europe · region
a region of land that includes many countries
Examples
- The Schengen Agreement enables passport-free travel across 27 European countries, despite varying national laws. institutions
- The 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupted air travel across northern Europe for six days. geography
- The European Grid connects power plants from Portugal to Poland, balancing electricity supply across 25 countries. engineering
Emergence
through: a spatial region containing land areas, in which multiple politically defined countries are included as parts, forming a larger geographic region
- contains multiple sovereign nations
- higher-order regional structure
- inclusion of political units within physical geography
Chain to foundations
as tree
- europeL12
- regionL6
- landL10
- countryL11
- boundaryL2 (shown above)
- governmentL10
- groupsL5
- lawL3
- peopleL6
- othersL2 (shown above)
- setsL3
- patternL0 (shown above)
- othersL2 (shown above)
- boundaryL2 (shown above)
- differenceL1 (shown above)
- persistL1 (shown above)
- distinctL3
- differenceL1 (shown above)
- othersL2 (shown above)
- entitiesL4
- interactingL4
- interactionL2 (shown above)
- touchL3 (shown above)
- groupsL5 (shown above)
- timeL0 (shown above)
- makeL4
- rulesL9
- spaceL0 (shown above)
- peopleL6 (shown above)
- areaL5 (shown above)
- spaceL0 (shown above)
- includeL5
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Used by (2)
Relations
| is-a | region.spatial | is-a |