Is Russia Europe or Asia? #Shorts

Is Russia Europe or Asia?
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If you look at it geographically, 77% of the Russian territory belongs to Asia. This is the majority of the country. So, are we Asians? Maybe.
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At the same time, another 23% (almost a quarter!) belongs to Europe. Are we Europeans then? Maybe, too.
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MY OPINION: I would look at the Russian mentality rather than geography.
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I see and feel that most of the parts of the Russian culture are more related to the Asian culture (working conditions, family relationships, etc), so I would think we are more Asians than Europeans.
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BUT
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The beauty is not to be absolute! Our charm is that we are a mixture!
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What do you think?

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[F.Picknaipa]

Geographically Europe is not a continent It's just a peninsula of Asia. So geographically all europeans are from Asia. Culturally Russia is European

[Rar-ig]

It’s a European nation, its capital history and culture are in Europe. Siberia was only colonized by Russia and most of it has European culture. They’re only small republic in Siberia. Russians are Europeans. Geographically Russia is in Europe. Search for the definition.

[Edian]

But 77% of Population is in Europe and 23% in Asia

[B.Mrinmoy]

i think ur explanation are beautiful as u r

[ЛюдмилаФедорова-из]

Россия европейская страна.
Да, большинство территории находится в Азии, но при этом 75% населения живет в европейской части. Также исторически ядро государства зарождалось в Европе.
Культура, язык, письменности, религия и прочее европейские и практически не имеют азиатских черт.
Один из самых восточных городов России - Владивосток, который находится у границы с Китаем и Японием культурно полностью европейский

[livrowland]

Isn't your history and culture, also language, more closely linked to Europe? Also, the main cities, especially historically.

[arjunsuri]

There is no separate known as Europe. It’s Eurasia and the oldest recorded name for this Continent is Jambudweep.

[quotestv]

There's nothing called Europe, it's all Asia
I'm a person who has body and hand is part of my body not separate, same goes for so called Europe.
It just a myth.

[nkraramparambil]

They're Europeans, you are an example for that

[ThorIsBoss]

IMHO the people are overwhelmingly European both genetically and culturally. FYI..I have a Russian wife (who is also Asian (Kalmyk)).

[ricardo]

Im not european myself but i view Russia as a european country i cannot see them as Asian

[lamour]

Moscow- the capital city of Russia is in Europe and Russia citizens mostly stay in the Europe side so pp commonly considered it as an Europe country

[DaCostaRica]

its european because the capital is in europe only the capital matters if your capital is in that country thats what the country is like america being in north america because its capital is their

[parameshwarankumar]

But Russia's capital Moscow are located in Europe side

[hydrolito]

Czar was named after Caesar and Romanovs after Romans.

[Stellarionas]

When referring to continents, there are no “borders”, as they are not sovereign states, but geographical regions. Continents have boundaries between them, not “borders”.

Europe and Asia are actually a single continent (Eurasia). The demarcation between the two isn't really about culture, it's about the extent of easy access between landmasses. Ural Mountains, Caucasus, Caspian Sea, Black Sea, Bosporus straits, Hellespont strait, Aegean Sea, all these places made the access between the mainland territories limited. That's why these specific locations were chosen as the demarcating line.

The demarcation between Europe and Asia is topographical and also partially geological.

The boundaries between Europe and Asia are the:

1. Ural Mountains
2. Ural River
3. Caspian Sea
4. Caucasus
5. the entire coastline of Anatolia/Asia Minor
6. the under-sea boundary between the Aegean micro-plate and the Anatolian micro-plate

hence

i. Ἴμβρος (Gökçeada),
ii. Λαγοῦσες (Tavşan),
iii. Τένεδος (Bozcaada)

iv. Μοσχονῆσι (Alibey Adası)

v. every island in the Gulf of Smyrna (İzmir) (Ἐρμαϊκὸς Κόλπος)

vi. Ταράμπτος/Salih island (Muğla Province)
vii. Ἀρκός/Karaada (Muğla Province)

viii. Ρῶ (Ro)
ix. Μεγίστη (Megisti)
x. Στρογγυλὴ Μεγίστης (Strongyli of Megisti)
and
xi. Κύπρος (Cyprus)

are Mediterranean islands that are part of Asia.

At that point I'd like to state that the boundaries between continents do not affect the political borders between countries, so whatever I mention above is strictly about geography and not geopolitics.

[YourLocalPolishPatriot]

The capital is in the Eu And more of the population lives in EU and The president olso lives in the Eu.

[krishnaz]

It's not about land it's always decided by ethnicity. You don't belong to Oriental Asian race. You're a Caucasian white women. And Mongols, Chinese, Japanese are the Orientals. South Asians are Asian who are mix of dravidians especially Tamils and other Asian races. So history is mess in south Asia. Even Korean and Japanese islands seems to have few migrations done by dravians so it's really fascinating.

[DavidPatiyan]

I am russian and I definitely don’t feel asian nor do i look asian

[jinzhihliao]

The main problem is that people define “Asians” as a racial term. In reality Asians comes in all shades of skin colors.