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The Iberian Peninsula is separated from the rest of Europe by the Pyrenees Mountains. This mountain range forms a natural border between Spain and France.
The natural barrier between the Iberian Peninsula and France is the Pyrenees mountain range.
The natural barrier between the Iberian Peninsula and France is the Pyrenees mountain range.
Spain is in Europe, so there is no mountain range that divides Spain from Europe. What you are referring to is the Pyrenees Mountains, which forms much of Spain's border with France. As Spain is in the southeast of Europe, it could be looked upon as a boundary between Spain and most of the rest of Europe.
Spain and Portugal are on the Iberian Peninsula.
The closest gap between the Iberian Peninsula (Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar) and Africa is between Gibraltar (South tip of Spain) and Morocco. The narrow stretch of water between these two countries is known as the strait of Gibraltar. To the East of this strait, the Iberian Peninsula is separated from Africa by the Mediterranean sea, and to the West of the strait of Gibraltar, Africa and the Iberian Peninsula are separated by the Atlantic Ocean.The Strait of Gibraltar.
The Pyrenees' location is on the continent of Europe. This range of mountains creates a border between Spain and France and also acts as a the separation point between the Iberian Peninsula and continental Europe.
The two major countries are Spain and Portugal. The principality of Andorra, in the Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain, might also be included. The other country represented on the peninsula is the United Kingdom, with its small (2.5 square mile) territory of Gibraltar at the southern tip of Spain.
The Strait of Gibraltar
The Pyrenees mountain range isolates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe. It forms a natural border between Spain and France.
The Pyrenees Mountain Range.
There is no "Liberian peninsula." The Iberian Peninsula includes the countries of Spain and Portugal, and under some interpretations the country of Andorra between France and Spain.