How Would You Group The European Countries by European Regions (your personal opinion)?

[Peterski]

Material of which walls of buldings in Polish towns and cities were made as of 1931 census:

Small towns = up to 20 thousand inhabitants
Large towns = over 20 thousand inhabitants
6 largest cities = Warsaw, Lodz, Lvov, Poznan, Cracow, Vilno

Legend:

Type of town or city - brick or stone % / wood or Prussian wall % / clay or ground %

Western Poland (Voivodeships: Poznanskie, Pomorskie, Slaskie):

Small towns - 90.6% / 4.6% / 4.5%
Large towns - 91.4% / 7.1% / 0.7%

Central Poland (Congress Kingdom of Poland before 1914):

Small towns - 35.2% / 63.5% / 1.1%
Large towns - 60.4% / 39.0% / 0.2%

Southern Poland (Galicia and Lodomeria before 1914):

Small towns - 28.8% / 58.7% / 12.1%
Large towns - 53.3% / 43.6% / 2.7%

Eastern Poland (Russian Western Krai before 1914):

Small towns - 10.7% / 88.7% / 0.4%
Large towns - 20.5% / 78.9% / 0.4%

Six largest cities as of 1931:

Poznan (Western Poland) - 90.1% / 7.9% / 1.2%
Cracow (Southern Poland) - 85.5% / 14.2% / 0.0%
Lvov (Southern Poland) - 79.2% / 19.2% / 1.0%
Warsaw (Central Poland) - 69.1% / 30.5% / 0.0%
Lodz (Central Poland) - 66.1% / 33.2% / 0.0%
Vilno (Eastern Poland) - 26.6% / 73.1% / 0.3%

[Annie999]

north of the alps and pyreaneas north/south divide east of the carpathians germany/poland, austria/hungary/czech is west/east.

so basically (france, austria, benelux, germany, holland, britain, scandinavia is northwest). spain, italy and greece are south. the others are east european.

I agree with this, only I concider half france as south.

[Peterski]

^^^
In Western Poland almost everything was brick or stone, because Prussian authorities made construction of wooden buildings illegal in the early 1800s (it was one of their fire prevention policies). In Austrian-controlled and Russian-controlled areas no such fire prevention policy was implemented.

[alnortedelsur]

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[Tacitus]

This map, more or less:

[alnortedelsur]

Every people on here can have different opinions of how to divide the European continent.

My way on dividing its countries/regions would be as follows:

Northern Europe: Scandinavia (Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, and perhaps Finland), Northern Russia, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Northern Germany, Northern Poland and Netherlands.

Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia would also have their own subgroup within northern Europe (they would be the Baltic countries: the easternmost subdivision of Northern Europe).

Northwestern Europe: Ireland, UK (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), Belgium, and Luxembourg.

France: by itself.

Central Europe: Southern Germany, Southern Poland, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary.

Iberian Peninsula: Spain, Portugal and Andorra.

Italy: by itself (including the very small republics of Vatican and San Marine).

Balkan countries: most people would agree in including all the ex Yugoslavian republics (ie, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Slovenia, Kosovo and Macedonia), Albania, Bulgaria, and Greece.

Some people would also include Romania as part of the Balkans, though I have read some other people say that Romania is not part of the Balkans. In any case, I include Romania and Moldavia as another region by itself (Romania/Moldavia). I have not clear, however, if I can count Romania as part of the Balkans.

Other people also claim that Croatia and Slovenia are not Balkan countries, though most people agree that they're part of the Balkans.

Eastern Europe: here there is some overlap, since all Poland would be part of Eastern Europe, but its northern part is also part of northern Europe and its southern part is also part of Central Europe, and Baltic countries are also eastern European countries. Then, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, aside of being Central European would also be part of Eastern Europe, and the Balkan countries (except Greece and Albania) could also be considered Eastern European, besides Balkan. And same for Romania/Moldavia (they are their own Romania/Moldavia region, but thry're also eastern European).

Finland could also be considered Eastern European, I guess.

The Caucasus: Georgia and Armenia (also part of Eastern Europe)

Eastern European proper countries: (those that are only eastern European and that are not part of the Caucasus, Balkans, Central or Northern Europe): Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Northern Russia could be counted as part of northern Europe, and at the same time as part of eastern Europe, but it also sounds right to only considering it as being part of eastern Europe, like the rest of Russia.

Then, Iberia, France, the British Islands, the Scandinavian countries (except Finland), Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Italy (and perhaps Austria?) could also be considered Western European.

As you all can see, is kind of complicated.

How would you divide Europe yourself. Opinions?

I think I would make 2 corrections to my own categorization.

North Western Europe:

Ireland, UK, Belgium, Luxembourg and Northern France.

South Western Europe:

Iberian Peninsula (Spain, Portugal and Andorra), Southern France, and all Italy

And I am not sure if grouping Ukraine, and perhaps Slovenia, Croatia, Romania and Moldavia, as Central European.

[Peterski]

How about splitting Italy in half - Northern Italy goes to South-Western Europe, and Southern Italy goes to South-Eastern Europe (together with Greece and the Balkans)?

[alnortedelsur]

How about splitting Italy in half - Northern Italy goes to South-Western Europe, and Southern Italy goes to South-Eastern Europe (together with Greece and the Balkans)?

Yeah, I don't disagree. It would also make sense.

But where would you group Central Italy with? I think they're reasonably close (genetically and phenotype wise) with both SE Europe and SW Europe. Like an hybrid.

[Stefanos.tasidis]

This more or less. I wouldnt' group Greece and Turkey but other than that it's close:

This one is 100% what i think is europe, it includes countries ethno-culturally european.
groups together the ones that are more similar.
Good job whoever made it