Top 10 ge­og­ra­phy of Europe facts

Madrid. Due to its altitude of 667 m (2,188 ft) above sea level, The Madrid region features a Mediterranean climate with cool winters, including sporadic snowfalls and minimum temperatures often below freezing.

Tara. The Tara is a river in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. It cuts the Tara River Canyon that is 78 kilometers long and has 1,300 meters at its deepest.

Iceland, having area of 103 000 km², is larger than Ireland (84 406 km²). Other European islands are much smaller.

Spain. Asturias is an autonomous community in north-west Spain. It is coextensive with the province of Asturias, and contains some of the territory that was part of the larger Kingdom of Asturias in the Middle Ages. Divided into eight comarcas (counties), the autonomous community of Asturias is bordered by Cantabria to the east, by Castile and León to the south, by Galicia to the west, and by the Bay of Biscay to the north.

Danube passes through or touches ten countries: Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Ukraine and Moldova. Its drainage basin extends into nine more.

Loire. The longest river in France is Loara (1012 km). The second is Rhone (812 km), Seine (776 km), and the fourth Garonne (602 km).

About 2,000 years ago. The Baltic Sea is one of the largest brackish inland seas by area, and occupies a basin formed by glacial erosion during the last few ice ages. It is about 1,600 km (990 mi) long, an average of 193 km (120 mi) wide, and an average of 55 metres (180 ft) deep. The maximum depth is 459 m (1,506 ft).The current course of the shoreline was formed about 2 thousand years ago.

5. This group includes 4 Nordic countries (Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark) and the Czech Republic.

Romania. The Danube, the second largest river in Europe (2845 km), flows into the Black Sea in Romania.

In France. The Massif Central is an elevated region in the middle of southern France, consisting of mountains and plateaus. It covers approximately 15 percent of the country. Subject to volcanism that has subsided in the last 10,000 years, these central mountains are separaten from the Alps by a deep north-south cleft created by the Rhône River and known in French as the sillon rhodanien (literally "the furrow of the Rhône").