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topic_name = Europe [[Image:EUR Map serbia update500.jpg|thumb|center]] |
subtopics = Regions: [[Albania]], [[Andorra]], [[Austria]], [[Belarus]], [[Belgium]], [[Bosnia]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Channel Islands]], [[Croatia]], [[Cyprus]], [[Czech Republic]], [[Denmark]], [[Estonia]], [[Faeroe Islands]], [[Finland]], [[France]], [[Germany]], [[Gibraltar]], [[Greece]], [[Hungary]], [[Iceland]], [[Ireland]], [[Isle of Man]], [[Italy]], [[Latvia]], [[Liechtenstein]], [[Lithuania]], [[Luxembourg]], [[Macedonia]], [[Malta]], [[Moldova]], [[Monaco]], [[Montenegro]], [[Netherlands]], [[Norway]], [[Poland]], [[Portugal]], [[Romania]], [[Russia]], [[San Marino]], [[Serbia]], [[Slovakia]], [[Slovenia]], [[Spain]], [[Svalbard]], [[Sweden]], [[Switzerland]], [[Ukraine]], [[United Kingdom]], [[Vatican]] |
opinion_pieces = {{short_opinions}} |
}}
Europe is an ethnically diverse continent with around 700 million inhabitants. It is mostly economically wealthy, containing the large and influential [[European Union]]. It has traditionally been the home of Christianity being the centres of [[Eastern Orthodoxy]], [[Roman Catholicism]] and [[Protestantism]]. There is widespread freedom of religion, however Europe is rapidly become predominantly secular with [[atheism]] as the major belief system.
Europe can be divided reasonably neatly into
* Northern and Western) Europe
* Southern Europe
* Eastern Europe
In the last few centuries, especially in the last generation, with increasing scientific awareness and affluence in Western Europe, nominal Christianity and atheism have become very prominent. Western Europe is more secular than anywhere else in the world, and many people are Christians in name only.
===Geography===
===Peoples===
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