Area > Comparative to US places less than one-half the size of the US
Area > Total	4,324,782 sq km		[13th of 250]
Climate cold temperate; potentially subarctic in the north to temperate; mild wet winters; hot dry summers in the south
Coastline	65,992.9 km		[5th of 271]
Elevation extremes > Highest point Mont Blanc 4,807 m; note - situated on the border between France and Italy
Elevation extremes > Lowest point Lammefjord, Denmark -7 m; Zuidplaspolder, Netherlands -7 m
Irrigated land	131,250 sq km		[5th of 196]
Land boundaries > Border countries Albania 282 km, Andorra 120.3 km, Belarus 1,050 km, Croatia 999 km, Holy See 3.2 km, Liechtenstein 34.9 km, Macedonia 394 km, Moldova 450 km, Monaco 4.4 km, Norway 2,348 km, Russia 2,257 km, San Marino 39 km, Serbia 945 km, Switzerland 1,811 km, Turkey 446 km, Ukraine 1,257 km
Land boundaries > Total	12,440.8 km		[5th of 166]
Location Europe between the North Atlantic Ocean in the west and Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine to the east
Map references Central America and the Caribbean
Natural hazards flooding along coasts; avalanches in mountainous area; earthquakes in the south; volcanic eruptions in Italy; periodic droughts in Spain; ice floes in the Baltic
Natural resources iron ore, natural gas, petroleum, coal, copper, lead, zinc, bauxite, uranium, potash, salt, hydropower, arable land, timber, fish
Terrain fairly flat along the Baltic and Atlantic coast; mountainous in the central and southern areas

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