{"id":35969,"date":"2018-10-25T19:57:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T19:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=35969"},"modified":"2018-10-25T20:04:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T20:04:18","slug":"geography-the-border-between-europe-and-asia-part-0-the-caucasus-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/geography-the-border-between-europe-and-asia-part-0-the-caucasus-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Geography: the border between Europe and Asia, part 0: the Caucasus Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Self-tutoring about geography: the tutor researches the Euro-Asian border.<\/h2>\n<p>According to the CIA World Factbook, Georgia is in Asia, yet identifies as European.<\/p>\n<p>Some define the Euro-Asian border, in fact, as Georgia&#8217;s northern border, in the Caucasus Mountains. From that point of view, Georgia and south is in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, some geographers refer to a &#8220;border region&#8221; in the Caucasus, rather than a border, between Europe and Asia. They conceive it to include Armenia and Azerbaijan as well.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the EU describes the definition of Europe as cultural as well as geographical.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldatlas.com\/articles\/what-physical-and-political-features-delineate-the-border-between-europe-and-asia.html\">www.worldatlas.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldatlas.com\/articles\/is-armenia-in-europe-or-asia.html\">www.worldatlas.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldatlas.com\/articles\/how-much-of-azerbaijan-is-in-europe.html\">www.worldatlas.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldatlas.com\/articles\/is-georgia-in-europe-or-asia.html\">www.worldatlas.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/geos\/gg.html\">www.cia.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stanford, Quentin H. (editor). <em>Canadian Oxford School Atlas<\/em>, 6th ed. Toronto: Oxford University Press.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about geography: the tutor researches the Euro-Asian border. According to the CIA World Factbook, Georgia is in Asia, yet identifies as European. Some define the Euro-Asian border, in fact, as Georgia&#8217;s northern border, in the Caucasus Mountains. From that &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/geography-the-border-between-europe-and-asia-part-0-the-caucasus-region\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Geography: the border between Europe and Asia, part 0: the Caucasus Region<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35969"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35980,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35969\/revisions\/35980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}