How many countries are there in Europe

Europe is the second smallest continent after Oceania, has an extension of about 10, 530, 751 km2 and a population of around 739, 000, 000 inhabitants. Its extension can be located in the eastern half of the Northern Hemisphere, stretching from the Arctic Glacier Ocean in the north to the Mediterranean Sea in the south. On the west, it reaches the Atlantic Ocean and on the east limits Asia. Russia is the largest country in the European continent, while the Vatican City is the one with the least extension. If you want to know more and know how many countries there are in Europe, as well as which of them are part of the European Union, keep reading this article to discover it.

European countries and their capitals

Europe is a continent made up of a total of 50 countries, of which 7 are called Eurasian, since its extension is found on both continents, as we will see later. Next, we show you which are all the countries of Europe ordered alphabetically and with their respective capitals:

Albania - Tirana
Germany - Berlin
Andorra - Andorra la Vella
Austria - Vienna
Belgium - Brussels
Belarus - Minsk
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Sarajevo
Bulgaria - Sofia
Vatican City - Vatican City
Croatia - Zagreb
Denmark - Copenhagen
Slovakia - Bratislava
Slovenia - Ljubljana
Spain - Madrid
Estonia - Tallinn
Finland - Helsinki
France - Paris
Greece - Athens
Hungary - Budapest
Ireland - Dublin
Iceland - Reykjavik
Italy - Rome
Latvia - Riga
Liechtenstein - Vaduz
Lithuania - Vilnius
Luxembourg - Luxembourg
Malta - Valletta
Moldova - Chisinau
Monaco - Monaco
Montenegro - Podgorica
Norway - Oslo
The Netherlands - Amsterdam
Poland - Warsaw
Portugal - Lisbon
United Kingdom - London
Czech Republic - Prague
Republic of Macedonia - Skopje
Romania - Bucharest
San Marino - San Marino
Serbia - Belgrade
Sweden - Stockholm
Switzerland - Bern
Ukraine - Kiev

Eurasian countries

As we have said, there are 7 countries that have been considered European and Asian at the same time. These have part of their extension in both continents and due to the great controversy generated about which continent each one belonged to, it was decided to classify them as Eurasian countries. These are the following:

Armenia - Yerevan
Azerbaijan - Baku
Cyprus - Nicosia
Georgia - Tifilis
Kazakhstan - Astana
Russia - Moscow
Turkey - Ankara

Countries that are part of the European Union

European policy is marked by the existence of an economic and political entity to which a total of 28 European countries belong . We are talking about the European Union (EU), an association based on the rule of law and with all its activities based on the treaties that the different member countries have democratically agreed upon. The EU is governed by the principle of representative democracy, has a single currency (the euro) and its institutional capital is Brussels, which is where most of the community institutions have been established.

Below, we detail which are the 28 countries that are part of the European Union and we also show you the year of entry of each of them: