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___MASK96___ is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia . ___MASK96___ is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north , the Atlantic Ocean to the west , and the Mediterranean Sea to the south . To the east and southeast , ___MASK96___ is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains , the Ural River , the Caspian and Black Seas , and the waterways of the Turkish Straits . Yet the non - oceanic borders of ___MASK96___  a concept dating back to classical antiquity  are arbitrary . The primarily physiographic term " continent " as applied to ___MASK96___ also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the continent ' s current overland boundaries . Sakmara River ( Russian :  ; Bashkir :  , Haqmar ) is a river in Russia that drains the southern tip of the Ural Mountains south into the Ural River . It is 760 kilometres ( 470 mi ) long . It is a tributary of the Ural River , which it meets in Orenburg . The source of the Sakmara River is in the Republic of Bashkortostan . Other towns along the Sakmara are Yuldybayevo ( Bashkortostan ) , Kuvandyk , and railway station Saraktash clouse to the Wozdwizhenskaya Fortress ( Orenburg Oblast ) . It rises in the southern Ural Mountains about 60 kilometres ( 37 mi ) west - southwest of Magnitogorsk and flows south through a valley with some canyon development . At Kuvandyk it swings west , leaves the mountains and flows west parallel to the Ural River with many meanders for about 150 kilometres ( 93 mi ) ( straight - line distance ) before turning south to meet the Ural . Major tributaries are the Salymysh River and the Bolshoy Ik River , both from the north . ___MASK6___ is the combined continental landmass of ___MASK96___ and Asia . The term is a portmanteau of its constituent continents . Located primarily in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres , it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west , the Pacific Ocean to the east , the Arctic Ocean to the north , and by Africa , the Mediterranean Sea , and the Indian Ocean to the south . The division between ___MASK96___ and Asia as two different continents is a historical and cultural construct , with no clear physical separation between them ; thus , in some parts of the world , ___MASK6___ is recognized as the largest of five or six continents . In geology , ___MASK6___ is often considered as a single rigid megablock . However , the rigidity of ___MASK6___ is debated based on the paleomagnet data . Novaya Zemlya ( lit . " new land "), also known , especially in Dutch , as Nova Zembla , is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean in northern Russia and the extreme northeast of ___MASK96___ , the easternmost point of ___MASK96___ lying at Cape Flissingsky on the Northern island . Administratively , it is incorporated as Novaya Zemlya District , one of the twenty - one in Arkhangelsk Oblast , Russia . Municipally , it is incorporated as Novaya Zemlya Urban Okrug . The Danube (, known by various names in other languages ) is ___MASK96___ ' s second - longest river , after the Volga River , and also the longest river in the European Union region . It is located in Central and Eastern ___MASK96___ . Russia ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in ___MASK6___ . At , Russia is the largest country in the world by surface area , covering more than one - eighth of the Earth ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth most populous , with over 140 million people at the end of March 2016 . The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % of the population live in European Russia . Russia ' s capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and Samara . The Kazakhs ( also spelled Kazaks , Qazaqs , , ; the English name is transliterated from Russian ) are a Turkic people who mainly inhabit the southern part of Eastern ___MASK96___ Ural mountains and northern parts of Central Asia ( largely Kazakhstan , but also found in parts of Uzbekistan , China , Russia and Mongolia ), the region also known as Eurasian sub - continent . Kazakh identity is of medieval origin and was strongly shaped by the foundation of the Kazakh Khanate between 1456 and 1465 , when several tribes under the rule of the sultans Zhanibek and Kerey departed from the Khanate of Abu ' l - Khayr Khan . Kazakhstan ( " Qazaqstan ", " Kazakhstan "), officially the Republic of Kazakhstan (" Qazaqstan Respwblïkas " " Respublika Kazakhstan "), is a transcontinental country in northern Central ___MASK5___ and Eastern ___MASK96___ . Kazakhstan is the world ' s largest landlocked country , and the ninth largest in the world , with an area of . Kazakhstan is the dominant nation of Central ___MASK5___ economically , generating 60 % of the region ' s GDP , primarily through its oil / gas industry . It also has vast mineral resources . The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area , variously classed as the world ' s largest lake or a full - fledged sea . It is in an endorheic basin ( it has no outflows ) located between ___MASK96___ and Asia . It is bound by Kazakhstan to the northeast , Russia to the northwest , Azerbaijan to the west , Iran to the south , and Turkmenistan to the southeast . The Ural or Jayq / Zhayyq (, ), known as Yaik before 1775 , is a river flowing through Russia and Kazakhstan in ___MASK6___ . It originates in the southern Ural Mountains and ends at the Caspian Sea . At , it is the third - longest river in ___MASK96___ after the Volga and the Danube , and the 18th - longest river in Asia . The Ural River is conventionally considered part of the boundary between the continents of ___MASK96___ and Asia . The Ural Mountains , or simply the Urals , are a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western Russia , from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the Ural River and northwestern Kazakhstan . The mountain range forms part of the conventional boundary between the continents of ___MASK96___ and Asia . Vaygach Island and the islands of Novaya Zemlya form a further continuation of the chain to the north into the Arctic Ocean . Orenburg is the administrative center of Orenburg Oblast ( region ), Russia , lies on the River Ural , southeast of Moscow . Its geographical location is in the boundary of ___MASK96___ and Asia . Orenburg is also very close to the border with Kazakhstan . Population : 548 , 331 ( 2010 Census ); 549 , 361 ( 2002 Census ); Russia is not proportionately populated between the smaller western portion ( almost 25 %) of the country that is considered part of ___MASK96___ , and the larger eastern portion ( more than 75 %) that is part of Asia . European Russia contains about 77 % of the country ' s population ( 110 , 000 , 000 people out of about 144 , 000 , 000 ) in an area comprising almost 4 million km ( 1 . 54 million mi ); an average of 27 . 5 persons per km ( 70 per mi ). This territory makes up 38 % of ___MASK96___ . Its eastern border is defined by the Ural Mountains and in the south , it is defined by the border with Kazakhstan . This area includes Moscow and Saint Petersburg , the two largest cities in Russia . Yekaterinburg , alternatively romanised as " Ekaterinburg ", is the fourth - largest city in Russia and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast , located in the middle of the Eurasian continent , on the border of ___MASK96___ and Asia . At the 2010 Census , it had a population of 1 , 349 , 772 . ___MASK5___ is Earth ' s largest and most populous continent , located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres and sharing the continental landmass of ___MASK6___ with the continent of ___MASK96___ . ___MASK5___ covers an area of , about 30 % of Earth ' s total land area and 8 . 7 % of the Earth ' s total surface area . The continent , which has long been home to the majority of the human population , was the site of many of the first civilizations . ___MASK5___ is notable for not only its overall large size and population , but also dense and large settlements as well as vast barely populated regions within the continent of 4 . 4 billion people .