Rising along the line where eastern and western Europe divide, a forested mountain range is home to shepherds, villages and ...

Europe is located in the Northern Hemisphere. The Atlantic Ocean is to the west of the continent. Europe is above the Equator and the very north of the continent is within the Arctic Circle. The ...

This story appears in the May 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Almost 20 percent of Europe is now under some form of protection, and there’s a huge shift under way as Europeans ...

The Carpathians, Nick Thorpe writes in “Walking Europe’s Last Wilderness,” are the “geographical center of Europe.” Their peaks and ridges form the watershed between the Baltic Sea to ...