Is Europe a peninsula of Eurasia and not a continent?

Technically, Europe is kind of a subcontinent like the Indian Subcontinent (south of the Himalayas) or the Arabian Peninsula (south of the Fertile Crescent). There is no insurmountable barrier between Central Asia or West Asia and Europe. read more

Geologically, Europe and Asia are Eurasia, and most of Europe is a peninsula, pn the Eurasian plate. However, geographers split up the landmass due to immense culturas differences between the two. So, the answer is maybe. read more

Europe is not a continent if we go by the traditional defination or even the newer ones. It is barelly a subcontinent (it shares the same tectonic as most of Asia, where as Arabia and India have a different one!). read more