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EUROPE, AREA OF. 



trol or action of the officers of the United 

 States. JOHN B. HAMILTON, 



Supervising Surgeon- General, 



U. S. Marine Hospital Service. 



EUROPE, AREA OF. A very comprehen- 

 sive work on the area of Europe has been pub- 

 lished, during 1882, by General Strelbitzky, of 

 the Russian general staff, under the auspices 

 of the Central Statistical Committee of Russia. 

 It contains estimates not only of the land sur- 

 face of the various countries, but also of the 

 islands in the adjoining waters, the areas of the 

 basins of the rivers, the areas covered by lakes 

 both on the mainland and on the islands, also 

 the areas of islands in the lakes, etc. In this 

 work he estimates the total area of Europe 

 at 10,410,486 square kilometres, or 8,865,210 

 English square miles, which are divided as 

 follow among the twenty-three countries oc- 

 cupying Europe : 



Of the total area of Europe, the continent 

 contains 3,608,750 square miles. The surface 

 of the islands, which is about one fourteenth 

 that of the continent, is 256,560 square miles, 

 and is divided as follows among the different 

 waters of Europe : 



Islands in Sq. miles. 



Atlantic Ocean 168,574 



Arctic Ocean 38,605 



Mediterranean Sea .... 82,522 



Baltic Sea 12,753 



NorthSea 2,487 



Islands in 



Adriatic Sea , 



"White Sea 



Sea of Marmora 



Sea of Azov , 



Black Sea , 



Sq. miles. 



191 

 70 

 41 

 21 



Great Britain, which, with an insular terri- 

 tory of 121,464 square miles, possesses only two 

 square miles of mainland, is followed by Den- 

 mark with 45,401 square miles of islands and 

 9,501 square miles of mainland. The insular 

 territory of the other countries is as follows : 



COUNTRIES. Sq. miles. 



Russia 42,370 



Italy 19,338 



Norway 8,583 



Greece 3,871 



Turkey 8,920 



France 3,686 



Sweden 8,040 



The principal islands of Europe and their 

 area are as follow : 



COUNTRIES. Sq. miles^ 



Spain 1,931 



Austria 1,272 



Germany 1,029 



Netherlands 638 



Portugal 17 



Roumania 0'4 



The length of the principal rivers (in English 

 miles), and the area of their basins (in square 

 miles), are as follow : 



The lakes of Europe cover an area of 84,829 

 square miles that is, about 2 per cent of the 

 total area of the continent. Of this number, 

 83,585 square miles are on the mainland and 

 1,244 square miles on the islands. The area 

 covered by lakes in each country is as follows : 



These lakes contain 3,037 square miles of 

 islands, of which 2,702 square miles are in Kus- 

 sia, 322 square miles in Sweden, 12 square miles 

 in Portugal, and 1 square mile in Montenegro. 

 The largest lakes in Europe are as follow : 



