 There are eight areas that are not integral parts of a European state or have special political status.Under the commonly used geographic definition, the boundary between the continents of Asia and Europe stretches along the Ural Mountains, Ural River, and Caspian Sea in the east, the Greater Caucasus range and the Black Sea, with its outlets, the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, in the south.Based on such commonly used division of the continents, transcontinental states Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkey have territory both in Europe and Asia.