EUROPE STUDY LIST Physical: EUROPE #2 Atlantic Ocean Arctic Ocean (smallest ocean) Strait of Gibraltar Mediterranean Sea Black Sea Caspian Sea (largest lake in the world) (divides Europe from Asia) English Channel (Strait of Dover) (Volga River – largest in Europe) Alps Urals (divide Europe from Asia) Caucasus (divide Europe from Asia) (Pyrenees) (Steppes – 1: vast area of dry grassland, often treeless, stretching from central Europe to southern Siberia in Asia; 2: grassy plains found in cooler areas) (North Sea) Denmark – Copenhagen Germany – Berlin Poland – Warsaw Czech Republic – Prague Slovakia – Bratislava Slovenia* Croatia* Bosnia-(Herzegovina)* - Sarajevo Serbia* - Belgrade Albania* Macedonia Greece – Athens Hungary – Budapest Romania – Bucharest Bulgaria - Sofia (Montenegro*) (Kosovo*) *Must know that these countries all used to be one larger country called Yugoslavia. This was when the U.S.S.R. controlled Eastern Europe during the Cold War era. Political: EUROPE #1 Ireland – Dublin United Kingdom – London Netherlands – Amsterdam Belgium – Brussels France – Paris Spain – Madrid Portugal – Lisbon Italy – Rome Switzerland – Bern Austria – Vienna Germany – Berlin Poland – Warsaw Denmark - Copenhagen EUROPE #3 Iceland – Reykjavik Norway – Oslo Sweden – Stockholm Finland – Helsinki Estonia Latvia Lithuania Belarus – (Minsk) Ukraine – Kiev Moldova Romania – Bucharest Hungary – Budapest Bulgaria – Sofia Greece – Athens Turkey – Ankara Russia - Moscow