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How Many Countries in Europe?
Countries in Europe: 44
and
Dependencies or other territories: 3
There are 44 countries in Europe today, according to the United Nations. The full list is shown in the table below. Not included in this total of “countries” and listed separately are:
Dependencies (or dependent territories, dependent areas) or Areas of Special Sovereignty (autonomous territories)
Country
- Russia – Eastern Europe
- Germany – Western Europe
- United Kingdom – Northern Europe
- France – Western Europe
- Italy – Southern Europe
- Spain – Southern Europe
- Poland – Eastern Europe
- Ukraine – Eastern Europe
- Romania – Eastern Europe
- Netherlands – Western Europe
- Belgium – Western Europe
- Sweden – Northern Europe
- Czech Republic (Czechia) – Eastern Europe
- Greece – Southern Europe
- Portugal – Southern Europe
- Hungary – Eastern Europe
- Belarus – Eastern Europe
- Austria – Western Europe
- Switzerland – Western Europe
- Serbia – Southern Europe
- Bulgaria – Eastern Europe
- Denmark – Northern Europe
- Slovakia – Eastern Europe
- Finland – Northern Europe
- Norway – Northern Europe
- Ireland – Northern Europe
- Croatia – Southern Europe
- Moldova – Eastern Europe
- Bosnia and Herzegovina – Southern Europe
- Albania – Southern Europe
- Lithuania – Northern Europe
- Slovenia – Southern Europe
- North Macedonia – Southern Europe
- Latvia – Northern Europe
- Estonia – Northern Europe
- Luxembourg – Western Europe
- Montenegro – Southern Europe
- Malta – Southern Europe
- Iceland – Northern Europe
- Andorra – Southern Europe
- Liechtenstein – Western Europe
- Monaco – Western Europe
- San Marino – Southern Europe
- Holy See – Southern Europe
Dependencies or other territories:
- The Isle of Man (Dependency of U.K.)
- Faeroe Islands (Dependency of U.K.)
- Gibraltar (Dependency of Denmark)
Fact
Europe is the second-smallest continent, and it could be described as a large peninsula or as a subcontinent. Europe is the western portion of the Eurasian landmass and is located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere. Several larger islands belong to Europe, such as Iceland or the British Isles with the UK and Ireland.
Area
With an area of 10.2 million km² (3,938,000 sq mi), Europe is 20% larger than the contiguous United States. The European Union has an area (without the UK) of over 4.23 million km² (1.6 million sq mi).
Geography of Europe
Europe is the world’s second-smallest continent after Australia. Mainland Europe is geographically a great big peninsula, the western part of the Eurasian supercontinent.
The European continent, despite it has no clear geographical or geological boundary in the east, is by convention ‘separated’ from Asia by the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caucasus Mountains, in the southeast by the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea (see Map of Asia, with the soft border between the continents).
In the south, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe from the African continent. Europe’s western borders are defined by the Atlantic Ocean and on the north by the Polar Sea.
Source: nationsonline.org, worldometers.info
