WESTERN EUROPE
Western Europe encompasses the countries at the western edge of the European continent, from the North Sea and the English Channel in the north to the Alps and the Mediterranean in the south. The region was the epicenter of the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Industrial Revolution, and its nations collectively built and administered colonial empires that reshaped the political, economic, and cultural structure of nearly every other region in the world.
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