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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.
 
Skovde Municipality is a Swedish municipality in Vastergotland in western Sweden. Its seat is in the Swedish city Skovde with 32,500 inhabitants living within an area of 677.7 square kilometers giving a population density of 73 inhabitants per square kilometer. The sole largest employer in the municipality is Volvo, with Volvo Powertrain and Volvo Cars together employing about 5,000 workers. Other major employers are the Skaraborg Hospital, serving the Skaraborg region, the local regiments, among Sweden's largest and the Skovde Municipality. The municipalities or Kommun of Sweden represent the local level of self government in Sweden. The current 290 municipalities form sub-divisions to the 21 Counties or Lan of Sweden. Västergotland is one of the historical provinces or landskap of Sweden, situated in the southwest of Sweden.
 
The Kingdom of Sweden is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, bordered by Norway in the west, Finland in the northeast, the Skagerrak Strait and the Kattegat Strait in the southwest, and the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia in the east. It is connected to Denmark in the southwest by the Oresund Bridge. Sweden has a low population density except in its metropolitan areas, with most of the inland consisting of forests. The country has large natural resources of water, timber, and iron ore.

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