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प्रश्न
Give geographical reason
Europe is rightly called the ‘peninsula of peninsulas’.
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उत्तर
Europe is called ‘Peninsula of Peninsulas’ as whole Europe containing 50 countries juts out westward from Eurasia and surrounded by the Arctic Ocean in North Atlantic in West and the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea in South.
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