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    2. Fancy-Rock-Scripture on

      Googles definition is the most accurate to western Europeans however all the eastern Europeans always want to tell you why they are not „eastern Europe“.
      And I know there is a stigma for some people but honestly, I think everyone should be proud of where they’re from and who they are…

    5. Rainy_Fly on

      CIA world factbook definition is closest, eastern Europe is former European part of USSR (3 east Slavic nations, 3 Baltic sisters and Moldova). Although you could include Poland as well.

    6. Electrical-Bread-856 on

      Geography, nature and politics don’t align neatly so different purposes will have different definitions.

    13. LookingForMyCar on

      A lot of disagreements only comes from whether you define Central Europa as a separate region.
      If you only split East / West / North / South obviously Googles definition is the correct one.

      If you however add Central Europe which includes Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, CZ, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia you pretty much have the definition of the European Correspodant + Romania and Bulgaria.

    16. chloralhydrat on

      … funnily enough, most people who argue about this do not realize where the concept of „central europe“ (mitteleuropa) originally comes from – it is quite older than the existence of USSR. Central europe are the countries, which underwent a period of german colonization, and their culture is historically significantly rooted in medieval german customs.

    18. duva_ on

      Trace a line from Poland to Greece and there you have your division. It’s known as the kurwa – Malaka line

    19. tecate_papi on

      I wrote a whole master’s thesis about this. It gets even funnier when you talk about „the Balkans“ and who is and isn’t in the Balkans depending on who you ask. And then you throw in concepts like „Mitteleuropa“ and how that changes things…

    20. MarketingKnown5788 on

      Eastern Europe has always been a political term, same as Western Europe.
      Its definition is fluent and relates to the political landscape at the time of useage.
      Something along the lines of
      Pre-WW2: Russian Empire/Soviet Union
      Post-WW2: Eastern Bloc+Yugoslavia
      Post-Cold War: Russia+Belarus+Ukraine
      Post-2022: Russia+Belarus

    21. Tipy1802 on

      Do the ones that exclude the Balkans just have a separate category for “southeastern Europe”?

    22. g_spaitz on

      Every time something similar comes up in my brain there’s the video of the Slovenian guy going „where is Balkan?“

    28. JakeySvk on

      I know I’m biased, but seriously, just base the line on flushability of toilet paper and drinking tap water.

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