Europe, the whole continent is divided into four major regions based on environmental, cultural, and economic similarities. The Eastern Europe or the Slavic countries consist of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and the Slovak Republic. Eastern Europe also contains Balkan Europe, which includes the countries of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, and Serbia-Montenegro.

The Western Europe as the industrial heartland of Europe, consists of Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the Republic of Ireland, and the United Kingdom. The British Isles is a section within Western Europe. This area is made up of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland. Also included in Western Europe is Alpine Europe: Austria and Switzerland.  On the contrary the Northern Europe includes Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Southern Europe, sometimes called Mediterranean Europe, consists of Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain.

The major industrial core of the continent stretches from the southeastern corner of England, down to include Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, into the eastern part of France, the western section of Germany, all of Switzerland, the western tip of Austria, and into northern Italy.

The physical landscape of the entire continent is varied from lowlands to high Alpine peaks. If anyone gives a glance he or she will find between the northern and alpine mountains, lowland and better soils dominate. Other features to be found are hilly plateaus, glaciated lands, and river plains. Metallic mineral and energy resources are contained in the rocks. However, there is easy access to the ocean from nearly all areas of Europe.

It must be kept in mind, tat though an unnatural feature with the other regions of the world virtually each and every country of Europe contains some mountainous land. The Alps are mountain ranges on the northern margins of Mediterranean, Southern, Europe. The Sierra Nevada mountain range is in Southern Spain. The Pyrenees Mountains for the border between France and Spain. The backbone of the Italian peninsula is the Apennine Mountains. The Dinaric Alps are in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, and Albania. In Greece are the Pindus Mountains. The Carpathian Mountains are a range in Slovakia, southwestern Ukraine, and Romania. Bulgaria has the Balkan Mountains.

In respect of culture there is a wide array of difference between the European countries, cultures and people though all of them owe their origin to the identical Latin group of languages.