Short answers, pulled from the story.
Europe covers approximately 10,186,000 square kilometres, about 2 percent of Earth's surface and 6.8 percent of its land area. Under the seven-continent model this makes it the second-smallest continent.
Europe is commonly separated from Asia by the watershed of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea, and the Turkish straits. In 1725 Philip Johan von Strahlenberg first proposed using the Ural Mountains as part of the divide.
In classical Greek mythology, Europa was a Phoenician princess. One view derives her name from the Ancient Greek elements eurus, meaning wide or broad, and ops, meaning eye or face, giving a sense of wide-gazing.
Europe is divided into about fifty sovereign states. Russia is the largest and most populous, spanning 39 percent of the continent and comprising 15 percent of its population.
Warm Atlantic currents, especially the Gulf Stream, carry warm water from the Gulf of Mexico across the Atlantic to Europe, producing a temperate climate. The Gulf Stream is nicknamed Europe's central heating because it makes the continent warmer and wetter than it would otherwise be.
The Treaty of Rome in 1957 established the European Economic Community among six Western European states, which became the European Union in 1993 and introduced the euro. The EU expanded to 28 countries between 2004 and 2013, and the United Kingdom withdrew on the 31st of January 2020.