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Eurasia

American  
[yoo-ray-zhuh, -shuh, yuh-] / jʊˈreɪ ʒə, -ʃə, jə- /

noun

  1. Europe and Asia considered together as one continent.


Eurasia British  
/ jʊəˈreɪʃə, -ʒə /

noun

  1. the continents of Europe and Asia considered as a whole

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Eurasia Cultural  
  1. Land mass consisting of the continents of Europe and Asia.


Etymology

Origin of Eurasia

Eur(o)- + Asia


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The diesel sales and lifting of sanctions could provide Russia with tens of millions of dollars per month, estimates Sergey Vakulenko of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, who calls it “small fry for Russia.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

The discovery of Masripithecus helps connect previously separated fossil records from Africa and Eurasia.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026

The Hula Valley lies within the Levantine Corridor, a natural passage connecting Africa and Eurasia that played an important role in the movements of ancient humans and animals.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

"It's difficult for the government to respond to the legitimate demands of students and others because it has no money," analyst Mujtaba Rahman, head of the Eurasia Group, said on X.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

That is, cattle were domesticated independently in India and western Eurasia, within the last 10,000 years, starting with wild Indian and western Eurasian cattle subspecies that had diverged hundreds of thousands of years earlier.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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