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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.

Sint-Stevens-Woluwe, called Woluwe-Saint-Etienne in French, is a town located near Brussels, the capital of Belgium. It is part of Zaventem municipality, in the Flemish Brabant province. The Woluwe is a stream that goes through several municipalities in the southeast and east of Brussels and is a tributary of the Senne River in Vilvoorde. Brussels is the capital of Belgium, of the French Community of Belgium, of the Flemish Community. Zaventem is a municipality in the province of Flemish Brabant, in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium. Flanders, borders on the Belgian provinces of Antwerp, Limburg, Liege, Walloon Brabant, Hainaut and East Flanders.
 
Belgium derives its name from the Latin name of the most northern part of Gaul, Gallia Belgica, named after a group of mostly Celtic tribes, Belgae. Historically, Belgium has been a part of the Low Countries, which also include the Netherlands and Luxembourg and used to cover a somewhat larger region than the current Benelux group of states. From the end of the middle Ages until the seventeenth century, it was a prosperous centre of commerce and culture. Belgium, at that time called the Southern Netherlands, was the site of many battles of old between the European powers, and has been dubbed the battlefield or cockpit of Europe, more recently, Belgium was a founding member of the European Union, hosting its headquarters, as well as others like the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO.

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