巴”
  • Wu Chinese: “欧罗巴洲”
  • Xhosa: “Europe”
  • Xhosa: “IYurophu”
  • Yakut: “Дьобуруопа”
  • Yakut: “Европа”
  • Yiddish: “אייראפע”
  • Yoruba: “Europe”
  • Yue Chinese: “日落之地”
  • Yue Chinese: “歐”
  • Yue Chinese: “歐洲”
  • Yue Chinese: “歐羅巴”
  • Yue Chinese: “歐羅巴洲”
  • Yue Chinese: “西日洲”
  • Zeeuws: “Europa”
  • Zhuang: “Ouhcouh”
  • Zulu: “IYurobhu”
  • Zulu: “IYurophu”
  • “Eoropah”
  • “ma Elopa”

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