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Backpacking is the outdoor recreation of carrying gear on one's back, while hiking for more than a day.

It is often but not always an extended journey, and may or may not involve camping outdoors.

In North America tenting is common, where simple shelters and mountain huts found widely in Europe are rare.

In New Zealand, tramping is an equivalent term though overnight huts are frequently used.

Hill walking is the equivalent in Britain, though backpackers make use of all kinds of accommodation, in addition to camping.

Backpackers use simple huts in South Africa.

Similar terms used in other countries are trekking and bushwalking.

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.

The eastern boundary with Asia is a historical and cultural construct, as there is no clear physical and geographical separation between them; 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 Europe—a concept dating back to classical antiquity—are 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.