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| | Amazon.com: The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition: Books: Rough Guides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | The collapse of the division between eastern and western Europe at the end of the 1980s, and the ever closer ties among the fifteen countries of the European Union, have contributed to a feeling that Europe is increasingly becoming a single entity. |
 | | Conventionally, the geographical boundaries of Europe are the Ural Mountains in the east, the Atlantic Coast in the north and west, and the Mediterranean in the south. |
 | | In northwestern Europe Benelux, Denmark, southwestern Norway, most of France and parts of Germany, as well as the British Isles the climate is basically a cool temperate one, with the chance of rain all year round and no great extremes of either cold or hot weather. |
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