1. Based on a slide show by Ms. Susan M. Pojer
The Geography
& Peoples
of Europe
Based on a slide show by Ms. Susan M. Pojer

2. Did You Know?
Europe is the second smallest continent with roughly 4 million square miles of land.
Europe is designated as a continent for political reasons. There is no geographic basis for the claim.
Europe is home to more than 700 million people, but birth rates are stagnant.
Most scholars believe Europe was named after Europa, a Phoenician Princess in Greek mythology.

3. Europe produces just over 18 percent of all the oil in the world.
The smallest country in Europe is the Vatican, which is considered a separate country from Italy even though it is in the middle of Rome.
The largest city in Europe is Paris with a population of just under 10 million.
Europe produces just over 18 percent of all the oil in the world.

4. Did you also know?
The Life expectancy at birth is 68.3 years for males, 77 years Females.
In the Pyrenees region of Andorra, life expectancy is 86 yrs M, 95yrs F. In Russia (2005) it was 62yrs M, 74 yrs F, and dropping.
 80 to 90 percent of Europe was once covered in forest, but this has been reduced to 3 percent in Western Europe.
Europe has been racked with war throughout its history to the point where more than 70 former countries have been conquered and no longer appear on maps.

5. The Dark Ages in Europe lasted from 476 to 1,000 A. D
The Dark Ages in Europe lasted from 476 to 1,000 A.D. or twice as long as the United States has been a country.
Adolf Hitler was not German. He was Austrian, born in the small town of Braunau am Inn.
It is estimated that 62 million people died in World War II, 2.5 percent of the world’s population at that time.
The 10 most generous countries in the world when it comes to charitable giving are all located in Europe.

6. Europe’s Latitude v. US

7. Former Soviet Region Compared in Latitude & Area with the United States

8. Satellite View of Europe
Note the length of Europe’s coastline

9. R E G I O N S

10. Topography

11. Europe: A Peninsula of Peninsulas?OR
A Peninsula of Asia?

12. Europe: An Asian Peninsula?

13. Scandinavian Peninsula
Northern Peninsulas
Scandinavian Peninsula
Jutland Peninsula

14. Southern Peninsulas Crimean Peninsula Iberian Peninsula
Italian Peninsula
Balkan Peninsula
AnatoleanPeninsula

15. P e n i n s u l a s Scandinavian Pen. Jutland Pen. Crimean Pen.
Italian Pen.
Balkan Pen.
Iberian Pen.
Anatolean Pen.
Peloponnesian Pen.

16. What’s the answer ??

17. B o d i e s of W a t e r Arctic Ocean Atlantic Ocean North Sea
Baltic Sea
English Channel
Caspian Sea
Bay of Biscay
Black Sea
Dardanelles Strait
Adriatic Sea
Tyrrhenian Sea
AegeanSea
Strait of Gibraltar
Mediterranean Sea

18. The Mediterranean Sea: Mare Nostrum
Strait of Gibraltar & the “Pillars of Hercules”
2,400 miles long & 1,000 miles wide
“Crossroads of 3 Continents”
Caesarea on the Israeli coast

19. Why are most of the capitals of Europe on major rivers??

20. Capitals on the Rivers (1)
London on the Thames
Paris, right bank of the Seine
Prague on the Vltava
Budapest on the Danube

21. Capitals on the Rivers (2)
Moscow on the Moscow River
Berlin on the Spree
Rome on the Tiber
Vienna on the Danube

22. What’s the answer ??

23. They are Europe’s lifeline!
Answer:
They are Europe’s lifeline!

24. R i v e r s Volga R. Thames R. Vistula R. Elbe R. Rhine R. Dnieper R.
Seine R.
Loire R.
Danube R.
Po R.
Tiber R.
Ebro R.

25. The Danube River
1770 miles

26. Biking Along the Danube
The Danube River
Where Buda & Pest Meet
Biking Along the Danube
Flows through the 12 countries of Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, and the Ukraine.

27. The longest river in Europe --> 2,300 miles.
The Volga River
The longest river in Europe --> 2,300 miles.

28. The Volga River
The river is so polluted that the sturgeon catch has been decreased by 60%.

29. M o u t a i n s & P e a k s Ural Mts. Carpathian Mts. Caucasus Mts.
Alps Mts.
Pyrennes Mts.
Dinaric Alps
Apennines Mts.
Mt. Vesuvius ^
Mt. Olympus ^
Mt. Etna ^

30. The Alps
Cover most of Switzerland, Austria, and parts of Italy and France.

31. Mt. Blanc in the Alps
Highest mountain in the Alps: 15,771 feet

32. The Caucasus Mountains
The origin of the word Caucasian.

33. Transylvania in the Carpathian Mountains
Home of Vlad Tepeš, the Drakul (“Count Dracula”)

34. Ural Mountains: “The Great Divide”
1500 miles
Divides the European and Asian sections of Russia.

35. The Ural Mountains

36. Northern European Plain
Siberian Lowlands
P l a i n s
Northern European Plain
Steppes

37. Northern European Plain
Arctic Ocean
C o m p l e t e d
M a p
Siberian Lowlands
Ural Mts.
Scandinavian Pen.
Atlantic Ocean
Jutland Pen.
Volga R.
North Sea
Baltic Sea
Don R.
Northern European Plain
Thames R.
Elbe R.
Vistula R.
English Channel
Rhine R.
Oder R.
Steppes
Dnieper R.
Seine R.
Carpathian Mts.
Caspian Sea
Loire R.
Caucasus Mts.
Bay of Biscay
Alps Mts.
Crimean Pen.
Danube R.
Po R.
Pyrennes Mts.
Italian Pen.
Dinaric Alps
Balkan Pen.
Black Sea
Tagus R.
Dardanelles Strait
Tiber R.
Apennines Mts.
Iberian Pen.
Adriatic Sea
Mt. Vesuvius ^
Ebro R.
Anatolean Pen.
Tyrrhenian Sea
Mt. Olympus ^
AegeanSea
Strait of Gibraltar
Mt. Etna ^
Peloponnesian Pen.

38. World Population by Continents
Asia
3,737,000,000
Africa
823,000,000
Europe
729,000,000
North America
486,000,000
South America
351,000,000
Oceania (incl. Australia)  
31,000,000
Antarctica
no permanent population

39. Members of the Indo-European Language Family

40. Major Religious Groups in Europe

41. Arrivederci!
Good Bye!
Au Revoir!
Adios!
Cairete!
Auf Wiedersehen!
Do Svidaniya!