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Salem
Europe is one of the five inhabited traditional continents of the Earth. Physically and geologically, Europe is the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, west of Asia. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea, and to the southeast by the waterways adjoining the Mediterranean to and including the Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains. On the east, Europe is divided from Asia by the water divide of the Ural Mountains and by the Caspian Sea. Europe is the world's second-smallest continent in terms of area and third-largest continent after Asia and Africa in population.
Salem is a Swedish municipality in Stockholm County, in central Sweden. The name traces its original from Slaem in the 16th century, but was later changed to Salem, the Biblical name of Jerusalem. In 2005, the population of the city was 14,612 and an area 54 square kilometers. Salem has a significant amount of ancient remains, as far back as the Stone Age. Salem was united with the municipality of Botkyrka during the Swedish municipal reformed in 1971 to 1974.
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