THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT AND THE EUROPEAN UNION. Europe is located in the warm zone in the northern hemisphere. To the North we find the Arctic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa to the South. Asia to the East, and the Atlantic Ocean to the West. Europe is the world's second-smallest continent by surface area (The rest of continent are Asia, America, Africa and Australia-Oceania). Apart from Antarctica. THE EUROPEAN RELIEF.
PLAINS AND MOUNTAINS: .- Plains: The most important plain is the North European Plain, which expands from Belgium to the Urals. .- Old mountains: (not too high) like Massif Central (in France) and the Black Forest (in Germany) .- Young mountains: (very high) like the Alps, Pyrenees, Apennine mountains, Caucasus, the Urals, the Carpathians, the Balkans mountains‌ THE COASTS: .- Northern coasts (in the Arctic Ocean): in Iceland, and the Scandinavian Peninsula and Jutland Peninsula. .- Western Coasts (in the Atlantic Ocean): British Islands (in the Black Sea). .- Southern Coasts (in the Mediterranean Sea): There are seas: Tyrrhenian Sea, Adriatic Sea, Ionian Sea and Aegean Sea. And there are peninsulas: Iberian Peninsula, Italian Peninsula, Balkan Peninsula, and many islands. .- Eastern Coasts: with some interior seas like the Black Sea and Caspian Sea.