# europe (region)

a region of land that includes many countries

- Computed level: L12 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: earth  ·  Arena: europe

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [region](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-region.spatial), [land](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-land.geography), [country](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-country.political), [include](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-include.addition)

**Through:** a spatial region containing land areas, in which multiple politically defined countries are included as parts, forming a larger geographic region

**Novel properties:**
- contains multiple sovereign nations
- higher-order regional structure
- inclusion of political units within physical geography

## 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)*

## Used by
- [england](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-england.political) (L17)
- [european](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-european.regional) (L13)

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-europe.region*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-europe.region.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*