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1 day ago · Europe, second smallest of the world’s continents, composed of the westward-projecting peninsulas of Eurasia (the great landmass that it shares with Asia) and occupying nearly one-fifteenth of the world’s total land area.
During the Cold War, Western Europe was a geographic and socio-political concept. It meant the democratic European countries of the First World, which are also vaguely defined. It was and still is distinguished from Eastern Europe by differences of economics, politics, and religion.
Countries of Western Europe according to the United Nations Statistics Division, containing France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, LIechtenstein and Luxembourg.
