query: continent river barrow
supports: Great Britain, also known as Britain , is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , Great Britain is the largest European island and the ninth-largest in the world. In 2011 the island had a population of about 61 million people, making it the world's third-most populous island after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan. The island of Ireland is situated to the west of it, and together these islands, along with over 1,000 smaller surrounding islands, comprise the British Isles archipelago. The Barrow ( Irish : An Bhearú ) is a river in Ireland . It is one of The Three Sisters ; the other two being the River Suir and the River Nore . The Barrow is the longest of the three rivers . At 192 km ( 120 mi ) , it is the second - longest river in Ireland , behind the River Shannon . The catchment area of the River Barrow is 3,067 km2 . The river 's long term average flow rate is 37.4 cubic metres per second . The source of the River Barrow is at Glenbarrow in the Slieve Bloom Mountains in County Laois . Among the towns that the River Barrow passes through on its way to the sea in Waterford are Portarlington , Monasterevin , Athy , Carlow / Graiguecullen , Muine Bheag ( i.e. Bagenalstown , ) Graiguenamanagh , and New Ross . The river also forms a natural border between parts of counties Kilkenny and Carlow and Kilkenny and Wexford . Europe is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia. Europe is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. To the east and southeast, Europe is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways of the Turkish Straits. Yet the non-oceanic borders of Europea concept dating back to classical antiquityare arbitrary. The primarily physiographic term "continent" as applied to Europe also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the continent's current overland boundaries. The British Isles are a group of islands off the north-western coast of continental Europe that consist of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland and over six thousand smaller isles. Situated in the North Atlantic, the islands have a total area of approximately 315,159 km, and a combined population of just under 70 million. Two sovereign states are located on the islands: Ireland (which covers roughly five-sixths of the island with the same name) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The British Isles also include three Crown Dependencies: the Isle of Man and, by tradition, the Bailiwick of Jersey and the Bailiwick of Guernsey in the Channel Islands, although the latter are not physically a part of the archipelago. The River Shannon is the longest river in Ireland at . It drains the Shannon River Basin which has an area of , one fifth of the area of Ireland. Ireland (Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest on Earth.
candidates: eurasia europe
answer: europe