Lesson Western European countries Plan: Introduction. Political map of the

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Rank	Country or territory	Population (most recent estimates)	Languages
Capital
1	United Kingdom	66,040,229	English	London
2	France (metropolitan)	65,058,000	French	Paris
3	Netherlands	17,249,632	Dutch, Frisian	Amsterdam
4	Belgium	11,420,163	Dutch, French and German	Brussels
5	Ireland	4,857,000	Irish, English	Dublin
6	Luxembourg	602,005	French, Luxembourgish and German	Luxembourg City
7	Monaco	38,300	French	Monaco (city-state)
Total		165,265,329

Using the CIA classification a little more liberally and including "South-Western Europe", would give the following calculation of Western Europe's population.

Rank	Country or territory	Population (most recent estimates)	Languages	Capital
1	United Kingdom	66,040,229	English	London
2	France (metropolitan)	65,058,000	French	Paris
3	Spain	46,700,000	Spanish, Galician, Catalan, Basque	Madrid
4	Netherlands	17,249,632	Dutch, Frisian	Amsterdam *Note: The Hague is the seat of government^[18]
5	Belgium	11,420,163	Dutch, French	Brussels
6	Portugal	10,291,027	Portuguese	Lisbon
7	Ireland	4,857,000	Irish, English	Dublin
8	Luxembourg	602,005	French, Luxembourgish and German	Luxembourg City
9	Andorra	78,264	Catalan	Andorra la Vella
10	Monaco	38,300	French	Monaco (city-state)
Total		222,293,922

Climate

European climate. The Köppen-Geiger climates map is presented by the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia and the Global Precipitation Climatology Center of the Deutscher Wetterdienst.
The climate of Western Europe varies from subtropical and semi-arid in the coasts of Italy, Portugal and Spain to alpine in the Pyrenees and the Alps. The Mediterranean climate of the south is dry and warm. The western and northwestern parts have a mild, generally humid climate, influenced by the North Atlantic Current.
Languages
Western European languages mostly fall within two Indo-European language families: the Romance languages, descended from the Latin of the Roman Empire; and the Germanic languages, whose ancestor language (Proto-Germanic) came from southern Scandinavia. Romance languages are spoken primarily in the southern and central part of Western Europe, Germanic languages in the northern part (the British Isles and the Low Countries), as well as a large part of Northern and Central Europe.
Other Western European languages include the Celtic group (that is, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Cornish and Breton) and Basque, the only currently living European language isolate.
Multilingualism and the protection of regional and minority languages are recognized political goals in Western Europe today. The Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the Council of Europe's European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages set up a legal framework for language rights in Europe.
Economy
Western Europe is one of the richest regions of the world. Germany has the highest gross domestic product in Europe and the largest financial surplus of any country, Luxembourg has the world's highest GDP per capita, and Germany has the highest net national wealth of any European state.
Switzerland and Luxembourg have the highest average wage in the world, in nominal and PPP, respectively. Norway ranks highest in the world on the Social Progress Index
Control questions?
1. What does the economic and social geography of the countries of the WE learn?
2. What is the world political map West Europe and its main objects?
3. Formation of the West Europe map.
4. Analyze the contemporary political map of the world.
5. The periods of formation of the West Europe political map.
6. Where is UK located?
7. Where is Germany located?
8. Where is Austria located?
9. Where is Belgium located?
10. Where is Nederland located?

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