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Europe has an area of about 3,789,000 square miles. The population is estimated at 480,000,000. The highest point in Europe is Mt. Elbrus, in the Caucasus Mountains, with a height of 18,465 feet, and the lowest is the Caspian Sea, in Russia, 86 feet below sea level. The mean approximate height of Europe is 980 feet, as compared with 1300 feet in each of the two Americas and 1600 feet in Africa and in Asia.