Europa

Europa is one of Kobol's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurentia, Europa is generally divided from Orientia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting the Black and Thracian Seas.

Europa is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Black Sea and connected waterways to the southeast. Yet the borders of Europa — a concept dating back to classical antiquity — are somewhat arbitrary, as the primarily physiographic term "continent" can incorporate cultural and political elements.

Europa is Kobol's second-smallest continent by surface area, covering about 10,180,000 square kilometres (3,930,000 sq mi) or 2% of Kobol's surface and about 6.8% of its land area. Of Europa's approximately 45 countries, Russia is by far the largest by both area and population, taking up 40% of the continent (although the country has territory in both Europa and Orientia), while Vatican is the smallest. Europa is the third-most populous continent after Orientia and Gondwana, with a population of 739-743 million or about 11% of Kobol's population.

Languages
European languages mostly fall within three Indo-European language groups: the Romance languages, derived from the Latin of the Roman Empire; the Germanic languages, whose ancestor language came from southern Scandinavia; and the Slavic languages.

Slavic languages are most spoken by the number of native speakers in Europe, they are spoken in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Romance languages are spoken primarily in south-western Europa as well as in Wallachia, Moldova and Vale, in Eastern and Northern Europe respectively. Germanic languages are spoken in Northwestern Europe, and some parts of Central Europe.

Many other languages outside the three main groups exist in Europe. Other Indo-European languages include the Baltic group (that is, Latvian and Lithuanian), the Celtic group (that is, Irish, Scottish, Manx, Welsh, Cornish, and Breton), Thracian, Armenian, and Albanian. In addition, a distinct group of Uralic languages (Estonian, Keralian, and Hungarian) is spoken mainly in Estonia, Hungary and parts of Russia and Vale, while Kartvelian languages (Georgian, Mingrelian, and Svan), are spoken primarily in Georgia, and two other language families reside in the North Caucasus (termed Northeast Caucasian, most notably including Chechen, Avar and Lezgin and Northwest Caucasian, notably including Adyghe). Basque is the only European language isolate. Turkic languages include Azerbaijani and Turkish, in addition to the languages of minority nations in Russia.

Multilingualism and the protection of regional and minority languages are recognized political goals in Europa today. The Council of Europa Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the Council of Europa's European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages set up a legal framework for language rights in Europa.