this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2024
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I'm so fucking done with maps lumping Central Europe into Eastern Europe. Like you wanna tell me that Austria, Greece, Finland are somehow not eastern but Czechia is. Or how sometimes the Baltics are not eastern but Hungary is.
In this thread: westerners telling me what I should think. Well gee, next time maybe tone down the imperialism a bit.
Finland and baltics are northern Europe, not eastern.
And yet few people would argue the same of Murmansk, mostly north of Helsinki. We really need to consider history here, as well. Specifically which side of the iron curtain they were on.
I think you might be mixing different things here, because it's fucked up shit
Northern Europe: British isles, Scandinavia, Finland, Baltics
Nordics: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Greenland, Iceland, Faraoe islands
Scandinavia: Sweden, Norway, Denmark
Scandinavian peninsula: Sweden, Norway, North-western Finland
Fennoscandia: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Murmansk oblast, parts of Karelia and Leningrad oblasts
And there's more stupid definitions for differently divided areas because fuck you
Oh, well sure. If you allow them to overlap there's no reason you can't be in both Northern and Eastern Europe.
Perhaps some kind of North-East.
Typical Europeans: colonizing this post about Africa to make it about themselves instead. \s
I mean, I am fucking done with maps portraying Europe as a continent. It is called Eurasia, you just like feeling extra special but geographically you are not 🤪
Based
Show me your continental plate, "Europe"
I've never heard anyone claim the Baltics are not Eastern Europe. Then again, I'm on a different continent.
As for the rest, it's all down to which side they were on/put in during the Cold War.
Austria is literally lumped into "Eastern Europe" on this map lol
No, it's not. That's why it has its own specific label...
I don't understand - Greece, EE and Austria are all clearly overlaid in top of each other in the same space. It makes no sense
They labelled those parts of the connected landmass with those separate labels so people wouldn't complain that some parts didn't belong to the culturally arbitrary grouping.
The point of the map is to demonstrate that Africa is larger than all of those geopolitically relevant areas, and those connected bits fit into the space so it was included. Don't think too much about it.
Eastern Europe is not real
Not in, like, the "there's nothing there" way, but in the "there's no substantive economic, social or geographic reasons to treat it as a cohesive region" way
I mean there is, its the old Soviet block countries, its just not really relevant anymore.
that's pretty angry