Geography
At 145 kilometers (90 mi), Greater Sochi claims to be the longest city in Europe. Other sources using the Caucasus Mountains as the Europe-Asia divide place Sochi in Southwest Asia as it falls on the southern (Asian) side of the Greater Caucasus. on the other hand its location in Krasnodar Krai places it entirely within European Russia, since the territory of Russia west of the Ural Mountains is considered European.
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