Europe
is one of the traditional seven political continents, and a peninsular
sub-continent of the geographic continent Eurasia. Europe is bounded to
the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the
south by the Mediterranean Sea, and to the southeast by the Caucasus
Mountains, the Black Sea and the waterways connecting the Black Sea to
the Mediterranean. To the east, Europe is generally divided from Asia by
the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, and by the
Caspian Sea.