EUROPE: Europe has an block of over 10 million sq. kms/4 million sq. miles and encompasses such a incalculable and diverse region ranging from Scandinavia in the north, the Joint Kingdom and France in the west, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece in the south and the Baltic and Balkan states and Russia in the east. Hiking, trekking and mountain climbing are altogether popular activities amongst the assorted populations contained within this Brobdingnagian continent.