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{{Short description|Combined landmasses of Europe and Asia}}
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{{Infobox continent
|title = Eurasia
|image = [[File:Eurasia (orthographic projection).svg|220px]]
|area = {{convert|55,000,000|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}
|population = 5,360,351,985 (As of 16 October 2019)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/europe-population/|title=Population of Europe (2019) - Worldometers|website=www.worldometers.info|access-date=15 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190911160248/https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/europe-population/|archive-date=11 September 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/asia-population/|title=Population of Asia (2019) - Worldometers|website=www.worldometers.info|access-date=16 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190721211812/https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/asia-population/|archive-date=21 July 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
|density = {{convert|93|/km2|/sqmi|abbr=on}}
|demonym = Eurasian
|countries = ~[[List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Eurasia#Sovereign states|93 countries]]
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|dependencies = [[List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Eurasia#Dependent territories|9 dependencies]]
|time = [[UTC−01:00|UTC−1]] to [[UTC+12]]
}}

'''Eurasia''' ({{IPAc-en|j|ʊəˈr|eɪ|ʒ|ə}}) is the largest [[continent]]al area on [[Earth]], comprising all of [[Europe]] and [[Asia]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Nield|first=Ted|title=Continental Divide|url=http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/en/Education%20and%20Careers/Ask%20a%20Geologist/Continents%20Supercontinents%20and%20the%20Earths%20Crust/Continental%20Divide|work=Geological Society|access-date=8 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203005136/http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/en/Education%20and%20Careers/Ask%20a%20Geologist/Continents%20Supercontinents%20and%20the%20Earths%20Crust/Continental%20Divide|archive-date=3 December 2013|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="NatlGeo">{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/continent/|title=How many continents are there?|publisher=[[National Geographic Society]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716045120/https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/continent/|quote=By convention there are seven continents: [[Asia]], [[Africa]], [[North America]], [[South America]], [[Europe]], [[Australia (continent)|Australia]], and [[Antarctica]]. Some geographers list only six continents, combining [[Europe]] and [[Asia]] into Eurasia. In parts of the world, students learn that there are just five continents: Eurasia, Australia (Oceania), Africa, Antarctica, and the [[Americas]].|access-date=27 July 2017|archive-date=16 July 2019}}</ref> Primarily in the [[Northern Hemisphere|Northern]] and [[Eastern Hemisphere]]s, it spans from the [[British Isles]] and the [[Iberian Peninsula]] in the west to the [[Japanese archipelago]] and the [[Russian Far East]] in the east. The continental landmass is bordered by the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and [[Africa]] to the west, the [[Pacific Ocean]] to the east, the [[Arctic Ocean]] to the north, and by [[Africa]], the [[Mediterranean Sea]], and the [[Indian Ocean]] to the south.<ref>{{cite web|title=What is Eurasia?|url=http://geography.about.com/od/learnabouttheearth/a/What-Is-Eurasia.htm|publisher=geography.about.com|access-date=17 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121118165606/http://geography.about.com/od/learnabouttheearth/a/What-Is-Eurasia.htm|archive-date=18 November 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> The division between Europe and Asia as two continents is a historical [[social construct]], as many of their borders are over land; thus, in some parts of the world, Eurasia is recognized as the largest of the six, five, or four continents on [[Earth]].<ref name="NatlGeo"/> In geology, Eurasia is often considered as a single rigid megablock. However, the rigidity of Eurasia is debated based on [[paleomagnetic]] data.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Pavlov|first=V.E.|year=2012|title=Siberian Paleomagnetic Data and the Problem of Rigidity of the Northern Eurasian Continent in the Post Paleozoic|journal=Izvestiya, Physics of the Solid Earth|volume=48|issue=9–10|pages=721–737|doi=10.1134/S1069351312080022|bibcode=2012IzPSE..48..721P|s2cid=129745964}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Li|first1=Yong-Xiang|last2=Shu|first2=Liangshu|last3=Wen|first3=Bin|last4=Yang|first4=Zhenyu|last5=Ali|first5=Jason R.|date=1 September 2013|title=Magnetic inclination shallowing problem and the issue of Eurasia's rigidity: insights following a palaeomagnetic study of upper Cretaceous basalts and redbeds from SE China|journal=Geophysical Journal International|language=en|volume=194|issue=3|pages=1374–1389|bibcode=2013GeoJI.194.1374L|doi=10.1093/gji/ggt181|issn=0956-540X|doi-access=free}}</ref>

Eurasia covers around {{convert|55,000,000|km2|mi2}}, or around 36.2% of the [[Earth]]'s total land area; and is home to the [[List of countries and dependencies by area|largest country in the world]], [[Russia]]. The landmass contains well over 5 billion people, equating to approximately 70% of the [[human population]]. Humans first settled in Eurasia between 60,000 and 125,000 years ago. Some major islands, including [[Great Britain]], [[Iceland]], [[Ireland]], and [[Sri Lanka]], as well as those of [[Japan]], the [[Philippines]], and most of [[Indonesia]], are often included in the popular definition of Eurasia, despite being separate from the contiguous landmass.

According to some geographers [[Physical geography|physiographically]], Eurasia is a single continent.<ref name="NatlGeo"/> The concepts of Europe and Asia as distinct continents date back to [[classical antiquity|antiquity]], and their borders are geologically arbitrary and have historically been subjected to occasional change. Eurasia is connected to [[Africa]] at the [[Suez Canal]], and Eurasia is sometimes combined with Africa to make the largest contiguous landmass on Earth called [[Afro-Eurasia]].<ref>{{cite book | title='continents' – ''Encyclopedia of World Geography, Volume 1'' | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DJgnebGbAB8C&pg=PA215 | editor=R. W. McColl | year=2005 | publisher=Golson Books Ltd. | isbn=9780816072293 | page=215 | access-date=26 June 2012 | quote=And since Africa and Asia are connected at the Suez Peninsula, Europe, Africa, and Asia are sometimes combined as Afro-Eurasia or Eurafrasia. | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160609201429/https://books.google.com/books?id=DJgnebGbAB8C&pg=PA215 | archive-date=9 June 2016 | url-status=live }}</ref> Due to the vast landmass and differences in latitude, Eurasia exhibits all types of climate under the [[Köppen climate classification|Köppen classification]], including the harshest types of hot and cold temperatures, high and low precipitation and various types of [[ecosystem]]s.

==Geology==
{{Further information|Laurasia}}
[[File:Mongols-map.png|thumb|right|The boundary of the 13th century [[Mongol Empire]] and location of today's [[Mongols]] in modern Mongolia, Russia and China.]]
Eurasia formed between 375 and 325 million years ago with the merging of [[Siberia]], [[Kazakhstania]], and [[Baltica]], which was joined to [[Laurentia]], now North America, to form [[Euramerica]]. Chinese [[craton]]s collided with Siberia's southern coast.

==History==
{{Main article|History of Eurasia}}
Eurasia has been the host of many ancient civilizations, including those based in [[Mesopotamia]], the [[Indus Valley]] and [[China]]. In the [[Axial Age]] (mid-[[first millennium BC]]), a continuous belt of civilizations stretched through the Eurasian [[Subtropics|subtropical zone]] from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This belt became the mainstream of world history for two millennia.

==Geopolitics==
Originally, “Eurasia” is a geographical notion: in this sense, it is simply the biggest continent; the combined landmass of Europe and Asia. However, geopolitically, the word has several meanings, reflecting specific geopolitical interests.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Andreen|first1=Finn|title=The Concept of Eurasia|url=http://commentandoutlook.blogspot.fr/2014/04/the-concept-of-eurasia-part-i.html|website=Blogger.com /|publisher=Comment and Outlook|access-date=6 June 2014|date=2014-04-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606223433/http://commentandoutlook.blogspot.fr/2014/04/the-concept-of-eurasia-part-i.html|archive-date=6 June 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> “Eurasia” is one of the most important geopolitical concepts and it figures prominently in the commentaries on the ideas of [[Halford Mackinder]]. As [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]] observed on Eurasia:

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“... how America "manages" Eurasia is critical. A power that dominates “Eurasia” would control two of the world’s three most advanced and economically productive regions. A mere glance at the map also suggests that control over “Eurasia” would almost automatically entail Africa’s subordination, rendering the Western Hemisphere and Oceania geopolitically peripheral to the world’s central continent. About 75 per cent of the world’s people live in “Eurasia”, and most of the world’s physical wealth is there as well, both in its enterprises and underneath its soil. “Eurasia” accounts for about three-fourths of the world’s known energy resources.”<ref>{{cite book|last1=Brzezinski|first1=Zbigniew|title=The grand chessboard : American primacy and its geostrategic imperatives|url=https://archive.org/details/grandchessboarda00brze_0|url-access=registration|date=1997|publisher=Basic Books|location=New York, NY|isbn=978-0465027262|page=[https://archive.org/details/grandchessboarda00brze_0/page/31 31]|edition=[Repr.]}}</ref>}}

The Russian "[[Eurasianism]]" corresponded initially more or less to the land area of [[Imperial Russia]] in 1914, including parts of [[Eastern Europe]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Nartov|first1=N. A.|title=Geopolitika : [učebnik]|date=2004|publisher=Edinstvo|location=Moskva|isbn=978-5238006826|at=Part 2.4, p. 50|edition=3rd}}</ref> One of Russia's main geopolitical interests lies in ever closer integration with those countries that it considers part of “Eurasia.”<ref>{{cite web|last1=Andreen|first1=Finn|title=The Concept of Eurasia|url=http://commentandoutlook.blogspot.fr/search/label/Russia|website=Blogger.com|publisher=Commentary and Outlook|access-date=6 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160130030446/http://commentandoutlook.blogspot.fr/search/label/Russia|archive-date=30 January 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> This concept is further integrated with communist eschatology by author [[Alexander Dugin]] as the guiding principle of "self-sufficiency of a large space" during expansion.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Dugin|first1=Alexander|title=Eurasia: A Special Worldview|url=http://www.4pt.su/en/content/eurasia-special-worldview|website=The Fourth Political Theory|access-date=30 April 2017|date=2017-03-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170531025959/http://4pt.su/en/content/eurasia-special-worldview|archive-date=31 May 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

The term ''Eurasia'' gained [[geopolitics|geopolitical]] reputation as one of the three superstates in [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|''1984'']],<ref>{{cite book |last=Tovy |first=Tal |date=2015 |title=The changing nature of geostrategy, 1900-2000: the evolution of a new paradigm |url=https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/1003655.pdf |location=Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama |publisher=Air University Press. Air Force Research Institute |page=19 |isbn=978-1-58566-253-1 |access-date=8 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190807104101/https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/1003655.pdf |archive-date=7 August 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[George Orwell]]'s<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-maps-are-too-small-geography-strategy-and-the-national-interest/the-maps-are-too-small-geography-strategy-and-the-national-interest |title=The Maps are Too Small: Geography, Strategy and the National Interest |last=Porter |first=Patrick |date=27 February 2012 |website=Foreign & Commonwealth Office |publisher=Government Digital Service |access-date=8 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190727230105/https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-maps-are-too-small-geography-strategy-and-the-national-interest/the-maps-are-too-small-geography-strategy-and-the-national-interest |archive-date=27 July 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> novel where constant [[surveillance]] and [[propaganda]] are strategic elements (introduced as [[Reciprocal inhibition|reflexive antagonists]]) of the [[Homogeneity and heterogeneity|heterogeneous]] [[dispositif]] such [[metapolitics|metapolitical]] constructs used to control and exercise power.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ingram |first1=Alan |date=2017 |title=Art, Geopolitics and Metapolitics at Tate Galleries London |url=http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1532789/1/AM.pdf |journal=Geopolitics |volume=22 |issue=3 |pages=719–739 |doi=10.1080/14650045.2016.1263186 |s2cid=151769284 |access-date=3 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412055558/http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1532789/1/AM.pdf |archive-date=12 April 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:EEA CES.PNG|thumb|right|upright=1.75|[[Single market]]s in European and post-Soviet countries; [[European Economic Area]] and [[Common Economic Space (CIS)|Common Economic Space]]]]

==Regional organisations and alliances==
Across Eurasia, several single markets have emerged including the [[Eurasian Economic Space]], [[European Single Market]], [[ASEAN Economic Community]] and the [[Gulf Cooperation Council]]. There are also several [[international organizations]] and initiatives which seek to promote integration throughout Eurasia, including:

[[File:ASEM.PNG|thumb|upright=1.15|[[Asia–Europe Meeting|ASEM]] Partners]]
===Asia-Europe Meeting===
* Every two years since 1996 a meeting of most Asian and European countries is organised as the [[Asia–Europe Meeting]] (ASEM).

===Commonwealth of Independent States===
{{main|Commonwealth of Independent States}}
* The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a political and economic association of 10 post-Soviet republics in Eurasia formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It has an estimated population of 239,796,010. The CIS encourages cooperation in economical, political and military affairs and has certain powers to coordinate trade, finance, lawmaking and security. In addition, six members of the CIS have joined the [[Collective Security Treaty Organization]], an intergovernmental military alliance that was founded in 1992.

[[File:Eurasian Economic Union.svg|thumb|300px|{{legend|#307030|Member States of the Eurasian Economic Union}}{{legend|#a0d020|Observer states}}{{legend|#0080ff|Other candidate states}}]]
===Eurasian Union===
{{See also|Enlargement of the Eurasian Economic Union}}
* Similar in concept to the European Union, the [[Eurasian Union]] is an [[economic union]] established in 2015 including Russia, [[Armenia]], [[Belarus]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Kyrgyzstan]] and observer members [[Moldova]], [[Uzbekistan]], and [[Cuba]]. It is headquartered in [[Moscow]], Russia and [[Minsk]], Belarus. The union promotes economic integration among members and is theoretically open to enlargement to include any country in Europe or Asia.

===Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges===
* The [[Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges]] (FEAS) is an international organization headquartered in [[Yerevan]], comprising the main stock exchanges in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. The purpose of the Federation is to contribute to the cooperation, development, support and promotion of capital markets in the Eurasian region.
[[File:Lisbon to Vladivostok.svg|thumb|Area from [[Lisbon]] to [[Vladivostok]] with all [[European country|European]] and [[Commonwealth of Independent States|CIS]] countries]]

===Russia-EU Common Spaces===
* The [[Russia–European Union relations|Russia - EU Four Common Spaces Initiative]], is a joint [[European Union]] and Russian agreement to closer integrate Russia and the EU, remove barriers to trade and investment and promote reforms and competitiveness. In 2010, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called for common economic space, free-trade area or more advanced economic integration, stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok. However, no significant progress was made and the project was put on hold after Russia-EU relations deteriorated following the [[Russo-Ukrainian War]] in 2014.

===Shanghai Cooperation Organisation===
{{main|Shanghai Cooperation Organisation}}
* The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is a Eurasian political, economic and security alliance, the creation of which was announced on 15 June 2001 in Shanghai, China. It is the largest regional organisation in the world in terms of geographical coverage and population, covering three-fifths of the Eurasian continent and nearly half of the human population.

==Use of term==
===History of the Europe–Asia division===
{{main|Boundary between Asia and Europe}}
[[File:Asia-map.png|thumb|Physical map of Asia]]
In ancient times, the [[Greeks]] classified [[Europe]] (derived from the mythological [[Phoenicians|Phoenician]] princess [[Europa (mythology)|Europa]]) and [[Asia]] which to the Greeks originally included Africa <ref>[https://books.google.dz/books?id=Zw7d4sZuYl0C&pg=PA2&dq=afroeurasia+continent&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj8qeKuotbzAhUvCGMBHYLDAx0Q6AF6BAgIEAI#v=onepage&q=afroeurasia%20continent&f=false Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789 By Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, University Merry E Wiesner-Hanks]</ref> (derived from [[Asia (mythology)|Asia]], a [[woman]] in [[Greek mythology]]) as separate "lands". Where to draw the dividing line between the two regions is still a [[boundaries between continents|matter of discussion]]. Especially whether the [[Kuma-Manych Depression]] or the [[Caucasus Mountains]] form the southeast boundary is disputed, since [[Mount Elbrus]] would be part of Europe in the latter case, making it (and not [[Mont Blanc]]) Europe's highest mountain. Most accepted is probably the boundary as defined by [[Philip Johan von Strahlenberg]] in the 18th century. He defined the dividing line along the [[Aegean Sea]], [[Dardanelles]], [[Sea of Marmara]], [[Bosporus]], [[Black Sea]], [[Kuma–Manych Depression]], [[Caspian Sea]], [[Ural River]], and the [[Ural Mountains]]. However, at least part of this definition has been subject to criticism by many modern analytical geographers like [[Halford Mackinder]], who saw little validity in the Ural Mountains as a boundary between continents.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jrVW9W9eiYMC&pg=PA8 |title=Europe: A History |page=8 |access-date=23 August 2010|isbn=978-0-19-820171-7|date=1996|last1=Davies|first1=Norman}}</ref>

===Geography===
In modern usage, the term "Eurasian" is a demonym usually meaning "of or relating to Eurasia" or "a native or inhabitant of Eurasia".<ref>American Heritage Dictionary</ref> It is also used to describe people of combined "Asian" and "European" descent.

Located primarily in the [[Eastern Hemisphere|eastern]] and [[Northern Hemisphere|northern hemispheres]], Eurasia is considered a [[supercontinent]], part of the supercontinent of [[Afro-Eurasia]] or simply a continent in its own right.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pangaea Supercontinent|url=http://geology.com/articles/supercontinent.shtml|publisher=Geology.com|access-date=19 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110113222321/http://geology.com/articles/supercontinent.shtml|archive-date=13 January 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> In [[plate tectonics]], the [[Eurasian Plate]] includes Europe and most of Asia but not the [[Indian subcontinent]], the [[Arabian Peninsula]] or the area of the [[Russian Far East]] east of the [[Chersky Range]].

From the point of view of history and culture, Eurasia can be loosely subdivided into Western and Eastern Eurasia.<ref>"Anthropologically, historically and linguistically Eurasia is more appropriately, though vaguely subdivided into West Eurasia (often including North Africa) and East Eurasia", Anita Sengupta, ''Heartlands of Eurasia: The Geopolitics of Political Space'', Lexington Books, 2009, p.25</ref>

===Soviet states after decentralization===
[[File:Cold War border changes.png|thumb|upright=1.182|Changes in national boundaries after the collapse of the [[Eastern Bloc]]]]
Nineteenth-century Russian philosopher [[Nikolai Danilevsky]] defined Eurasia as an entity separate from Europe and Asia, bounded by the Himalayas, the Caucasus, the [[Alps]], the Arctic, the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, a definition that has been influential in Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Schmidt|first1=Matthew|title=Is Putin Pursuing a Policy of Eurasianism?|journal=Demokratizatsiya |date=2005|volume=1|issue=13|page=90}}</ref> Nowadays, partly inspired by this usage, the term Eurasia is sometimes used to refer to the [[post-Soviet space]] – in particular [[Russia]], the [[Central Asia]]n republics, and the [[South Caucasus|Transcaucasus]] republics – and sometimes also adjacent regions such as [[Turkey]] and [[Mongolia]].

The word "Eurasia" is often used in [[Kazakhstan]] to describe its location. Numerous Kazakh institutions have the term in their names, like the [[Lev Gumilev|L. N. Gumilev]] Eurasian National University ({{lang-kk|[[:kk:Еуразия ұлттық университеті|Л. Н. Гумилёв атындағы Еуразия Ұлттық университеті]]}}; {{lang-ru|[[:ru:Евразийский Национальный университет имени Л. Н. Гумилёва|Евразийский Национальный университет имени Л. Н. Гумилёва]]}})<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.emu.kz/ |title=L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University |publisher=Emu.kz |date=29 July 2010 |access-date=7 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228233409/http://www.emu.kz/ |archive-date=28 February 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> ([[Lev Gumilev]]'s [[Eurasianists|Eurasianism]] ideas having been popularized in Kazakhstan by [[Olzhas Suleimenov]]), the Eurasian Media Forum,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eamedia.org/about |title=The Eurasian Media Forum |publisher=Eamedia.org |access-date=7 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100409212419/http://www.eamedia.org/about |archive-date=9 April 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> the Eurasian Cultural Foundation ({{lang-ru|[[:ru:Евразийский фонд культуры|Евразийский фонд культуры]]}}), the [[Eurasian Development Bank]] ({{lang-ru|[[:ru:Евразийский банк развития|Евразийский банк развития]]}}),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eabr.org/eng |title=Eurasian Development Bank |publisher=Eabr.org |access-date=7 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524164422/http://www.eabr.org/eng/ |archive-date=24 May 2010 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> and the Eurasian Bank.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eurasian-bank.kz/ |title=Eurasian Bank |publisher=Eurasian-bank.kz |access-date=7 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124054745/http://www.eurasian-bank.kz/ |archive-date=24 November 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2007 Kazakhstan's president, [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]], proposed building a "[[Eurasia Canal]]" to connect the [[Caspian Sea]] and the [[Black Sea]] via Russia's [[Kuma-Manych Depression]] to provide Kazakhstan and other Caspian-basin countries with a more efficient path to the ocean than the existing [[Volga-Don Canal]].<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2002408.ece Canal will link Caspian Sea to world] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911155457/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2002408.ece |date=11 September 2011 }} (The Times, 29 June 2007)</ref>

This usage can also be seen in the names of [[Eurasianet]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Eurasianet|url=http://www.eurasianet.org/|access-date=13 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001034029/https://eurasianet.org/|archive-date=1 October 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Journal of Eurasian Studies]],<ref>{{cite book|title=Journal of Eurasian Studies|url=https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-eurasian-studies/|website=Elsevier|access-date=13 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313215418/https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-eurasian-studies/|archive-date=13 March 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> and the [[Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies]],<ref>{{cite web|title=About ASEEES|url=http://aseees.org/about|website=Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies|access-date=13 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170323175022/http://www.aseees.org/about|archive-date=23 March 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> as well as the titles of numerous academic programmes at US universities.<ref>{{cite web|title=Slavic and Eurasian Studies|url=https://gradschool.duke.edu/academics/programs-degrees/slavic-and-eurasian-studies|website=Duke Graduate School|access-date=13 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313221145/https://gradschool.duke.edu/academics/programs-degrees/slavic-and-eurasian-studies|archive-date=13 March 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Russian and Eurasian Studies|url=http://russianstudies.gmu.edu/|website=George Mason University|access-date=13 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118060402/http://russianstudies.gmu.edu/|archive-date=18 January 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies|url=https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/slavic/|website=University of Texas at Austin|access-date=13 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313220103/https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/slavic/|archive-date=13 March 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies|url=https://creees.stanford.edu/|website=Stanford University|access-date=13 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313195134/https://creees.stanford.edu/|archive-date=13 March 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies|url=http://iseees.berkeley.edu/|website=University of California, Berkeley|access-date=13 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214052705/http://iseees.berkeley.edu/|archive-date=14 February 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

This usage is comparable to how Americans use "[[Western Hemisphere]]" to describe concepts and organizations dealing with the Americas (e.g., [[Council on Hemispheric Affairs]], [[Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation]]).

==See also==
{{portal|Geography|Asia|Europe}}



* [[Asia-Europe Foundation]]
* [[Asia–Europe Meeting]]
* [[Afro-Eurasia]]
* [[Borders of the continents]]
* [[Council of Europe]]
* [[Community for Democracy and Rights of Nations]]
* [[Eastern European Group]]
* [[Eastern Partnership]]
* [[Eurasia (Nineteen Eighty-Four)#Eurasia|Eurasia (Nineteen Eighty-Four)]]
* [[Eurasian (disambiguation)]]
* [[Eurasian Economic Community]]
* [[Eurasia Tunnel]]
* [[Eurasia Canal]]
* [[Eurasian Union]]
* [[Eurasianism]]
* [[European Union]]
* [[Euronest Parliamentary Assembly]]
* [[Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges]]
* [[Intermediate Region]]
* [[Laurasia]], a geological supercontinent joining Eurasia and North America.
* [[List of Eurasian countries by population]]
* [[Marmaray]], railway tunnel links Europe to Asia.
* [[Neo-Eurasianism]]
* [[Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation]]
* [[Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe]]
* [[Palearctic]]
* [[Shanghai Cooperation Organisation]]
* [[United States of Eurasia]]
* [[Vega expedition]], the first voyage to circumnavigate Eurasia

==Further reading==
* The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order by Bruno Maçães, Publisher: Allen Lane
* D. Lane, V. Samokhvalov, The Eurasian Project and Europe Regional Discontinuities and Geopolitics, Palgrave: Basingstoke (2015)
* V. Samokhvalov, The new Eurasia: post-Soviet space between Russia, Europe and China, European Politics and Society, Volume 17, 2016 – Issue sup1: The Eurasian Project in Global Perspective (Journal homepage)
* {{cite book|last1=Lewis |first1=Martin W. |first2=Kären E. |last2=Wigen |author-link2 = Kären Wigen|title=The Myth of Continents: a Critique of Metageography |year=1997 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C2as0sWxFBAC |ref={{sfnref|Lewis & Wigen, The Myth of Continents|1997}}|isbn=978-0-520-20743-1 }}

==References==
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==External links==
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