10 interesting things about Europe - Frank Kaslik travelled to Europe which is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
1. Europe is named from the Greek mythological character Europa, mother of King Minos of Crete.
2. Europe covers only about two per cent of the Earth’s surface (including the oceans).
3. Strictly speaking Europe is not a continent but only a part of the Eurasian land mass.
4. The population of Europe is about 740 million which is one tenth of the world’s population.
5. The Greeks invented Asia and Europe to name the two sides of the Hellespont (now Dardanelles).
6. The highest toilet in Europe is on Mont Blanc nearly 14,000 feet up.
7. The European part of Russia accounts for 40 per cent of Europe’s land area.
8. Belarus is the only country in Europe that still has the death penalty on its statute book. Its last executions were in 2014.
9. The EU rules for obtaining an Ecolabel for a flushing toilet are 2,980 words long. The UN Declaration of Human Rights has 2,030.
10. The border does not follow political boundaries, with Turkey and Russia the largest transcontinental countries. Europe covers about 10,180,000 square kilometres, or 2% of the Earth's surface....Australia is about the same land mass as Europe. See insert.
Frank Kaslik - World Travels
