Continental Europe

"Europe? Well, that seems original. Not only Europe is a continent, but I knew that it could include islands. Would that make it count?"

--Su Ji-Hoon, Good Thing Brexit Didn't Happen

Continental or mainland Europe is the continuous continent of Europe excluding its surrounding islands. It can also be referred to ambiguously as the European continent—which can conversely mean the whole of Europe—and by Europeans, simply the Continent.