All you should know about Europe!

Europe is the second smallest continent in the world and occupies one-fifteenth of the total land area of the westward-projecting peninsulas of Eurasia, a great landmass that it shares with Asia. On the north bordered by Arctic Ocean, On west by Atlantic Ocean, and in the south by the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, the Kuma-Manych Depression, and the Caspian Sea it is enriched with jaw-dropping locations to visit to and breath-taking sceneries. Europe has a vast advantage of exquisite geographic locations to which Travel Agency in Singapore like Fayyaz Travels provides affordable packages.



Some interesting facts about Europe:
  • ·    Just having a land area of forty lakh square miles, it is the second smallest continent in the world after Australia. 
  • Europe is very famous among travelers despite being so small and when it comes to population stats it is right behind Asia and Africa.
  • Despite being the smallest continent on the world it homes the world's largest country that is Russia. Russia is so big that it occupies almost 40% of the Europe's land area.
  • It was the main location in the ancient period for a lot of revolutions like the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution in the history that changed the course of the world and the way it looked at life.
  • Canada is only two percent smaller in land area than Europe.
  • A lot of people believe that Europe is derived from Europa, one of the many wives of the Zeus, the king of Gods in Greek mythology. It might have originated from the Greek word “eurus,” meaning wide or broad. It might have also derived from the ancient Syrian word for sunset, “ereb.” Hecataeus and Anaximander were the first historians to use the term "Europe" as a geographical term.
  • The boundary between Asia and Europe changed a lot during the course of history. Earlier it was placed somewhat near the Phasis (modern day Rioni) river by Hecataeus and Anaximander, whereas, it was placed near Tanais (modern day Don) river by Roman era historians like Ptolemy and Strabo.
  • In the vernacular of some Turkic languages, Europe is also called as Frangistan or “the land of the Franks.”European land is home to most of the greatest empires that were founded in the history of mankind, like Roman Empire (the cradle of modern civilization, according to some historians), and then later on, the British, Spanish, and Russian Empires.
  • Europe apart from having the largest country in the world also homes for the smallest. The Vatican City is the smallest in the world with a land area of only about 0.44 square kilometers.
After knowing so much about Europe only a lazy person wouldn't want to visit Europe. Avail the best Europe Tour Package from Singapore by competent traveling agencies. 

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